Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Through candid interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina's most notorious bank heist detail how — and why — they carried out the radical 2006 operation.
This Netflix documentary about the 2006 Banco Río heist in Acassuso, Argentina offers an entertaining and candid account directly from the perpetrators themselves. The story is genuinely compelling — the robbers dug a tunnel, took hostages, and escaped via inflatable boats through a sewer — giving the narrative a natural thriller quality. However, the cinematography is fairly standard talking-heads documentary fare with basic reconstructions. The acting category applies loosely to the interview subjects' on-screen presence, which is uneven. The novelty is modest — heist documentaries exist in abundance, though the specific Argentine political undertones and the audacity of the real crime give it some distinction. The ending is satisfying given the known outcome but not revelatory.