Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a 2007
British fictional heist movie called: Flawless. Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
As our story begins, we see a hand foraging in the mud and finding what appears to be gemstones.
The gemstones are in fact, uncut diamonds. Now we see the busy city of London and an
elderly lady called Laura Quinn sitting in a café as her guest arrives, a young newspaper
reporter by the name of Cassie, who hopes to write a story about Laura. As they talk,
Laura produces a diamond of 168 carats and has 58 facets. Cassie is amazed and picks up the diamond
as Laura begins to tell the story of how she stole the diamond from the London Diamond Company.
When Laura tells her story, we go back to 1960 in London. Laura, a young business woman,
is entering the building of the London Diamond Corporation where she works as a
manager in a male dominated company. She says hi to an elderly cleaner called Mr. Hobbs.
We see a man named Mr. Eaton being followed by two men with small trolleys.
Eaton opens a large vault where they load the trolleys with diamonds and take them to the
desks where they are examined for flaws. Outside, the owner of the company known
as MKA and his son Ollie arrive at the building amidst a group of protestors.
As they enter the office, the directors and staff are waiting to discuss
the latest news of 100 diamond workers being killed at the mine site in Africa. Laura tells
MKA that the Russians will most likely sever ties with the company because of the bad press.
MKA announces the new managing director as Peter Boland. Laura is not chosen because
the company will not break tradition by making a woman managing director.
Later, we see Mr. Hobbs the cleaner enter Laura’s office. He tells her that he believes people
should be bold and take what they desire. Laura signs out of the building,
the last to leave as usual. In the hallway the following day,
Laura meets a man named Harold Reynolds who she met at Oxford University. He gives Laura a
business card and suggests she might like to work for Allied Banking, the company he works for.
The next morning, she finds her inspirational note and a negative response written below.
She also finds a cinema ticket with a session time written on the back.
Curiosity gets the better of her and in her lunch break she goes to the cinema.
As Laura enters the cinema, Mr. Hobbs is there and suggests they sit together.
She is losing patience, but he tells her that he overheard a conversation between the directors
saying that her job will be terminated shortly. He offers her a plan: stealing enough diamonds
to make them rich, but not enough to be noticed. She’s not sure whether to believe him or not and
warns Hobbs that he'll never get away with that. Later at work, Laura finds a letter of her
employment termination. She then decides to make an appointment to see Harry Reynolds.
As Laura sits in a restaurant with Harry, he tells her his company cannot offer her a job
because she is incompetent. It seems that her company has spread some bad rumors about her.
That night, she falls asleep on the sofa and has a dream about the security men at work, catching
her trying to steal diamonds from the company. The next evening, she goes to the dog races to
find Hobbs. She asks him how he can rob the company. Hobbs tells her he has a plan.
In Hobbs' apartment, he explains his plan. Because the vault codes are changed weekly,
he will need Laura to find the codes which are somewhere in MKA’s study at his house.
Hobbs tells Laura, when she is attending a function at MKA’s house to entertain the Russians,
she will have to find the vault codes. He tells her that he can carry enough diamonds in his drink
thermos to see both of them comfortably retired. On the night of the function, Laura talks with
MKA’s second in command, Mr. Jameson. He tells Laura how Sir Sinclair, the company’s insurance
director, was once implicated in a health insurance scandal but wasn’t prosecuted.
MKA introduces Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Diamond Authority to them. Dmitriev asks Laura
for a dance. Later, Laura walks upstairs and goes to MKA’s study to look for the codes.
Laura hears footsteps and quickly hides as MKA enters and opens a small safe.
She watches him and makes a mental note of the safe code. Once he’s left she opens the
safe and finds the codes for the vault. The next day, Laura sees a man installing a
security camera in the hallway. Later she meets Hobbs and tells him that there are eight CCTV
cameras being installed. She tells him the cameras alternate on and off for 60 seconds at a time.
He assures her that’s enough time for him to get in and out of the vault.
Next, Hobbs mops the floor in the security room and times the cameras.
In the cleaner’s room, he looks at his stopwatch then makes his move. Looking at his stopwatch,
he rushes to the vault and puts in the code. Meanwhile, Laura calls the security room as a
distraction, to give Hobbs a little more time. Again he watches his stopwatch then opens
the vault and hurries quickly down the corridor and out of the view of the camera.
Later we see Hobbs leaving work to go home. The next morning Laura watches Hobbs leave work
but the sign on the clerk calls Hobbs back inside. Hobbs is required
to unblock a toilet before leaving. Hobbs is at home emptying his tea thermos
into the sink, but there are no diamonds! The next day, the diamond sorters have all
gone home. Laura goes down to the lobby and finds Jameson in a panic.
Laura is in the ladies toilets when Mr. Eaton calls her and takes her to the vault.
As she enters, she can’t believe her eyes. The vault is empty.
Mr. Eaton is showing a man named Finch the building plans and tells him the
only way into the vault is by the door. Now MKA is telling all of the management
staff that there will be no police investigation because the publicity
would ruin the company. Sinclair introduces Finch as the chief insurance investigator.
