Earlier this year I had to drag myself reluctantly to watch Zack Snyder’s Vegas-set zombie-apocalypse Netflix movie Army of the Dead, but once on board I was a total convert, a new devotee of…
screenwriter Shay Hatten and also is a producer, clearly recognized the international crossover potential of Schneighöfer, who has been a star for some time in his native country and even directed a six pack of movies. He definitely has the chops and style to pull this one off, not only as star but also behind the camera with a lusciously shot European-set romp that doesn’t break new ground in the heist-movie universe but nevertheless marches to its own beat with a large degree of success.
Schneighöfer’s Sebastian Schlecht-Wohnert, as we meet him, is a bored bank teller whose big hobby and interest is the art of safecracking. He shares this passion on his own YouTube videos, and the film begins with one of those as he explains his admiration for Hans Wagner , who legendarily created four impossible-to-penetrate safes all based on the Wagnerian opera Ring Cycle.
He surmises that three of them are known to exist in Paris , Prague and St. Moritz Switzerland . The whereabouts of the fourth, the Gotterdammerung, remains something of a mystery. Gwendoline is the ringleader of a burgeoning group of international thieves determined to find someone to help crack these safes , and she lures Schlencht-Wohnert to a safecracking competition he enters and actually wins.
Schneighöfer clearly knows what is required of the genre, but in the end it is his goofy, nerdish charm, romantic longings for Gwendoline and ability to bounce back against Cage and evade Delacroix that keep us engaged with him throughout. Yes, we see the connections to where he will eventually get involved in the zombie wars ofeven with a couple of cameos at the end, but this prequel truly stands on its own as a swell introduction to an irresistible movie character.
It is a lot of fun, and all the production credits are aces including the score from Hans Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro, cinematography from Bernhard Jasper and snappy editing by Alexander Berner. Producers are Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Dan Maag and Schweighöfer. Check out my video review with scenes from the film at the link above. Netflix begins streaming it on Friday.
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