Review: 'No Ordinary Heist' Explores 2004 Belfast Bank Robbery

No Ordinary Heist review – Eddie Marsan stars in Belfast true-crime thriller about massive bank robbery

Marsan is an odd choice for the role of an uptight bank manager compelled to cooperate with robbers in this underpowered take on a real-life bank raid in 2004 Given that this Belfast-set true-crime thriller is based on real-life events from 2004, it sounds like something that might have made a gripping, splashy top-tier feature. But instead this feels underpowered and apologetic, clumsily assembled and blandly directed by Colin McIvor, whose filmography of TV and low-budget comedies doesn’t i...

By Leslie Felperin