Money Movers

1978

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1089 1.1K

armored car armed robbery

Plot summary

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

Director

Bruce Beresford Photo
Bruce Beresford

Top cast

Bryan Brown Photo
Bryan Brown as Brian Jackson
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell Photo
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Jack Henderson
Ray Meagher Photo
Ray Meagher as First Guard
Brian Anderson Photo
Brian Anderson as Technician
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
859.79 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
1.73 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by powerplay

For fans of "The Great Bookie Robbery" & Aussie Nostalgia

You can almost smell the sweat and testosterone !This is a movie for the blokes. It's full of tough blokes, violent blokes, bossy blokes, union blokes, angry blokes and blokes who tell the sheilas to go away and let the blokes get on with important blokey business.Hugely talented Australian cast with an equally talented director. This is what Aussie society was like before we all became middle-class and comfortable.Oh, the plot? Crooked blokes are practically lining up to rob an armoured-car security firm. The siege mentality builds as the story progresses, as the company tries to work out where the next hit is coming from.If I had to pick a fault, it was sometimes hard working out who was double-crossing who, some of the dialogue was up to "Law and Order" fast snappy talking standard, but it mostly all makes sense towards the end.Three stand-out treats - 1. Jeanie Drynan (the mum from Muriel's Wedding) looking very trim & terrific, not at all like the side of a house.2. The Beaurepaires Tyre man playing a sadistic henchman. (He played a similar scary character in Mad Max).3. Lucky Grils being excellent light relief as a "Bluey" character.It was also interesting seeing a young Bryan Brown (un-imaginatively cast as "Brian" !) playing against (later) type ie having a lack of confidence and really feeling the pressure, almost the opposite of his roles in "Cocktail" and "Risk".So crack open a beer, send the wife out of the room, turn up the volume and enjoy this under-rated Aussie movie.
Reviewed by runamokprods 7 / 10

Tense, violent, well made Australian crime thriller

The story of an armored car robbery, apparently based on a true case. The acting is solid and the action, especially for a small budget film, is deftly handled, There are a number of good twists and turns along the way. On the other hand, there's a bit of a feeling something's missing, like a unifying theme or underlying ideas. Or even character development. Unlike (for example) Ben Affleck's recent The Town", this is a pretty simple film, just telling you an exciting story as solid B movie entertainment, and not aiming for much more. But there's certainly room for that alongside more 'thoughtful' or character orientated crime flicks. Well shot, well directed by a young Bruce Beresford, and worth seeing if you're a fan of the genre.
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