Master Safecracker Rates 10 Safecracking Heists In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2021
- Safe technician Charlie Santore looks at 10 safecracking scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism. Santore owns Santore & Son Lock and Safe in Los Angeles.
He looks at "Army of the Dead" (2021), "Ant-Man" (2015), "The Italian Job" (2003), "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), "Money Heist" S1E1 (2017), "Cradle 2 the Grave" (2003), "Batman Forever" (1995), "The Thieves" (2012), "King of Thieves" (2018), and "Thief" (1981).
Are safecrackers insular geniuses? Do you have to have absolute silence to open a safe? How complicated are some vaults, and do they use a lot of security traps? Can you really guess a combination in 30 minutes?
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This guy is such a master, even his voice is cracked.
UNDERRATED COMMENT
Very underrated comment
His voice like he talking too much and ran out of breath
like Adam Levine?
True, but he cracks it safely.
Insider could put a crew together if they wanted.
Armed bank heists, money laundering, cracking the safe, get away driver, an alibi for why they were researching it all… they are set!
Who’s to say they haven’t already. What’s that saying again. The greatest crimes ever committed are the ones you never know about. Something like that
Underated comment
Comment of the year
gold comment
the fact this guy was so harsh with majority of his ratings not only showed how inaccurate theywhere but really hits home how good a job the ones that he rated high did
*"If DMX shows up at your house with a bazooka to open your vault... your problem's getting out of hand.."*
_-Charlie Santore, Safe Technician, 2021_
Get more experts like this guy. A lot of the time they'll go "Nothing about this is realistic in any way...6/10."
This dude gives no quarter!
He gives almost a third.
It gets pretty tiresome how critical he is, a lot of other experts featured on this show understand that these aren’t intended to be 100% accurate.
@@giraffe357 Um. Isn’t the point for him to rate how accurate something is? Regardless of the filmmakers intention?
@@giraffe357 The entire purpose of the show is expertise critique
so you only pay attention to the final rating and not what they say before that?
His ratings are harsh but accurate. The other raters are being far too generous because they don't want hate. This guy literally gives no Fs. True master.
Technically, he gave a lot of F's here.
It htink it's just that in safe cracking in particular movies are more inaccurate than in the other topics.
He isn't harsh. I've read interviews of movies who had experts, but the producers were like don't make it too accurate. Due to liability.
Hot wiring a car for instance is what comes to mind. I think some company was sued for teaching people. If you notice they still use red and blue wires in modern cars and I honestly don't think that is a thing anymore.
So yeah they always are careful.
Theure not accurate when he says in one clip that ya can't do it in 30 min. Then the next clip he says the opposite.
His realism is 2/10
He says that the guy couldn't do 4 locks in 30 minutes, in the next clip he says that somebody who can manipulate well can open something (so a single lock) in 30-45 minutes. Don't see the contradiction.
When he said "DMX rest in peace"....I automatically gave this video a thumbs up and became a fan of him.
I was not ready for Charlie Santore to pay his respects to DMX, but I give him a 10/10 for that move
"Just to be generous, we'll give it a three"
I do not want this man to be my professor. I'd failed his class for sure
If you don't know the answers you don't get points, brutally efficient!
I WANT this guy to be my professor; why not learn from the best!
Kinda sad, too, because I've re-watched _The Italian Job_ 2003 recently and afterwards watched the featurette on the safe expert the production consulted. I think it's a mix of the expert being assured during production that their techniques are accurate and of peers in their field who weren't consulted having different opinions.
*I'd fail
Repent to Jesus Christ!!!!!
His brutal honesty about the poorly done heist scenes lent a lot of credibility to the better done ones, and I really appreciate that. I feel like the experts don't want to be too harsh, even though they do provide great input about the reality of the situation. I'm definitely gonna watch a documentary about the Hutton Garden heist, given his enthusiasm for it. 10/10 would hire this guy to crack my cheap safe just to talk to him.
