Suspense before heist

Sexy Beast (2000)

This film is not your usual heist movie where the character spend a lifetime to pull it through. Even though the plot is thin, it makes up by the ability to maintain and keeping you on your toes trying to figure out how the movie would progress. Being a Spanish-English joint venture, there is a lot of sunbathing and cockney accent to lace the show.

Gal is a ex-bank robber who is retired from his trade and nicely leading a quiet life in his Spanish hacienda with his ex-porn star wife, Deedee, friend and his wife, Jackie.

The seemingly idyllic life is shattered by the arrival of a sociopath ex-colleague, Logan (Ben Kingsley).

Logan recruits and he want Gal for a massive heist in London. Logan, being the sociopath that he is, just does not want to take no for an answer. He uses his devious methods and blackmails to this end. Jackie, the friend's wife, apparently had had a fling with Logan.

This forms the crux of the story rather than the heist itself.

Something happens in the final showdown and we are left to wonder when Gal is in London meeting with the crime bosses. They tunnel into a bank vault through a neighbouring steam bath shop.

We later find that Logan is buried under the house swimming pool!

Quite a gripping story, able to hold the suspense!

Sexy Beast (Urban Dictionary)

An irresistible man's man who seduces women with his witticisms and more notably with his extraordinarily handsome yet bestial looks. This beast-like man is the envy of all other men and the desire of all women and lives solely for hedonistic pleasure only.

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