The Jokers On the wave of success of How to Steal a Million, a film about a serious robbery was quickly made, presented by two brothers as another mischievous antics. These two are kind of together, but the competition is too high and they often try to catch each other.
Only here is what to do if the Tower of London is robbed, the Crown Jewels are in the hands of unknown people, and the main suspect is one of the brothers. The other seems violently settling scores with him. But after all, they are relatives!
As far as I understand it, Michael Winner sought to create a graceful, adventurous comedy about people who don't really care about money. Heroes are so rich and spoiled that robbery is considered by them as another life challenge.
While Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford may be charismatic, the lack of detail has weakened the film. An adventure game is played out in front of the viewer, but it is simply uninteresting to follow it due to its predictability. Yes - prank robbers, yes - a major robbery, yes - investigation. But all these things put together don’t work. The heap of events here unfortunately did not create the necessary balance.
At the same time, it is difficult to consider this tape frankly failed, especially against the background of then analogues. Bright finale, involving the symbols of Britain, pulls the picture to the average level
5 out of 10