Synopsis
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
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Cast
- Matthias SchweighöferLudwig Dieter
- Nathalie EmmanuelGwendoline
- Ruby O. FeeKorina
- Stuart MartinBrad Cage
- Guz KhanRolph
- Jonathan CohenDelacroix
- Noémie NakaiBeatrix
- Christian SteyerHans Wagner
- Dan BradfordBig Tough Guy
- Tonya GravesBasement McGee
Recommendations
- 75
The Associated Press
It’s a film no one really demanded and yet is loads of fun. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The storytelling overall is less sophisticated, leaning a little too often on strained humor, but this is a slick, enjoyably playful entertainment. - 67
IndieWire
Army of Thieves is content to dig into its heist DNA over everything else (including, unfortunately, the rom-com sensibility it seeks between Sebastian and Gwendoline). That means unique, clever heists on a fast rotation, big twists, and major revelations, and some genuinely accomplished chase scenes. - 60
Total Film
Lacking Snyder’s directorial dab hand, Army of Thieves is still a fun heist movie that makes an already likeable character even better. - 60
Variety
Army of Thieves is one of those bombastically blithe and fanciful Netflix action movies, in this case with a romantic heart. - 50
IGN
While not without charm, the biggest factors working against Army of Thieves are a confused hybrid of horror and heist genre stories and an approach making it unclear which audience – other than the most ardent of Zack Snyder fans – it’s aimed at. - 42
The A.V. Club
The idea of a group of decidedly minor-league cons trying to make it into the major leagues, maybe with a Now You See Me standard of realism, is not unappealing. But the promise of a brainless good time proves false once the actual thieving begins. - 40
TheWrap
Army of Thieves, a by-the-numbers heist movie and prequel to Zack Snyder’s gloomy zombie caper “Army of the Dead,” traces over that previous movie without ever improving or even just replicating its lighter elements, especially its chases and safecracking shenanigans.
