Synopsis
Released in 2019, the fourth film picks up immediately after Pat Tate‘s release from prison. Hungry for vengeance against the men who put him away, Tate (Craig Fairbrass) heads to Marbella to find drug baron Frank Harris, only to discover Harris has died in his absence.
Middleman Terry Fisher (played by producer Andrew Loveday, who also directs) offers Tate the biggest drug deal of his life. All he needs is for Tony Tucker (Terry Stone) and Craig Rolfe (Roland Manookian) to bring the cash from Essex.
What should be a simple plane trip becomes a chaotic European road trip, with Craig’s incompetence dragging Tony through a stolen VW van, a hippie German owner, and a stolen bag of money. Meanwhile, Tony is desperate to get back to England in time to walk his close friend Nigel Benn to the ring for his infamous 1995 super-middleweight title fight against Gerald McClellan.
Production notes
Directed by Andrew Loveday from a script by Will Gilbey, this is the most overtly comedic entry in the franchise, leaning hard into Tony and Craig as a kind of geezer double-act. Critics divided sharply: some welcomed the lighter tone, others felt it cheapened the saga.
Trivia
- Conor Benn, son of Nigel Benn, appears in the film.
- The real Nigel Benn vs Gerald McClellan title fight in February 1995 ended tragically when McClellan suffered a catastrophic brain injury; the film uses this as its emotional anchor.
- Director Andrew Loveday is also a long-running producer on the franchise and plays Terry Fisher in this and other entries.
- The international cut is shorter and uses the title The Heist.