I remember when that heist went down it was like a real life Ocean's Eleven or something
The Hutten Garden heist was called "the last gasp of good old-fashioned British villiany". And is def worth finding more about
One of them still hasn't been caught to this day 🤠
I agree a lot of professionals come on here and say seven after say the clip is complete bullshit but like his rating seemed very consistent I believed what he said
The movie was a hilarious comedy at times.
Deadly booby traps were common at one point in history. We were remodeling a very old building in the downtown of a small city and the prior owners had left several safes. One of which was locked so we had a local lock smith open it. It was empty all except the glass vials attached to the door which was a booby trap. He said it was inert chemical that was like pepper spray but when we researched the safe we found it could have contained one of 2 dangerous chemicals. One was a very deadly gas that was used in the 1st world war that could spread into the public. $10,000 later the owners had it removed by professionals but we had to secure the building by for several days till the experts got there.
By far the best series that this channel does. People innately gravitate towards people who are masters of their craft, learning from them and enjoy the insights that they have gained from honing their techniques.
yea but can this guy maybe clear his throat? 😮💨
"He's reading the 'paper', that's pretty accurate." Well, I guess every job needs its part of fun.
I was going to mention that quote too, and this is the first comment I see
For the articles
I’d like to point out, among all the Bonds, Lazenby banged the most girls in a single movie. Facts.
Ah, yes, The Playboy Times. Their motto: All the Nudes That's Fit to Print.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc "Entertainment for men"
These ratings are BRUTAL compared to many other experts of their field.
Its fair enough ....
This is how it should be
Well most of it is unrealistic, fair rating
@@chanuki2195 if only I qualified it saying compared TO OTHER EXPERTS.....
Qualified? U mean clarified?
I’ve worked in tech support for a Safe manufacturer for 20 years. His analysis is spot on. I am pretty sure I have spoken with him or his techs before working on our products.
"4 locks in 30 minutes. You would bring a boring crew" The you hear in the background, "This is the lockpicking lawyer and what I have for you today is a 4 lock vault door".
This guy is like my dad rating my life and career. "I want to be generous so i will give a 2.75/10 "
HAHAHAHAHA!!! This comment is gold.
@@OfficialMyxomatosis thanks 😊
Damn this made me laugh
@@imadeyoureadthis1 hehe. thanks
My wife rating my hog. "I want to be generous so I will give it 2.75inches out of 10"
This man has:
-slenderman's body
-the voice of an annoyed grandpa
-the knowledge of the lockpickinglawyer
Agree on the first two but highly doubt the last one, it's the other Way around.
-and a history with Jungian analysis.
Yeah a expert hahaha
I started to wonder if LPL is off camera just telling this guy what to say. Haha
@@amirmoezz yeah I agree. LPL picks locks for the sport. This guy is paid to just break in as quickly as possible, and that usually involves power tools.
This was like the most legit one of these videos I've seen, and I just watched the one where the Yakuza had his pinkie cut off. He brought research and tools to the shoot. Something tells me this was like a grueling 8 hour shoot they edited down to 18 minutes, and the whole crew are now certified vault technicians.
"To open 4 locks in half an hour is... pure fantasy"
The Lock Picking Lawyer: "Am I a joke to you???"
LPL: Actually fine tuning the old style autodialer to cut a few hours from the process.
Picking a lock is different from cracking a safe though
@@foxbutterfly-eden8715 which has nothing to do with the original comment
As an ex-Blockbuster employee: anything left behind that creates questions and mystery was fully intentional. Our store was stripped bare during a closing sale so a lot of fully strange things we forgot we hid inside pillars and under cabinets surfaced and it was genuinely hilarious and sad at the same time.
Don't talk crap
I miss blockbuster..streaming is kool but there was something about walking the aisle to pick a movie with friends on a Friday night or renting the newest video game before having to buy it
Okay, but you can't just tell us this, and NOT go into details. We need to know!
