Stone of Destiny

2008

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / History

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 4863 4.9K

students' movement scotland patriotism nationalism heist

Please enable your VPΝ when downloading torrents

If you torrent without a VPΝ, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action!

Get Hide VPΝ

Plot summary

Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.

Director

Charles Martin Smith Photo
Charles Martin Smith

Top cast

Kate Mara Photo
Kate Mara as Kay Matheson
Charlie Cox Photo
Charlie Cox as Ian Hamilton
Robert Carlyle Photo
Robert Carlyle as John MacCormick
Bernard Horsfall Photo
Bernard Horsfall as Archdeacon
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
848.54 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 2
1.54 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Children of Scotland I salute you

Children of Scotland I salute you!
Reviewed by corkball 6 / 10

A heist movie where the actual heist is

A heist movie where the actual heist is amateurish and cornball. But that isn't really the point. A bunch of college students get Scottish patriotism in their blood and decide to steal the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey and return it to Scotland. Part heist flick, part college frat prank, part Braveheart. It isn't really any of these in sum. Interesting flick if you are in to history or Scottish politics. There are some funny bits, but overall I didn't feel the story was all that compelling. Some of the characters were weak, and I didn't feel a real sense of consequence or danger.
Reviewed by R T 3 / 10

C.M. Smith's film, whilst charming in places, portrays

C.M. Smith's film, whilst charming in places, portrays patriotism (and indeed, nationalism) as more than a little small-minded. Fettered with the forgivable use of artistic licence on the events throughout, it informs us even less on the reality of the events than it does the motivations of the group. The protagonist Ian Hamilton is portrayed as a wet (albeit less-so timid) and shallow-minded hot-head. His faux-macho accomplice Gavin is meant to be the heart of the tale's comic offering, but in reality impossible to like after a moment of opaquely perverted & suggestative discourse with a lady bound to Westminster Abbey's information desk. In life, Kay Matheson was (in equal part) a co-conspirator, but in Smith's script she features as not a lot more than Hamilton's love interest after the opening scene. In absence of a proper explanation for the sentiments & actions of these students, we are offered instead a rather tribal view of a fractious Britain, wherein stern, unloveable & suspicious English men & women resent to whimsical hopefulness of Scottish underdogs. This film offers a little charm and not a lot else, but reminds us of a tale that (at some point) needs a more insightful retelling.k
Read more IMDb reviews

2 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment