Dir: Havana Marking
2013
***
Smash & Grab tells the story well and gets all the necessary inside intelligence for us to take it seriously but the very different styles used makes it look like 4 short documentaries glued together. It seems rushed. Insightful and interesting though, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it a lot but as helpful as the Yugoslavian history lesson was, it almost suggests that hard times is an acceptable excuse for crime. It's a reason, a very valid one, but it's not an excuse. The original Pink Panthers may not have killed anyone but the gangs that have come in their wake have and at the end of the day, stealing stuff that doesn't belong to you and pointing guns at people and threatening to shoot isn't cool and shouldn't be glamorised.
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