A high-end jewelry store robbery doesn’t sound like the perfect setting for love to begin, but somehow writer/director Simon Aboud makes it work in this excellent romantic thriller. The film stars Craig Roberts (Submarine) as Sam Smith as a gofer for the manager a local ritzy hotel. Although he’s clearly low man on the management totem pole, Sam dreams of bigger things, like owning his own restaurant with his mate, Elliot (Anthony Welsh). Until his ship comes in, though, Sam does what he’s told and it is while running an errand for the hotel to have an expensive watch repaired that he ends up a hostage in the robbery. What happens next is a delicate balancing act between the tense action of the crime and the more delicate blossoming of affection between Sam and the posh girl that works at the shop (Imogen Poots). In the hands of a less talented cast, it wouldn’t work, but the actors Aboud has assembled are at the top of their game, especially Timothy Spall as the store owner and Kevin McKidd as the robber.
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