The film opens with a long shot of a buildings roof and skyscrapers with a window suddenly breaking, a close up reviels the cause to be caused by a man in a Joker mask, making the audience assume that he is the Joker, the main antagonist of the film and Batman's arch enemy. This assumtion is proven wrong when the shot cuts to another man standing on a street corner holding another Joker mask, he then puts it on as he gets into a car that stopped to pick him up. The shot then cuts back to the first man who, now with another mask wearer, are rppeling from the tower block to the roof we saw at the begining of the film. Again the shot cuts to the car, revielign its occupents to all be wearing Joker masks and discussing the robbery they are about to undertake, saying that the Joker isnt going to get a share because he is sitting it out, with one of them saying that he "Knows why they call him the Joker". The shot them cuts back to the men on the roof disscussing why they call him the Joker, saying he wares warpaint like makeup to scare people, as they break into a communtcations box. The shot cuts back to the men from the car as they climb up the steps to a bank and start firing into the air and knock down a security guard, firmly establishing this to be part of the action genre, and one of the masked men starts pulling bank tellers over there desks saying "move it pall im making a withdrawerall here". The shot is then back on the men on the roof as they deal with the silent alarm the audience satrts to become suspicious of his second man as he reaches into his pocket as the first deals with the alram, a sence of mystery is created here as the first one says that "its trying to reach a privite number" before he is shot in the back by his partner. The mystery is added to when the bank manager comes out of his office firing a shotgun, killing one of the robbers, while the man from the roof tries to break into the vault he gets a strong electric shock that sends him flying backwards, one again adding to the feeling that all is not as it seems, as the scene cuts back to the lobby the manager says that they have no idead who they are steeling from, and they are all dead, he is then taken out with a burst of fire from a Glock when he runs out of ammo. Back in the vault one of the men from the lobby takes out the man at the vault just as he cracks it after a brief conversation about how he took out the alarm guy for "one less share" while revieling that the problems are being coused because its a "mob bank", and how the man from the lobby was "told something similer". Back in the lobby the reamining two men are piling bags of money when the one who took out he vault guy holds a gun to the other saying that he thinks he was told to take him out, but he confuses the man with the gun by saying he was told to take out the bus driver as a bus crashes through the wall to take out the final guy.
This is an excelent example of the action genre, after the main robbery your left wondering who the Joker is, as he didnt turn up during the operning scene, the mandatory gunfight is kept short and is used to crack off a joke "where did you learn to count". It also has the hallmarks of a crime film with the crimernals turning on each other to get a larger share, but the Jokers organisation in planning the robbery means that only he and his favoured goon get the money, or the Joker alone as we never find out who was on the team as they all wore masks and as far as we know the Joker could have been the last man standing.
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