My review from a different thread (where I thought it should have been...):
Coin Heist is a Netflix original movie about a bunch of private school kids that make a run of error coins by breaking into the US Mint in order to save their school.
Aside from the wooden performances and implausible plot there is some decent coin stuff...
They show a public US Mint (Philadelphia) tour where they go directly onto the production floor which we all know wouldn't happen. The machinery is nowhere near prototypical and the processes are much simplified.
The sets are reused over and over. The school wood shop and one of the characters mechanical shop as well as a couple rooms in the "Mint" are obviously the same set redressed. Even the camera angles are the same.
They do a pretty decent job however with the protagonist coin, a "Wildlife Series" (created for the movie, based upon the Statehood and
ATB series) quarter for Michigan in which the add a fin to the fish design. They mention the Wisconsin
Statehood Quarter variety as the inspiration for their plot.
As for the movie as a whole, if I was not into coins I would have never watched it willingly. No one I ever heard of was in it and there were no "pretty people" or exciting action to catch the attention of the sex and violence crowd. There really was no other reason for me to bother than the coin aspect.
As for the coin topics it was mildly interesting but mostly lame. The premise was original but suffered from the tedious and boring production. With a decent cast and production values as well as better writing this could have been something good.
Overall I would give it 1 star of 4 and that is only due to the fact that I like coins.
* I did notice the hubs were correct, as verified by Dan Carr. I was surprised at that until I read that he worked with the film, which answers how the coin stuff is pretty much right on. With decent actors and script it would have been pretty good.
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Posted 02/01/2017 5:23 pm
