No Ordinary Heist

"26.5 million reasons to break the rules."

2026 1h 39m EN

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★6.7TMDB · 19★5.6IMDB · 617

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Inspired by the true 2004 Northern Bank robbery, two feuding bank employees are forced to execute Ireland’s biggest heist after criminals kidnap their families and threaten to kill them.

“26.5 million reasons to break the rules.”

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Cast

Eddie Marsan
Richard Murray
Éanna Hardwicke
Barry McKenna
Michelle Fairley
Mags Fulton
Eva Birthistle
Celine Murray
Andrea Irvine
Bernie
Patrick O'Kane
Gravel
Paddy Jenkins
Jim
J.B. Moore
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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Colin McIvor
Writers: Aisling Corristine, Colin McIvor
Languages: English
Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America

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ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Colin McIvor, shot by Damien Elliott. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Original score by Phil Kieran. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Eddie Marsan and Éanna Hardwicke and Michelle Fairley carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "26.5 million reasons to break the rules.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt9661164 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 19 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Colin McIvor directs. Damien Elliott behind the camera. Phil Kieran scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
2International production across 3 countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
3Directed by Colin McIvor, shot by Damien Elliott. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Phil Kieran. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Eddie Marsan and Éanna Hardwicke and Michelle Fairley carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "26.5 million reasons to break the rules.".
7IMDB entry: tt9661164 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 19 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Damien Elliott
Original score: Phil Kieran
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: No Ordinary Heist (2026)
IMDB rating: 5.6/10 · 617 votes

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CinemaSerf2026-04-01
★ 7/10
Set against a backdrop of a busy Christmas and impending, pretty savage, redundancies from it’s Australian parent company, Northern Bank manager “Murray” (Eddie Marsan) is also facing discord at home from a wife (Eva Birthistle) who has had enough of him always being at, or obsessed with, work. Meantime, “Barry” (Éanna Hardwicke) is a jovial worker at the bank who regularly wanders around with the vault keys in his hands as he chats with his pals. The two men don’t exactly get on, but they are going to have to learn to work together when terrorists arrive at their respective homes and take the manager’s wife and the younger man’s asthmatic mother hostage. Co-operate with an audacious robbery of tens of millions of pounds or else! Both men are determined that no harm shall come to their families, but “Murray” isn’t entirely convinced that “Barry” isn’t involved - they already have a deep-rooted past with the troubles that does nothing to engender any sense of trust between them. What also isn’t going to help is the eagle-eyed security chief “Mags” (Michelle Fairley) whom they know they are going to have to hoodwink if they are to move such a substantial amount of paper through the building’s comprehensive CCTV network without being discovered. It’s based on an actual event so we know what happens at the end, but that lack of jeopardy doesn’t really impact negatively as both Marsan and Hardwicke imbue their characters with quite palpable senses of fear and mistrust whilst director Colin McIvor keeps the pace taut and comparatively simple. There is menace here, but the use of the erratically functional telephones keeps the perpetrators at an effective arms-length so there is no need for violence - this is a terror of an altogether more psychological nature, and though it probably doesn’t need a cinema screening, it’s certainly worth a watch.

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