Four allegedly professional thieves pull off the dumbest heist ever. The plan is to break into a luxury hotel's safe deposit boxes. The crew is careful to watch the clock because the heist has to begin at precisely 2:22. It's a pointless stipulation. Once they're inside, they act like they have all the time in the world.

The crew incapacitates the small staff working the late shift. Then the safe expert starts breaking into the boxes. They run into their first snag when the phone rings. Everybody freezes. None of them are sure how to react. Let me repeat that. These guys just took over a hotel, and none of them considered the possibility that the phone would ring.

They finally decide to answer it. The caller is a guest who wants room service. One of the crew goes into the kitchen to make him a BLT. Well, there's no longer a smidgen of doubt these guys are schmucks. No tight deadlines for this crew. No guy with a stopwatch yelling "Thirty seconds!" They'll just impersonate the hotel staff for a few hours while one guy very slowly, very loudly drills the safe deposit boxes open. No way that'll raise any suspicion.

It's common for heists to go wrong in these kinds of movies. The problem in 2:22 is that the heist doesn't go wrong enough. A plan this terrible deserves to go down in flames. Realistically, these guys should have been in handcuffs by 2:30.

Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne are wasted in cameos. There's a scene where Byrne flubbed a line and they didn't bother to shoot another take. Not only did he phone his performance in, he did it with 5% battery left.

4 out of 10.

Seen on Tubi.