@@yourfriendlycap5489 +1
@@mojomanrosie it was more exciting since it wasn't at the push of the button in the palm of your hand like it is now... i used to love video stores, blockbuster was actually my least favorite. we had a few small local video stores where i live and they competed with each other with the anime boom in the 90s, and also rented video games. i feel like in those days you watched/played what you rented as much as possible because you knew you had to give it back. i would watch a dragonball z movie about 30 times before returning it 3 days later.
I feel like his adding 0.5 to everything sent the Insider video editors into a real panic. Discussions were had.
12:57 had them on the ropes
I admire his accuracy; I'm sure the editors and designers had to decide whether to round or truncate. The eternal struggle of the engineer's precision and the designer's desire for aesthetics.
They have definitely rounded up in other videos, but here they rounded down.
I want this guy back. He is so entertaining and very insightful
Crazy how this guy can rob 300-500 safes in a year, do an interview, and still not be caught. Thats some skill
"DMX, rest in peace"
He's a real one
Came to the comment section looking for this comment.
Came here to post this. The fact that he INSTANTLY recognizes DMX is the most surprising thing about the video.
Lol I was thinking same thing
Yea what a baller
@@notoriouszig why? He's an old black guy of course he knows dmx
I like how he saying ‘that is a real tool’ and then bring up his tool to show it 😂
Giggity
@@AntonAdelson actually underrated comment. Hilarious.
I noticed that but to be fair I think he was given heads up on the movies and came with those tools to show validity.
I love how brutally honest and real this guy is
"Exercise that part of my shadow" - this guy is fully integrated. Love that turn of phrase.
This guy gets 10/10. He shouted out DMX. Verified Ruff Ryder
Lol "If DMX shows up to your house with a bazooka to open your safe, your problem's gotten out of hand." xD
My neighbors now know how funny i thought your comment was. You just won the internet.
It's 10 for the shout +. 5 for the RIP.
Dude is a verified OG just for this shout.
I find this hilarious, adorable and intimidating at the same time, how he's carrying his toolbox with him, and his tools in almost every pocket, for an interview.. like he has to rush back to work right after reviewing random shitty movie scenes.
Honestly, if he's cracking 300 to 500 safes a year, that doesn't leave many days off. He may very well have gone right back to work after shooting this!
Be prepared 😉
That's a job you are pretty much always on call with him running the business. They probably do way more work on home and car lockouts.
Lol
Even with weekends thats more than a safe per day. His company needs to have several teams
I'm glad he's more critical than others because maybe some movie producer will take notes that they should hire a guy like this when doing a whole movie on cracking safes you better have an expert on hand !
For brutal honesty, watch the one with the blacksmith.
I'm available. 😂
You mean, the only 1 that got a 10/10 was the 1 that really happened?
This guy’s a badass tho. By giving them all low numbers he’s basically telling us we’re all entertained by stupid sh*t! Love him!
When I was younger in my early 20's ( I'm 53 now) I started an apprenticeship as a locksmith in Houston. For 2 years I relayed locks learned how to pick locks etc. My master locksmith decided to take me with him to open a ship's safe that the purser had lost the combination to. He knew the first number only. So I watched as my instructor tried to manipulate the combo for about an hour then he said we have to drill it open. He had many books from safe manufacturers made for that purpose that specifically told you where to drill exactly, how deep to drill etc. Now this was a hardened steel govt safe about 4ft tall and I had no idea what the procedure was. But using the tools designed to open this safe, with the correct measurements it still took 8 hours to drill out and probably 40 bits. The drill is hooked to chains and a lever to put pressure on the drill and the hardened metal would burn up the bits after just a few minutes. My job was to put cutting oil on the bit where it contact the safe. After that I just decided keying locks was more for me. Much respect to the guys that open safes for a living, it's not glamorous and most the time very difficult.
I always wondered how hard it really was to pick a lock. Not a heavy duty safe like the type you’re talking about, I just mean a front door or something like that. Like if you get locked out. Can you really use a paper clip?
@@madelinegarber7860 Honestly, not that difficult. Roommate bought a relatively cheap lockpick set and a bunch of padlocks for us to all mess around with. The spring tension of the locks was actually more difficult to get past then the pins themselves.
