![]() Season 3 is exactly this! Perhaps WAY DOWN’s screenwriters were working on this film while the MONEY HEIST team was working on theirs. The bigger similarity, though, is with the Netflix series MONEY HEIST. Now where have we seen this before? Of course, there are the natural comparisons to the OCEAN’S films and even Thom comments on that connection. Wanting to coincide their heist with the 2010 World Cup Final when thousands of Madrid’s football fans will gather outside the bank by la Fuente de Cibeles, this city’s most famous fountain, to watch the game on big screens, the team immediately goes to work but, of course, they have their share of impossible challenges along the way, including trying to outsmart the bank’s diligent security chief, Gustavo Medina (Jose Coronado), who doesn’t let his guard down for one moment. But Thom is intrigued by Moreland’s offer of unimaginable riches – even though Thom seemingly comes from a wealthy family – and the prospect of doing something exciting after graduation. That’s Cambridge University engineering student Thom Laybrick (Freddie Highmore, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY TV’s THE GOOD DOCTOR), who is such a whizz at problem solving, companies are falling over themselves trying to recruit him. Moreland has done his homework though, and he realises that there’s only one possible person who could figure out how to get them in and out of the vault safely. No problem getting it out, right? Well, slight problem because the vault is connected to a water tank that opens up and floods the chamber should the vault’s security get breached. No sooner has he and his team – comprising former British MI5 (or maybe MI6, I can’t remember, not that it’s important) operative, James (Sam Riley, the MALEFICENT films RADIOACTIVE), Spanish logistics guy Simon (Luis Tosar, MIENTRAS DUERMES), German computer hacker extraordinaire Klaus (Axel Stein) and pan-European art expert and master of cheap wig wearing Lorraine (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD) – come upon a sunken Spanish galleon laden with gold and other precious items, then the Spanish customs authorities swoop down on their boat and confiscate the bounty, depositing it into one of the world’s most impregnable vaults, located way down inside the bowels of the Bank of Spain in Madrid. Walter Moreland (Liam Cunningham, TV’s GOT) is a modern-day treasure hunter. With WAY DOWN (also known as THE VAULT), Spanish filmmaker Jaume Balagueró (three of the four films) has decided to throw his hat into the ring with a film that features a multinational cast and an alphabet soup of screenwriters. Sure, they’re rather formulaic but they can be a lot of fun to watch if they’re done right… IF they’re done right. Netflix at this time has not released any viewing data for the movie, and it is unlikely that it will do so given the streamer's secrecy surrounding viewing numbers.There has been no shortage of heist films over the years with directors from all over the world trying their hand at making one. 1, Outer Banks, the hit Netflix original series that just debuted its second season. On Netflix's overall streaming chart for both movies and series, The Vault sits at No. ![]() 1 placeholder Blood Red Sky having been pushed all the way back to No. ![]() It falls just behind The Losers, with the previous No. As of this posting, the film, just four days new to the platform, ranks No. The film has the alternative title Way Down and is a joint US distributed venture between Paramount and Saban films.įollowing its Netflix premiere on July 31, The Vault garnered some pretty impressive success on the platform. Along with Highmore, The Vault also stars Ghislain Barrois, Álvaro Augustin, Francisco Sanchez Ortiz, and Eneko Lizarraga. With the country distracted by Spain's World Cup Final and security forces closing in, Thom and his crew of master thieves have just minutes to pull off the score of a lifetime. The Jaume Balagueró-directed film follows Highmore's Thom, an engineer who devises a sneaky heist after learning a legendary lost treasure is temporarily being held in an impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain. ![]()
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