Tuesday – Tuesday (2008)

Directed by: Sacha Bennett | 80 minutes | action, thriller, crime | Actors: Philip Glenister, John Simm, Ashley Walters, Cristian Solimeno, Kevin McNally, Dylan Brown, Gregor Truter, James Barriscale, Richard Brown, Kate Magowan, Kirsty Mitchell, Alex MacQueen, Sal Esen, Roger Layton, Veronica Brown, Mick Barber, Lucy Burns, Linal Haft, Emil Marwa, Beth Goddard, Jonathan Parsons, Marina Fiorato, David Garry, Catherine Locardi, Andy Cody, James Millman, Paul Fournel, Nigel Bliss, Jim Alexander, Brian Bosley, Dell Taylor

Just any town somewhere in England has been ravaged for months by a group of experienced bank robbers. The men work with the perfect schedule and always manage to empty the safe in record time. Police Chief Thomas is puzzled and puzzled that he can’t get a hold of them. But they have to make a mistake at some point. After all, everyone gets sloppy over time.

One day, the bank robbers decide to crack a local bank, where an emerald with a value of a few million is currently being kept. The preparations go smoothly as always, but when the time comes, not everything goes according to plan. It turns out that there are other robbers who want to set up a heist on exactly the same day. Soon everything goes wrong and everyone is actually arrested. However, the emerald is missing. At headquarters, it’s up to detectives Jerry and Thomas to find out exactly what happened.

‘Tu£sday’ is a bit of a cross between your average whodunnit and a ‘Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ type film. The cursing, flat-talking Brits and the funny, empty discussions are certainly reminiscent of it. However, ‘Tu£sday’ lacks the characters that ‘Lock Stock’ does have. The storyline of ‘Tu£sday’ is also very complex with several flashforwards and flahbacks. Fragments of the robbery are interspersed with scenes in which suspects are interrogated. Every now and then your head turns to who was where at what time. That is also a bit of a minus. At times the film is simply unwatchable.

The common thread, or rather the motto of ‘Tu£sday’, is the fact that just about all the characters seem to hate their jobs. While in the beginning only the members of the gang were suspected, doubt soon creeps in about the intentions of other people present on that Tuesday in question. What about that cashier who was promised that nice promotion? And what about businessman William, who wants to divorce his wife and needs money? And that bank manager is also suspicious. The big question: Don’t you hate your job, and if you had the chance to rake in a few million emeralds, would you?

‘Tu£sday’ is definitely a movie worth watching. There is no high threshold, it is suitable for every audience and it is nice to look away. With many films in the genre you see at some point how the fork is in the stem, but with ‘Tu£sday’ the ending really comes as a surprise. A nice evening of TV fun.