@@madelinegarber7860 you would need two paperclips and have to bend them in the right ways. It's absolutely doable, I've done it. There are videos here on RUclips on how to do it.
@@madelinegarber7860 If you're actually interested, look up the Lockpicking Lawyer's youtube channel. You'll never feel safe behind a locked door again.
@@caitlinomalley80 absolutely not how safe locks work.
His comment about the ant man clip blew my mind, never thought about that, and he pointed it out straight away
Where I live, we have one of those vaults - double door style and twice the size. It has not been a bank for a century, but in my lifetime.... An insurance place, A Burger King with adult only seating in the vault, and now an Amazing Greco-Americano restaurant. Unfortunately the owner David (and name of the place), has the doors closed. He may have too. I forgot to ask him, but will next time we talk.
Yeah bruh, idk why I never thought of it blowing the other way 🤣
What a awesome man. He knows his stuff, criticises very harsh but accurate, and when this happens 16:22 he's just like: "This is the best". Great
I think I may have to get my old man to do one of these. He’s been a “Safe-Cracker” for over 50yrs. Could be entertaining
"Exercise that part of my shadow" .... this dude has def gotten into safes he wasn't supposed to
Didn't he say something about cracking a safe and finding condoms and dirty pictures?
I mean most normal people probably daydream about what its like to be a gangster or some kind of criminal, i think its a totally normal kind of fantasy. This guy just happens to have a very particular set of skills hahah
@@AbRas644 for a client
As a locksmith I tell some people that I am an honest thief. And I'd say that a couple of the 3's should have been a 2 or a 1. People keep some crazy stuff in their safes. UL labs in Michigan use a Sawzall to open up most of their test safes.
Carl Jung is strong with this safe master.
This channel never dissapoint us. Always come up with an interesting topic🙌
@@Gaijin_shorts She comments on every single one of these. I know her solely from said comments aha.
haha well i requested them to make such a video. I was watching the kingsman movie and there is a scene where they are cracking a safe and i wondered if its real so i contacted them and the one who responded told me he need to talk with the team if they will do it. I told them if they make a video then let me know but they didnt aghhh and somehow I missed it even though Im subscribed and only now i found it by scroling on yt.
You get no views and you use a bot to comment on other videos, imagine. Make better content and don’t be shitty and you’ll get real access
She is everywhere lol even on the food review channel
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I just love listening to people talk about their passions on these and seeing how incredibly knowledgeable they are about it
As a locksmith with little safe experience, I found this incredibly fascinating
Soon they’ll have zombies rating World War Z.
LMAO, that's true
Why doesn't this comment have more likes?
Underrated
Only if one of them complains about the fact that they butchered a great book.
That would be a great April fool's episode! 🤣🤣🤣
The whole episode is a zombie in full gore makeup going like "bleeh blaaaahhhh... bleblahblelbliassshhhdaaahhh" or speaking perfect English with a British accent.
3:25 That’s actually something brought up in the ‘Artemis Fowl’ books when they were still good. There’s a material that can make a perfect impression of a person’s fingerprint, but just like he says, it’s an inverse, with ridges where there should be grooves. Similarly, the mastermind of the plan knew this, because he knew that he would need to hide this detail from his less-scrupulous cohorts because the alternative was cutting off the thumb of the only guy that could get through the door.
I had the exact same thought, except for the implication that the Artemis Fowl books ever stopped being good.
@@rokeYouuer How about "Before the Artemis Fowl movie screwed up the books"?
@@michaelmurphy2112 That's not a thing. Bad movies don't make good books bad. If that were true, nobody would ever read anymore.
@@rokeYouuer No, but they discourage people from reading the books because they assume the books are just as bad as the movie
Artemis used a certain kind of tape to create a copy (albeit reverse) of Spiro's thumb...
But he could have used another piece of that same tape, and the initial one as a mold to create the perfect thumb impression...
