It’s only after you leave a job after so many years that you can look back and see that it really wasn’t what you thought it was. I would never have wanted to be stuck in a bank robbery, but one that is in a haunted bank… that’s double bad.
It’s the end of the day, the employees of Centurian Trust are about to close up for the day and go home. A few more customers come in last minute and the bank manager is meeting with a woman that hopes to be a potential employee. One of the customers that came in last minute is arguing with a clerk about some bounced checks. She makes a big scene and security has to be involved. As the bank manager goes to look in on the problem, guns are pulled and one of them is from the applicate for the job. They all find themselves in the middle of a bank robbery, and a high-pressure situation that is going to quickly go out of control.
The vault is opened, and there isn’t much money to be had. The robbers quickly realize they aren’t going to have enough money to pay off the debt that one of them has accrued and they begin to panic. One of the hostages speaks up and says that there is more money in another vault, in the basement of the bank. He helps the robbers disable the alarms and walks them through where the vault is, and what’s inside… six million dollars. However, they what they don’t realize is that the place and the vault specifically are haunted by the tragic story of what happened 30 plus years ago and that they are not alone in the building.
It’s weird to have an emotional reaction to movies, horror movies especially. Most movies I have a hard time identifying with anyone or anything in them. The Vault started off on that level and dragged me through it because of that initial response. I used to work in a credit union and was a head teller at one point. I only had to deal with a few irate and aggressive customers and I was lucky to have never had to deal with a robbery situation. It was something that everyone one of us thought about standing there with more money than most of us would make in a month in our hands every day… it’s part of the reason that I got away from that job. Anyway… it was a personal connection that I had from the start of this movie and quite possibly colored my enjoyment of it.
The Vault is wonderful even though it was mostly predictable. There is a lot of tension created in the robbery with so much being at stake for the participants. That alone has been the subject of countless movies, but when you add in that the bank or more specifically the vault itself is haunted, that’s a new twist I’m willing to sit in on. It’s well produced, well written and well acted. It’s just an all around good movie, once you get past the predictability. Then again, maybe it’s only because I have seen over two hundred movies in the last couple of years.
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