The Opportunists is a 1999 British-American crime drama film, written and directed by Myles C. R. Connell, and starring Christopher Walken, Cyndi Lauper, Donal Logue, and Vera Farmiga.

Victor "Vic" Kelly (Christopher Walken) is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt.

Given a view of the facility, including being shown the triple combination-lock vault, Vic then goes to work on practicing his safecracking skills for the big day.

The auto mechanic takes one last shot at the lucrative robbery with his Irish cohort to pay off his debts.

Vic becomes locked in the vault, while the fake cousin takes a bag of cash and makes his escape from the scene.

The Irish cohort has a change of heart and returns with a bag of cash taken from Vic at the scene at the crime.

"[5] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, gave a mixed review, writing: "The Opportunists is skillfully made, yet the film would have been better if it had tapped a bit of that Walken madness to bust out of its drab, poky little-people symmetries.