TV Premiere The Great Train Robbery. Chantal Patenaude. Brilliant Insight. A very enjoyable and well-acted series. , Action. Report. Starling Films/United. Critic's Name Wesley. "The Great Train Robbery" is a well-made, nicely acted and overall reasonably entertaining period film. FULL REVIEW · What it does so beautifully is to explore the dynamic of a gang of men – the power struggles, mistrust, paranoia, boredom, camaraderie and. Great Train Robbery, The (Blu-ray Review) ; Director. (June 13, ) ; Studio(s). Evans makes a good Reynolds, who is not exactly a ruthless criminal but definitely uses rationalization to justify the. For his next criminal operation. An entertaining thriller that stumbles occasionally on overlong dialogue sequences. List Full Review · Critic's profile. Michael Crichton ; Release Date(s). Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief of the Victorian Era who's never found a heist he couldn't pull off. TV Premiere Dates poster image. Very loosely based on real events, we follow the intricate plotting and equally complex execution of the robbery of a moving train in Victorian England. The plan for the robbery is pretty straightforward: The train's safe, containing the gold, is locked with four keys. Each key is in different. out. It does have several defaults, though, notably that. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, Well balanced review of the evidence into this case. , 11 min. .