【英语时差8,16】令人一头雾水的「偷天密码」

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In the crime thriller¹ "The Code," veteran thief Keith Ripley (Morgan Freeman) recruits younger crook² Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas) to help him pull off a heist in order to repay a debt to the Russian mob.

Radha Mitchell plays the role of Alex, Ripley's goddaughter. She develops a romantic liaison³ with Gabriel that creates friction⁴ between the thieves, who form a bond despite their frequent squabbles.

Ripley has no shortage of cool gadgets⁵ and high-tech⁶ spying and thieving devices－the sign of every well-to-do crook －which builds anticipation⁷ for a truly outstanding heist.

The actual robbery scene, however, is not entirely⁸ plausible⁹. How Ripley and Gabriel manage to sneak¹⁰ in a code-cracking instrument the size of a construction drill is beyond comprehension. And why they still had to guess what seem to have been dozens of code combinations to open the vault¹¹ makes their effort in sneaking¹² in the heavy gizmo even more pointless.

The audience gets some comic relief as we see Gabriel using his gloved fingers to slide himself ever so lightly across the floor of a heavily alarmed vault while laying flat atop a rolling board. Surely a cooler entrance would have been warranted to steal the world's most precious jewels.

While not the most brilliant heist film, the combination of Freeman and Banderas still makes it enjoyable.