Stolen: Heist Of The Century

Netflix trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_kYC14TTM

This is my recommendation of the weekend.

It's a documentary, but it's only one ninety minute episode long, in other words it's neither a big commitment nor a slog, you can start it on a whim and finish it shortly thereafter.

There are a few re-enactments, which usually rub me the wrong way, but what you've got here most is talking heads.

NO, NO, NO! Don't let that turn you off. They don't opine ad infinitum, they just tell the story.

So what we've got here is a legendary diamond heist in Antwerp back in 2003. Will you remember it from the news? Probably not, but that makes no difference.

The first focus is on how they did it. After all, it is diamonds, and Antwerp is the diamond capital of the world, and the building is dedicated to diamond dealers with a locked vault in the basement... And being diamonds, you can imagine the security!

So everybody involved is completely flummoxed. The crime appears impossible. But then there are some breaks.

So what you've got here is a twenty first century doc. You know, with cinematic bells and whistles, the split-screen and other effects that can be overdone but are used in just the right amount here to keep the story flowing. But as the story unfolds...you start to ask yourself, what's so special about this?

Which is why you have to watch to the very very end.

Having said that, these are the real people involved. The cops are especially interesting. As for the criminal...

I won't say you'll be thinking about this documentary for days, but you won't forget it or the questions it raises just after it ends.

Finish this and you'll dig this.


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