What is 12 12 12, the new heist series from Apple TV, worth? (critical)

Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan oppose each other for the heist of the century, told in three temporalities. An ambitious mechanism, but which struggles to keep its promises.

It is a series of heists with an enticing concept, which comes in three stages justifying its title: twelve months to prepare the coup, twelve hours to carry it out, twelve days to assume the consequences. This is the principle of 12 12 12, a new Apple TV series available today on the platform.

The robbery in question? That of the safe of a bank in Zurich. The Galvin brothers, stored away from their cars after a heist in Newark which ended in blood, are forced to return to service. A mysterious French woman offers to steal a billion dollars. A sum discreetly transferred to a Swiss establishment by the Russian mafia, before a new law obliges Switzerland to lift the anonymity of accounts hosted in its banks.

How to pull off such a move? And above all, how to get out of it afterwards? Between meticulous preparation and tracking across Europe, with an FBI agent on their trail, 12 12 12 is a pure suspense thriller.

The problem is…