He joins the crew, which consists of a hacker, a getaway driver, the muscle and his recruiter as they go about robbing three banks across Europe, each more complex and dangerous than the last. She offers him “a life less ordinary.”ĭieter politely declines and goes back to his sad sandwiches. She proposes the heist of vaults built by the world’s greatest safe-maker, the last having 72 trillion possible combinations. “I’m the woman who’s going to change your life forever,” she says. Shay Hatten, who helped write “Army of the Dead,” gives us a story of a small-town bank clerk who lives his best life as a master safecracker in a previous robbery crew.ĭieter’s sad little life in Germany is cracked open when a mysterious woman (Nathalie Emmanuel, beguiling) recruits him - back then he’s Sabastian and hasn’t yet taken the name Dieter - to join their jet-setting ring. Instead, this is Dieter’s show - acted and directed with glee by Matthias Schweighöfer - with a plot that leads us right up to the time when he joins the gang of safe robbers in a very gnarly Las Vegas. But zombies aren’t really on the menu here. “Army of Thieves” takes place in the months before “Army of the Dead,” which was set in a Las Vegas overrun by a zombie apocalypse. Review: 'Army of Thieves' is oddball sidekick's hero quest