Would have been much easier
One of the best ones I have seen up till now. Great job
"If DMX shows up to your house to open your safe with a bazooka, your situations probably gotten out of hand."
- Absolutely 💯 ❤ it!!!
Finally - an episode expert who rates toughly and accurately!
Love the Oxy Lance scene in “Thief”.
My father was a VP for several banks. Told me he had a branch manager get locked in the walk in safe. The bank paid a profession safecracker 10k to get the safe open with out destroying the lock. The bank manager was super pissed she got locked in.
What??? You sure the hired is a professional?
@@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 If my memory is correct it was a Friday afternoon and the company/guy who was going open the safe said he could do it on Monday for a thousand. They payed the price cause there was an employee locked in the safe and they were a bank, they had the $$$. Having the $$$ is probably why they had to play so much.
@@alexo5861 P.S. was this Keybank? I knew a woman who worked Corporate Training for them and heard stories like this all the time!!
--payed-- paid - for some reason
@@JiveDadson Thank you, the spelling error has been corrected. Honestly I am spelling challenged.
“They’re telling kids that they don’t need to learn math and that there are no right answers to math,” lol wat
LOL
I've been a locksmith for a couple years now, and this man is so immensly similar to someone I know that it's kind of scary. The idea that locksmiths are all safe specialists/safe cracker/safe technician is a immense misconception. I and many of my co-workers are no where near as knowledge about safes specifically as this man here, a true master. Although the knowledge between safe work and normal residential/commercial and high-security locks, just locksmithing in general, have some overlap, they mostly stay completely separate fields, each requiring a massive amount of knowledge and experience. Often times safe cracking is either considered completely separate or a specialization of locksmithing. I have taken on some safe work in the past, and if you're dealing with base factory safes, and know the model and brand, professionals can get access to drill points. I've only encounted it once, where a professional had augmented an exisiting factory safe, moving the position of the glass, adding an additional pannel and relocker, and moving the postion of the factory relocker, which made everything so much harder. I'm just thankful they didn't try to leave the cables for the relockers in the path of the desired drill points. You're never supposed to drill that far anyways, but still.
For any professional they need information from the client, and the job changes wildly whether they need the lock functional after it's been worked on, or if destruction is a valid option. Getting the drill points for the safe is a good idea, but if that'ds not possible, due to a lack of information, then boring holes to scope out what's inside the main door, or whats on the back of the main door is a huge benefit. If you're luck and whoever owns the safe is a moron and left the sides or top of the safe open and easily accessable, that is easily the fastest way in, since the walls of a safe are significantly thinner and weaker than the thick fully steel door. Most of the work I do is on household or commercial locks, not safes, but it's always something that has been facinating to see professionals in action, and also infuriating when people expect locksmiths to crack safes at the same level as safe cracking specialists, when most of the work is entirely separate. Also a hint for people with portable fire safes, is that many of the can just be popped open just by pushing the bottom and top of the safe in separate directions. Sentry safes are notoriously bad with that, bust them open with your bare hands in 2 seconds.
What alot of people don't realise is that many times the non-destructive path to lockwork will end up costing the customer far more. From my experience, which is limited with safes, is that there are few parts that can be easily replaced if destructive methods are used, and many end up damaging the face of the door, leaving the safe in a non-reparable position, in that case you will need to replace which will cost more money. On the other hand deadbolts on front doors often have standarized cylinder sizes that can be easily replaced should they be drilled out. Many times a locksmith will only attempt raking or bumping a lock, seeing if a cylinder is easily pickable, before drilling a lock, since taking any more time trying to manipulate a lock open, which may never open if there are interal issues with the cylinder like rusted, snapped or bent parts, tailpiece, bolt, etc, will end up charging the customer more in labor then drilling the cylinder and replacing it would have costed. It's not that the locksmith couldn''t have stayed and picked it for longer until it opened, but because if you can do a job faster, charge the customer less and produce the same result, then why wouldn't you.
What I will say is that I can pick most locks faster than other locksmiths can drill the same lock and replace them.
