Despite the occasional dumb fun -- especially with the heist portions -- the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk.
Connor was behind bars at the time of the Gardner heist--for another art heist--but claimed he could locate the art if released.
The Italian media have described the heist as a paramilitary-style operation that brought something of the Wild West to the autostrada.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, who called the theft "a massive 21st-century bank heist, " announced the case Thursday in New York.
'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films.
The brazen heist is Europe's highest-value and most dramatic tarmac holdup in a decade, said aviation security specialists.
Ten years after the world-record-setting diamond heist in Antwerp, this week's diamond robbery is a sharp reminder that sophisticated criminal outfits are still out there and that even the most impressive security system could have unnoticed holes.
He said it was a "big surprise" that such a slick heist been possible -- but pointed the finger at organized crime.
But there is a flaw in every great heist which none of the films ever seem to acknowledge - despite the huge risks the criminals take and the value of the stolen art, they never make much money.
The precision of the Brussels heist suggests extensive help from airport insiders, said air-security experts, who noted that all airports employ thousands of low-paid workers and face high staff turnover.
Following the heist, the men quit their delivery jobs, purchased diamond-studded Yankee earrings and matching cars, and then were promptly apprehended when the hastily-wrapped reams of paper they sent instead of the phones were spotted in Cathay.
That's where Parker's former comrades in crime are planning an elaborate jewel heist, and where the movie takes a belly whopper into low-tide absurdity by introducing, and constantly leering at, a near-penniless real estate agent named Leslie, who is played by Jennifer Lopez.
It doesn't cover any life insurance payouts - and now that Heist is not, in fact, dead, the life insurance company will want their money back.
Oddly enough, the teen in question jacked the console and left the oh-so-critical power cable behind, but instead of devising yet another heist, he simply phoned Microsoft, gave out all his credentials (including the machine's serial number), and awaited the cable.
ENGADGET: New Zealand teen jacks Xbox 360, divulges credentials to Microsoft
Ranta's second-degree murder conviction stemmed from the 1990 killing of a rabbi during a diamond heist.
Perhaps it is a bank heist of sorts, in the frantic run up this week and next to the Brussels summit in on 8-9 December, where the 27 Eurozone leaders are expected to make some binding, if not bold, decisions.
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