Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers

Name: Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
Genre: History, Thriller, Crime, Documentary
Released: July 31, 2013
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 66

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| Release Date: July 31, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: In their own words and with unprecedented access, the most successful jewel thieves of all time take you into their world: the post-Milosovic Balkans, the modern diamond trade and a 21st Century crime gang. But as the thieves brazenly commit their crimes across the world - Europe, Asia and UEA - Interpol and global police forces areIn their own words and with unprecedented access, the most successful jewel thieves of all time take you into their world: the post-Milosovic Balkans, the modern diamond trade and a 21st Century crime gang. But as the thieves brazenly commit their crimes across the world - Europe, Asia and UEA - Interpol and global police forces are tightening their grip. As many of the criminals responsible are caught and extradited, the film asks: Is this the end of the Pink Panthers?… Expand

Director: Havana Marking

Genre(s): History, Thriller, Crime, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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The Guardian Mike McCahill

Sep 26, 2013

The casefile remains open, but this considered investigation matches the Panthers' bravura with an organisational flair of its own. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Aug 21, 2013

The world's most successful ring of diamond thieves is inventively and insightfully explored in the documentary Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Aug 1, 2013

The movie's most exciting when the precision and jaw-dropping nerve of the gang holds center stage. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jul 30, 2013

Smash and Grab has a grating, repetitive score and can look a little homely on the big screen. But unlike many true-crime accounts, it cherry-picks its material successfully and preserves the conspiratorial sense that we’re learning the ins and outs of an illicit art. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jul 31, 2013

You can’t make this stuff up. But Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers would be fascinating even if it wasn’t so timely. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Aug 22, 2013

It’s a fascinating inside look, made all the more thrilling by Marking’s access to actual Pink Panthers. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jul 30, 2013

Coupled with a failure to comprehensively detail tactical patterns or the processes of transporting or fencing stolen goods, Smash & Grab’s inability to truly get underneath the surface of its subjects renders it merely a compelling true-life tale in need of better telling. Read full review

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eplo

Oct 4, 2013

Marking fumbled with an excellent topic and focused too much on the background of players in the game rather than the actual interesting thieves and robbers stuff we pay to see. The marketing team lured me in well, and the first and last 20 minutes delivers with the fantastical insight intoMarking fumbled with an excellent topic and focused too much on the background of players in the game rather than the actual interesting thieves and robbers stuff we pay to see. The marketing team lured me in well, and the first and last 20 minutes delivers with the fantastical insight into the processes of the Pink Panthers...it's all of that filler in between that becomes tiresome quickly. The general history of Serbia and the regional struggle could have been compressed into 15 minutes and still had a great impact.

Overall, I expected many more heists (the movie shows 4 I believe) and a lot more detail into the law enforcement explanation of why they do what they do (they always hold the door open during heists, why is this?) and the measures the Pink Panthers take to prevent capture (disguises, etc.). Vaguely entertaining.… Expand

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