We both know that the mark up on the replacement lock is all too often why the drill comes out after 15 seconds.
"I get to exercise that part of my shadow"
That pretty much brought the man into focus, for me. Extremely intelligent as well as a deep thinker that knows himself. Jung would agree.
I was thinking about how he sounded kind of like Paterson and then he said the word shadow . A man of culture indeed
I found the comment I was looking for..
I thought he was alluding to a criminal past.
ooh lala
exorcise
This guy was great.
In the opening of Thief, he is really cracking a rea safe. Michael Mann is a bit of a pioneer in technical realism. His philosophy is that an actor should be able to do what his character is doing. One of my favorites, is that fir Collateral, he made Tom Cruise get a job as a delivery man and deliver packages until he could do it without being recognized.
This guy is so knowledgeable in his field. Just a joy to watch
DMX with a bazooka will be the best safecracker ever
The quiet joy in this guy's eyes as he talked about the stuff in the bestbuy safe is just marvelous
One of the best of this kind of video..........Such a nice but honest guy.
to say "i get to exercise that part of my shadow" and smile comfortably, is pretty profound.
Jeff Sitar was the best safecracker ever. The very best. And that largely due to his extraordinary sense of touch in his fingers. He claimed that he opened almost every safe he worked on by touch alone, with the only exceptions being safes that were too badly rusted or damaged and had to be opened with tools.
Sadly, Jeff died a couple years ago. A great loss to the safecracking world.
How does one go about starting a career in safecracking and is there money in it?
@@thebravelittletoaster1415 do any courses that involve maths, and engineering, that's enough to get you into a uni course on safe cracking. Yes there's money in it. Look for any sort of job involving things like locks, cars, watches and you're on an easy path to getting into uni and excelling. Good luck!
Thank you for saying such kind words about Jeff. He was a really nice guy that I'm proud to say was a friend. We hired and worked with him for years. I miss him and was sadden to hear he passed.
I say Jeff Sitar is not better than this guy , this guy is GOAT of Opening Safes.
@@dariodawaten1420 do you know many safe crackers? How do you know who is the goat?
I love that he showed respect to DMX, I just wish they had a Bad Santa clip to show him!
This guy is amazing. Like...how do you get into this line of work? To say "I can crack the lock on your safe" has got to be the highlight of this occupation.
This is one of the best ones yet! He's hilarious.
i can see his face, therefore this is NOT the lockpicking lawyer
Jeez their voices are so similar, woulda fooled me otherwise. Not to mention they live on opposite sides of the states :p
I would love to see LPL do one of these. However, yeah, he'll never agree to being on camera like this.
No. 2 is binding.
He’s a expert
This is the Safecracking Bailiff.
3:26 FInally someone said it!!! They do this in every movie: they take someone's fingerprint off a surface and put it on latex or rubber or whatever and use that as if they haven't just made an inverse of the fingerprint they actually need.
Mythbuster did an episode and were successful at 3 different ways, including using a copy machine.
Depending on how the reader registers the fingerprint it may not make any difference. In addition, you can just flip the print around, in fact, you'd probably have to to avoid it being mirrored. It's not scanning surface topography, so the print being flat is no big deal.
“There is no such thing as a lock picking maven”
LpL - “hello everyone this is the lock picking lawyer”
The only thing I didn't like was in the first clip, he says they would have drilled the safe, but the reason she is trying to crack it by hand is because she *did* try to drill it and fucked up. So anymore drilling would make it near impossible to get in. I don't know how accurate or not that is of course, but they did give a reason for why she was no longer drilling.
I love this! I’m a locksmith and safe-tech and this cracks me up. We always joke about these scenes. People picking locks is almost worse. They almost never have any turning pressure. 🤣
Yup.. First tool in the Keyway is your tensioner...
Master safecracker *roasts* 10 safecracking Heist in movies and TV
Great guest! Love these vids
I half-expected the Lock Picking Lawyer to make an appearance!
