Crime Experts Rate 24 Cons And Heists In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Former criminals and investigators rate crimes in movies and television shows for realism.
Lee Thompson, a master pickpocket who has worked with the UK police and Revenue and Customs in public-awareness campaigns about pickpocketing, rates pickpocketing techniques in "Ocean's Eleven," starring Matt Damon, and "Killing Eve," starring Sandra Oh.
John Pennisi is a former made member of the Lucchese crime family who, after feeling he was betrayed by the family, cooperated with the FBI and became a government witness. Pennisi rates "The Sopranos," starring James Gandolfini, and "The Godfather," starring Al Pacino and Marlon Brando.

Cain Vincent Dyer is a motivational speaker and a former bank robber. He says he robbed over 100 banks across California between 1999 and 2001 before turning himself in, pleading guilty to six robberies, and serving nine years in prison. He rates bank-robbery scenes in "Money Heist" and "The Dark Knight."

Charlie Santore, a professional safecracker and locksmith, rates safecracking scenes in "The Italian Job," starring Mark Wahlberg, and "Ant-Man," starring Paul Rudd.

Mark Silverman, formerly associated with the Irish mob in Boston, rates Irish mob scenes in "The Departed," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon; "The Town," starring Ben Affleck; and "Black Mass," starring Johnny Depp.

Brian Stanton, a casino executive and table-games-security expert, rates art- and diamond-heist scenes in "The Hangover," starring Zach Galifianakis, and "Casino," starring Robert De Niro.
Octave Durham, a former thief, and Arthur Brand, an art detective, rate casino-heist scenes in "Black Panther," starring Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan, and "Ocean's 8," starring Sandra Bullock.
Tatsuya Shindo, a pastor who was in the yakuza for 15 years, rates yakuza scenes in "Avengers: Endgame" and "Deadpool 2," starring Ryan Reynolds.

Lee Thompson

John Pennisi

Charlie Santore

Brian Stanton

Octave Durham

Arthur Brand

Tatsuya Shindo

Intro: 0:00-0:46
Pickpocket: 0:46-7:21
The Mafia: 7:21-10:55
Safecracking: 10:55-19:14
Boston Organized Crime: 19:14-27:03
Bank Robbery: 27:03-34:55
Yakuza: 34:55-39:20
Art and Diamond Heists: 39:20-45:54
Casino Heists: 45:54-54:49

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Crime Experts Rate 24 Cons And Heists In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

[BloodLotu]

That one man with over 100 banks robbed in 2 years and didn't get caught, instead turned himself in. Absolute madlad.

[TrundleTheGreat]

I love how the Yakuza guy is like "I didn't cut my finger off in such a cool way." Then goes on to describe a way cooler way of doing it...also way more intense and crazy.

[RankSarpac]

I love how Tatsuya Shindo was just straight up like, "You are awarded zero style points, this is ridiculous." A chisel and hammer, gimme a break... that is the hardest bastard I've ever seen.

[creep]

I really wonder where Insider gets all of the ex-con, like "Hey, I heard you're a bad person before, care to join us and rate some movie scenes"

[jmutube]

37:51 The *_yakuza guy_* talking about _yubitsume_ and then showing his cut finger, then how he cut it _really_ got me.

[rosgill]

every expert: "this is terrible"
the one British expert: "Brilliant!"

[KenMikaze]

An ex-Yakuza member calling a Deadpool movie absurd, is definitely spot-on. Deadpool is indeed absurd even in the Marvel Universe.

[Maazzzo]

Please enable captions. I cannot be your only deaf fan. I'd have definitely preferred a sequel to one of these videos rather than a compilation of all the vids I've seen.
**Edit- captions now seem to be working, thank you!**

[cjj]

"There's no way you would take a sword inside a bath. That would ruin the sword right away."

[Polymathically]

I worked in banking for over a decade, most of which involved branch ops, vault keeping, and audits. When asked if I ever was tempted to pull a vault heist using my knowledge, I always said no. Robbing a bank is one thing. _Getting away with it_ is something else entirely. I've written whole essays explaining how it ridiculously difficult it would be. The most realistic movie bank heist is in Dog Day Afternoon, because (aside from it being based on a true story) they fail almost _immediately._

[DeputatKaktus]

Fun fact: in many movies, whenever there are piles of gold bars / ingots depicted, they are almost always stacked the wrong way up, with the actual bottom side facing up. Gold is pretty heavy and a single standard ingot like the ones I think they want to depict at 34:15 could easily weigh like 25 to 30 lbs if not more. With the wide side facing up, you have a far better grip than if you have to lift it up just by the edges. 

Especially if you lift an ingot from a flat surface. It can be done with practice, but it is difficult. Very niche issue to have but still.

[Clown_Wizard]

The break dancing heist from Ocean’s 12 is still, to this day, the most insultingly ludicrous thing I’ve ever seen a movie try to sell to an audience. They even said in the movie the laser patterns were random, which made it so much worse.

[MrAlfable]

Holy crap the way the Yakuza talks about cutting off his finger like its just a funny childhood memory!

[Butterratbee]

I love the casino guy pointing out that they can just make you leave the casino if you’re making too much money, you’re not doing anything illegal, they just want you to leave

[joshhorne]

The art thief and art detective was my favorite part I think it’d be cool to retrieve stolen artifacts and return to the rightful owner like they did with the Ethiopian artifact

[pdayungog]

I love the locksmith guy because he just really loves his safes and knows them to the tee. A nerd on the art of cracking safes and safe knowledge. Love it lmao seems like such a mellow dude

[BtheLee]

yakuza man opens with "i like bath houses", and then we get to hear about the time he chiseled his finger off and how others do it. Neato

[BigSwagThaLionTamer]

As a former bank employee, my one disagreement is around 33 minutes he said only specific employees had silent alarms, but at least at our bank, every employee had their own silent alarm and access to 1 or 2 more within arms' reach at all times.

[donaldmacarthur]

I particularly enjoyed having the art thief & art detective narrate together... that was fantastic!

[ColinGrym]

16:00 The story about the Blockbuster safe is fantastic. I would love to have seen the owner's reaction when he finished that particular job.