dull and frequently inept caper film be never suspenseful and often seem to make little sense . caine be a veteran criminal who kill numerous people and seemingly for no other reason than to show what a dangerous bastard he be and to make the audience fear for the life of a chubby kid that the movie keep cut to . film star out with say chubby little boy stumble across a van with blood drip out of the back . caine pop up . warn the boy menacingly that he do not see a thing and give him a twenty pound note and send him on his way . the boy promptly go to school and tell everyone he come into contact with what he saw and but since he prone to exaggeration and tall tale nobody believe him . of course and since there no indication that caine clean up the crime scene and since the film take place not in a big city but in a more remote part of england and you would think something would turn up to corroborate the boy story . thing just get bad from there . initially the scene in shadow run seem so disconnected i think the director be film out of order ala pulp fiction . nope . michael caine character be at the heart of what wrong with the movie represent he a vet thief that who seem to kill someone in cold blood every twenty minute or so . at one point he admonish a confederate in the next job for try to figure out a way to pull off the robbery without kill any innocent people . what kind of thief want to kill if it isn not necessary . if caine be some twenty year old hothead you might be able to buy it and but a man in his late sixty . it hardly seem likely that caine character would live as long a he have or that anyone would want to work with or hire such a psycho . his character isn not believable and neither be this boring and dreadful film .