Director: Dan Bush
Writer: Dan Bush, Conal Byrne (Screenplay)
Starring: James Franco, Scott Haze, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood, Q’Oiranka Kilcher, Jeff Gum, Clifton Collins Jr
Plot: Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank.
Tagline – No one is safe.
Runtime: 1 Hour 31 Minutes
There may be spoilers the rest of the review
Verdict: Strangely Disappointing
Story: The Vault starts as three siblings Michael (Haze), Vee (Manning) and Leah (Eastwood) put together their team to get what seems like a perfect bank robbery done, to solve Michael’s personal problem. With the hostages locked up and the alarms dealt with things look like they are going smoothly, then they open the vault to discovery next to no money.
Assistant manager Ed Maas (Franco) offer to help get into the old vault, but this is where the terror begins because this bank has a history one, none of the robbers were prepared for.
Thoughts on The Vault
Characters – Vee is the fiery short tempered of the siblings, she will get the rest of the robbers in more trouble, this is a front to her own insecurity. Leah is the leader of the robbers, the calmer of the group that doesn’t go over the limits, until she does and we lose any support for this character, the one we are meant to be following. Michael is the brother who has gotten himself into trouble and needs the money to fix the problem, he wants to no one hurt mentality and seems to be the only good one of the group. Ed Maas is a man that was one of the hostages that offers to get the money for the robbers.
Performances – The cast here is confusing, because James Franco is fine, but completely looks out of place in this movie. When we see the sister performers which does work well together as you feel the strained relationship between them.
Story – The story is a bank robbery gone wrong, when are they not right? This time it goes wrong when it turns out the location the bank is haunted and now the spirits have returned. This could work for the most part but in the end it doesn’t deliver on the level it could do, mostly because we don’t seem to support anyone because they don’t dive into what Michael has done to need money, the two sisters both come off twisted and evil and the horror side is almost unwatchable.
Horror – This movie uses the horror to put a twist on the heist idea in the story, the horror side of the film is difficult to watch though as everything comes off just too dark.
Settings – The film is set inside the bank which keeps the story contained for where the events could go.
Special Effects – The effects are fine, we only get to see them used sparely which is nice to see when it comes to the horrors.
Scene of the Movie – Final twist.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – Too many difficult moments that don’t add up.
Final Thoughts – This is a disappointing horror that doesn’t scare us in anyway and has a complete by the book heist movie.
Overall: Lacklustre movie.
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