Laura sees Hobbs in the lobby, but he reassures her everything is okay.
Later, Laura goes to MKA’s office. We see a man called Boyle giving a letter to MKA regarding the
purchase of some inventory. Apparently Boyle is unaware of his client’s identity and the contents
of the inventory. Boyle is called out for a phone call. While he is out MKA reads the letter which
states that the diamonds can be bought back for 100 million pounds. Before leaving, Boyle hands
a small package to MKA and then he leaves. MKA opens the package which contains a huge
diamond known as The South African Star. Later, Finch asks Laura some questions
and notices that she’s very nervous. The next morning Laura suggests to Jameson
that she works with Finch to help with his investigations.
Laura finds Finch and they go down to the Vault together. He tells her that CCTV cameras are not
so secure because of a 60 second time gap. Finch tells her there was no forced entry.
She suggests that the thief must have known the combination.
We see Sinclair offer MKA a cheque for 5 million pounds to buy enough diamonds to keep trading but
MKA wants the diamonds back now. When Finch suggests that MKA’s son Ollie may have been
involved, MKA loses his temper and threatens to ruin Sinclair if he doesn’t pay the ransom.
Now we see Hobbs in an underground canal and Laura tells him they should give the
diamonds back and make a deal, but he tells her if she does that they will go to jail.
We see Laura looking at the plans of the building when Finch comes in to take her fingerprints,
just as a formality. He then asks her to accompany him while he questions Hobbs.
While Finch questions Hobbs, a man comes in and calls Finch away.
Before Hobbs leaves the office, Laura tells him they’ll have to negotiate or go to jail.
He tells her, his cause is worth 100 lifetimes in jail.
We see Finch looking at Laura’s prints and comparing them with some from MKA’s home.
Now Laura is opening Hobbs’ locker to look for a clue to the diamonds.
Later, Laura joins Finch for a drink in a nearby bar.
At the London Diamond building the press arrives after Sinclair has tipped them off.
Sinclair’s chairman, Sir Gottfried, tries to hold back the press. MKA comes down the stairs then
suffers a heart attack and falls to the floor. Back in the bar, Finch asks Laura how she managed
to remove all the diamonds, but she assures him she is not that smart. Just then, Finch
is told of MKA’s heart attack and he leaves. In the ladies toilets, Laura drops a diamond
from her earring in the sink’s drain. She removes the pipe underneath and suddenly she realizes how
Hobbs must have removed the diamonds. Laura takes a torch and enters the underground
drain system. As she walks through the tunnels, Hobbs appears with a torch. When she threatens to
turn him in he points a gun at her and tells her she’s staying. She knocks the gun from
his hand then runs through the tunnel, but trips and falls then sees a huge diamond on the floor,
which she puts in her pocket. Hobbs tells Laura how his wife’s cancer
could have been removed but the insurance company made her wait too long for the surgery. By then
the cancer was too aggressive. Sinclair was the insurance chairman at the time, who postponed the
surgery. So Laura realizes that Hobbs is getting his revenge on Sinclair. Hobbs tells Laura,
Sinclair took the one thing he truly loved. Gottfried tells Sinclair he has agreed to pay
the ransom of 100 million pounds. Sinclair goes to his office and shoots himself.
Laura tells Hobbs how she dropped her diamond in the sink and then she figured it out.
Now we see a flashback, when Hobbs was taking all the diamonds in his work
trolley at intervals, to his workroom. Ollie receives word that the ransom was
deposited into the account but the note from Boyle showing the location of the diamonds is blank.
We see how Hobbs emptied the diamonds down the sink then. The South African Star
was actually in the bottom of the toilet Hobbs was asked to clean.
Now Hobbs points the gun at Laura and pulls the trigger. To his surprise,
the gun was never loaded. He tells her it doesn’t matter now because the money will have been paid.
He turns off his torch and walks away. Laura walks down the tunnel and looks round
the corner. There are all the diamonds, piled high at the end of the drain.
Now we see men carrying boxes of diamonds out of the underground tunnel while Laura
sits on the steps wrapped in a blanket. Finch tells her he has lost his 5% finder’s fee
because she found the diamonds. Laura is about to make an admission but Finch stops her. He
says he would hate to see her spend the rest of her life behind bars. He says goodbye and leaves.
She remembers the large diamond in her pocket, but she decides to keep it.
We see Ollie telling the press that the diamonds were not stolen then allows them
to photograph all the diamonds inside the vault. Dmitriev is seen signing a contract to secure his
relationship with the company once again. Back to the present day, and Laura is again
talking with Cassie, telling her that she left the company a month later. How she received a letter
from a Swiss bank informing her of a deposit made to an account in her name of 100 million pounds.
Laura hands Cassie a manuscript of her story to be published, hoping it will inspire other women.
At the end, we see how Laura donated all the money to worthy charities around the world. We see a
photo of Laura with her husband and daughter. Cassie reads the final words of the manuscript.
“It’s a remarkable world out there ….. will you be a giver or a taker?”
She walks outside to look for Laura but she’s already gone.
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