Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) is a retired London gangster living in happy retirement with his ex- porn actress wife (Amanda Redman) in a stark villa on the sun-baked hills of southern Spain. One bad day, a boulder comes crashing down into his pool, followed by Don, a manically foul-mouthed associate from his criminal days, a leering sociopath who stinks of brimstone, who adamantly wants him to do one more “job”.

Played by Ben Kingsley, Don is an unblinking juggernaut of hostility whose bullying obscenities, so fantastically overwrought as to sound like some kind of foul poetry, hide the deeper, wounded agenda that’s brought him to Spain. Gal desperately wants to turn him down, but it isn’t possible, naturally. 

The heist itself is only the most beautifully constructed section of this impeccably written, acted, shot and edited film. Glazer evokes the minimalist kitsch of Gal’s life in Spain, and the sinister industry of London, with magnificent precision. An exhuberantly taut, even perfect, little film.