1. You can mate with Charlize Theron for life if you share a father with her
2. Using non-metric measurements may damage your building in Italy
3. You can avoid hypothermia in icy waters by vigorously sharing a communal scuba-tank
4. You can store 3 tons of gold bars in a safe on the second storey of an old apartment house in Venice without needing any special floor reinforcements or other building modifications.
5. The owners of the safe holding 3 tons of gold bars are going to be dumb enough to believe that such a safe dropped straight through two floors and landed perfectly in the cockpit of an ordinary small fibreglass speedboat without sinking it.
6. Safes in Venice are so considerate that this same safe will fall the distance through two apartments and a ground-level boat-shed area and land perfectly upright on its legs on the sea floor below and not, say, fall over on its face and prevent you from being able to open its door.
7. Donald Sutherland can hear the tumbler clicks of a safe's lock underwater while wearing a hooded wet suit AND over the sound of his and Mark Wahlberg's breathing through SCUBA gear.
8. Charlize Theron can hear glass cracking, but not breaking, through a steel safe door at least 4 inches thick AND over the sound of her electric drill. This is because she is Donald Sutherland's daughter.
9. In downtown L.A. you can drive Mini Coopers and ride large motor bikes along crowded sidewalks and through public concourses and into peopled buildings during busy weekday business hours and you will NEVER hit a single pedestrian.
10. Mini Coopers can perform all sorts of high speed stunt maneuvers, including through tunnels and up & down stairs and along water drains, while carrying tons of gold without smashing themselves into little pieces. Don't try this at home, boys and girls.
11. A mechanic you hardly know and re-hired only that day can be relied on to do, without any rehearsal, a perfect 10-second count down of an armored truck's progress through heavy traffic so it stops exactly within the section where you've laid your explosives.
12. If you are the good baddies you can, months later, re-steal from the bad baddie the 208 remaining gold bars distinctively marked with a Balinese dancer, and none of you will ever have the original Italian possessors of the 35 million dollars worth of gold track you down or come after you.
13. You can blow a giant hole through a major street, drive 3 mini's on public sidewalks and through a subway concourse, engage in a high speed chase through the city while being pursued by a rented helicopter and the LAPD will dispatch exactly 0 police.
14. Handsome Rob can bed any woman with just a smile.
15. Some cats need to be kept on a leash.
16) you can get your computer guy to do anything you need him to do as long as you motivate him the right way such as calling him the preferred name
17) Helicopters can easily fly inside cavernous buildings if they need to.
18) when a mastermind is busy planning to have a full security team and two decoy armored vehicles and a helicopter he is to consumed to have the team consider or question the two occupied cars parked on the street at the end of his driveway that have no reasonable business being there.
19) it's perfectly acceptable to root for thieves as long as they are loyal and have generally good intent and are shown to have better morals than the badder bad guy.
20) It takes precisely 7 minutes for the water police to show up, .....starting...... now.