I love experts who not only criticise things but also have some stories and senses of humour. Love this man
This is so interesting, you don't need a safe cracker, you need a digger and preferably an explosives expert. Makes total sense, this guy's great! Also, its quite poignant for him to point out the moral dilemma of owning a house with a safe in it that contains the property of the past owner, I know that would make me feel uncomfortable.
yeah you can cut or drill through pretty much anything with tools available at a hardware store.. in a way, ignorance is bliss
If you can afford the sort of house with a safe containing six figures worth of forgotten goods you probably don't have too many morals, lol.
@@pobsdad Not always, plus you'd be the one buying the home so the same morals would, in effect, also apply to you. Often, its elderly people moving out of these big homes that once held their children, so they might have forgotten it. Family heirlooms, etc. The sellers might have dementia. Hard to say. I'd still have some reservations about taking it, esp if I knew the sellers were nice, decent people. But if I knew they were awful, less reservations...
Yea, except in some cases where you need to keep the integrity of the safe/lock intact, in which case he seems to be saying you may need all 3. Seems to be not too common in thievery jobs. Think he pointed out one out of all of these where it might be truly detrimental to damage too much of the safe if you're just there to grab and dash.
best guest ever, critical and honest.
Great video. Love the honesty
Sometimes it is easier to either remove the safe from the wall (if it is small) or just go through the wall bypassing the locking mechanism altogether if you don't give a crap about the condition you leave things in. Like in Ant Man. I am pretty sure it would have been easier to just break through the wall with a sledgehammer than open the door.
I like that he mentioned the glass relocking devices and the way The Thieves showed the drilling stopped before hitting glass. I don't like that The Italian Job got poor marks for them not drilling - mainly because I don't think he was given the full scene where Charlize Theron first drills the safe but hits the glass. She can hear it crack but stops before it can fully shatter and has no choice but to try manually. On top of that, the safe they're expecting is one without the glass relocking device and it's not the one in the truck. They're not prepared for what they have so I have to wonder if Mr Santore was given the full picture or just the manual cracking segment.
I was thinking that when I was watching this as well. Been a while since I seen the film but I was almost certain they had her trying to drill the safe first. They probably just gave him the clip with her trying the dials and writing on the safe.
Same, she legally drills a safe earlier in the movie as well as attempting to drill this one. Would have been nice to hear a critique on the other 2 parts as well.
You can't do that though. The glass shatters instantly and completely, by design. Then the nice strong springs complete the job!
He gets to perfectly know his job and still use it for good not for stealing. Thumbs up! Great review.
This has got to be the best episode of tge expert series. The guy is brutally honest and insightful. This is what i want to see from an expert.
Most honest ratings I've seen for these breakdowns.
So glad to see “Thief” get some recognition ! Surprised you didn't showcase the bypass and burn through (oxy-lance) on the last job but still nice to see it mentioned !
One of my favorite movies and a great precursor to the movie Heat
@@dchodge9692 It's in my Top 10 favorites. I like it better than "Heat".
Exactly my thinking - where was the "cut my own doorway" sequence? And the conversation with the metal shop owner to develop the test sample and set up the cutting tools?
Also, his rating of Thief's opening safe-cracking scene seems a bit off (should have been a 10/10), since Mann and Caan confirm in interviews that it was a real safe and that Caan really had to break into it, on camera. The whole sequence was real. Caan might not have used the optimal technique with using the punch (arguable), and the close-up shot into the bore-hole may have been a second-unit mock-up (but maybe not), but Caan absolutely did the job for real; once the main door was open, he even had to improvise to break open the secondary doors to get to the diamonds. Neat stuff.
A really enjoyable and informative video narrated by someone who has served their apprenticeship; learning by doing - excellent 10/10.
man, his look is so simple yet so so styled (y)
Hire this guy for a movie about a heist, it would be incredible seeing a lock be ACTUALLY picked
It would also be incredibly boring
I disagree. Realism has become a much bigger part in movies and shows, just look at John Wick: losing all the hollywood tropes and going for straight efficiency made the action a lot more engaging. Or, perhaps a little closer related to the issue: The hacking in Mr. Robot. As far as I know, all the exploits and hacks that happened in the show were done for real, or at least depicted as realistically as possible. This made one of the best and most engaging scenes of hacking in the history of film. Realism isn't boring. It's usually people without a creative vision/ talent that fail to make it engaging, so they fall back on stupid tropes to make up for it. I'm convinced that a creative, talented director could make an engaging, accurate movie about safe cracking.
@@TheDonutMan3000 i think you meant “agree”, because that’s literally what i am saying
@@ypob2007 my comment was aimed at Carl, not you
@@TheDonutMan3000 alright then
To be fair in "The Italian Job" they did try to drill it but she cracked the glass inside it and had to do it by hand
I don’t remember the Italian job too well but if she broke the glass it would have set off the cable relocker and she would have needed to pin the locker before manipulating it open. But again I don’t remember the full scene
@@louisraeburn-santore7542 it was cracked but not shattered. If she drilled any further it would have locked itself
@@louisraeburn-santore7542 The movie explained that the glass shattering would jam the tumblers, meaning the door would likely need to be completely cut off/open. But they definitely should have shown the attempt at drilling.
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Great video, I am a GSC Certified safe technician myself, been workingon safes for more that 20yrs.
Wow, that was a _great_ point he made about lifting the fingerprint and applying it to silicone.
Is anyone going to acknowledge how rad this dudes shirt is?!?
This is his girlfriend. I bought it for him... thank you!
@@rutavaisnys5860 Don't keep any locks around him!
@@er42069 EXACTLY! He can get into anything! :D
This guy doesn't sugarcoat at all and one of the best experts I've seen in your videos so far, get him to do more video please.
I love this guy! He’s part of that old school generation that doesn’t take crap or entertain our modern day nonsense.
It's a cultural thing, not a generational thing. Every generation has something thought of as 'nonsense' at the time. It has little to do with this generation. We're just in the middle of it, which makes it hard to tell what's nonsense and what's bias. Also, regardless of age, tradesmen are just kind of like this.
I love the air drill making circ saw sounds.
Hollywood should hire him for a heist film. Damn, this guy has some detailed information
we need more people like him he’s too real
I love that he’s so hard to please but he’s not unfair, just more willing to call bullshit than a lot of other experts
That was really cool. His expertise is fantastic!! I enjoy this channel quite abit.
Man even knows a bit of Jung. "I get to exercise my shadow and help people at the same time."
I like how he just casually spawns drill bits…I was wow magic🤣😂
This is his girlfriend. You have no idea the kind of stuff he carries around in his pockets! He jingles and clanks as he walks.
I love his appreciation for his craft
I like this guy, he isn't giving a lot of leeway like some of the other experts on these videos.
"This is bullshit, and here is why" not "well thier heart was in the right place..."
Was really hoping they would show him the episode of Thunderbirds where Parker had to open a bank safe (twice).
YAS! Nosey ftw
Very much enjoyed this - a real fellow that is good at his trade being mightily disappointed by how Hollywood does it :lol:. I'm a SCADA engineer and though control systems come up seldom in movies when they do they are always atrocious ... so I have a tiny understanding of his pain :D. The worst for me was in Die Hard 4 as it was a SCADA for power T&D, which is my actual, precise, job in an already niche field where the skill set is rare! ROFL.
EDIT: As others have said here in the comments, the one that gets a really good score stands out extra well from the trash that came before because you know by then this guy takes no prisoners :)! And I actually gave him some applause at the end, he impressed me so.
What is a SCADA and what tf is a T&D?
@@Michel-7.7.7 SCADA = "Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition" and "T&D" = "Transmission and Distribution"
Richard Sitar was a world record holder for using his hands to manipulate and open safes. He was tested over and over and never failed to open any safe or vault door. His finger tips can sense when he has each wheel set. There's a video here on youtube. Very interesting. No tools, no amps, just spidy sense! Lol
Ok, that was extremely fun and educative!