Insider could put a crew together if they wanted.

This guy is such a master, even his voice is cracked.

the fact this guy was so harsh with majority of his ratings not only showed how inaccurate theywhere but really hits home how good a job the ones that he rated high did

*"If DMX shows up at your house with a bazooka to open your vault... your problem's getting out of hand.."* _-Charlie Santore, Safe Technician, 2021_

Get more experts like this guy. A lot of the time they'll go "Nothing about this is realistic in any way...6/10." This dude gives no quarter!

"He's reading the 'paper', that's pretty accurate." Well, I guess every job needs its part of fun.

By far the best series that this channel does. People innately gravitate towards people who are masters of their craft, learning from them and enjoy the insights that they have gained from honing their techniques.

When he said "DMX rest in peace"....I automatically gave this video a thumbs up and became a fan of him.

His brutal honesty about the poorly done heist scenes lent a lot of credibility to the better done ones, and I really appreciate that. I feel like the experts don't want to be too harsh, even though they do provide great input about the reality of the situation. I'm definitely gonna watch a documentary about the Hutton Garden heist, given his enthusiasm for it. 10/10 would hire this guy to crack my cheap safe just to talk to him.

"Just to be generous, we'll give it a three" I do not want this man to be my professor. I'd failed his class for sure

Deadly booby traps were common at one point in history. We were remodeling a very old building in the downtown of a small city and the prior owners had left several safes. One of which was locked so we had a local lock smith open it. It was empty all except the glass vials attached to the door which was a booby trap. He said it was inert chemical that was like pepper spray but when we researched the safe we found it could have contained one of 2 dangerous chemicals. One was a very deadly gas that was used in the 1st world war that could spread into the public. $10,000 later the owners had it removed by professionals but we had to secure the building by for several days till the experts got there.

I was not ready for Charlie Santore to pay his respects to DMX, but I give him a 10/10 for that move

His ratings are harsh but accurate. The other raters are being far too generous because they don't want hate. This guy literally gives no Fs. True master.

These ratings are BRUTAL compared to many other experts of their field.

I’ve worked in tech support for a Safe manufacturer for 20 years. His analysis is spot on. I am pretty sure I have spoken with him or his techs before working on our products.

I want this guy back. He is so entertaining and very insightful

This guy is like my dad rating my life and career. "I want to be generous so i will give a 2.75/10 "

I feel like his adding 0.5 to everything sent the Insider video editors into a real panic. Discussions were had.

This was like the most legit one of these videos I've seen, and I just watched the one where the Yakuza had his pinkie cut off. He brought research and tools to the shoot. Something tells me this was like a grueling 8 hour shoot they edited down to 18 minutes, and the whole crew are now certified vault technicians.

I love how brutally honest and real this guy is

As an ex-Blockbuster employee: anything left behind that creates questions and mystery was fully intentional. Our store was stripped bare during a closing sale so a lot of fully strange things we forgot we hid inside pillars and under cabinets surfaced and it was genuinely hilarious and sad at the same time.

I find this hilarious, adorable and intimidating at the same time, how he's carrying his toolbox with him, and his tools in almost every pocket, for an interview.. like he has to rush back to work right after reviewing random shitty movie scenes.

I'm glad he's more critical than others because maybe some movie producer will take notes that they should hire a guy like this when doing a whole movie on cracking safes you better have an expert on hand !

I just love listening to people talk about their passions on these and seeing how incredibly knowledgeable they are about it

I like how he saying ‘that is a real tool’ and then bring up his tool to show it 😂

"DMX, rest in peace" He's a real one

"To open 4 locks in half an hour is... pure fantasy" The Lock Picking Lawyer: "Am I a joke to you???"

"Exercise that part of my shadow" - this guy is fully integrated. Love that turn of phrase.

This man has: -slenderman's body -the voice of an annoyed grandpa -the knowledge of the lockpickinglawyer

His comment about the ant man clip blew my mind, never thought about that, and he pointed it out straight away

"4 locks in 30 minutes. You would bring a boring crew" The you hear in the background, "This is the lockpicking lawyer and what I have for you today is a 4 lock vault door".

One of the best ones I have seen up till now. Great job

This guy gets 10/10. He shouted out DMX. Verified Ruff Ryder

"Exercise that part of my shadow" .... this dude has def gotten into safes he wasn't supposed to

This guy is so knowledgeable in his field. Just a joy to watch

I think I may have to get my old man to do one of these. He’s been a “Safe-Cracker” for over 50yrs. Could be entertaining

When I was younger in my early 20's ( I'm 53 now) I started an apprenticeship as a locksmith in Houston. For 2 years I relayed locks learned how to pick locks etc. My master locksmith decided to take me with him to open a ship's safe that the purser had lost the combination to. He knew the first number only. So I watched as my instructor tried to manipulate the combo for about an hour then he said we have to drill it open. He had many books from safe manufacturers made for that purpose that specifically told you where to drill exactly, how deep to drill etc. Now this was a hardened steel govt safe about 4ft tall and I had no idea what the procedure was. But using the tools designed to open this safe, with the correct measurements it still took 8 hours to drill out and probably 40 bits. The drill is hooked to chains and a lever to put pressure on the drill and the hardened metal would burn up the bits after just a few minutes. My job was to put cutting oil on the bit where it contact the safe. After that I just decided keying locks was more for me. Much respect to the guys that open safes for a living, it's not glamorous and most the time very difficult.

This channel never dissapoint us. Always come up with an interesting topic🙌

As a locksmith with little safe experience, I found this incredibly fascinating

What a awesome man. He knows his stuff, criticises very harsh but accurate, and when this happens 16:22 he's just like: "This is the best". Great

3:25 That’s actually something brought up in the ‘Artemis Fowl’ books when they were still good. There’s a material that can make a perfect impression of a person’s fingerprint, but just like he says, it’s an inverse, with ridges where there should be grooves. Similarly, the mastermind of the plan knew this, because he knew that he would need to hide this detail from his less-scrupulous cohorts because the alternative was cutting off the thumb of the only guy that could get through the door.

Finally - an episode expert who rates toughly and accurately!

One of the best of this kind of video..........Such a nice but honest guy.

This is one of the best ones yet! He's hilarious.

Soon they’ll have zombies rating World War Z.

This guy was great.

“They’re telling kids that they don’t need to learn math and that there are no right answers to math,” lol wat

A really enjoyable and informative video narrated by someone who has served their apprenticeship; learning by doing - excellent 10/10.

Love the Oxy Lance scene in “Thief”. My father was a VP for several banks. Told me he had a branch manager get locked in the walk in safe. The bank paid a profession safecracker 10k to get the safe open with out destroying the lock. The bank manager was super pissed she got locked in.

The quiet joy in this guy's eyes as he talked about the stuff in the bestbuy safe is just marvelous

Crazy how this guy can rob 300-500 safes in a year, do an interview, and still not be caught. Thats some skill

He gets to perfectly know his job and still use it for good not for stealing. Thumbs up! Great review.

I love this! I’m a locksmith and safe-tech and this cracks me up. We always joke about these scenes. People picking locks is almost worse. They almost never have any turning pressure. 🤣

"I get to exercise that part of my shadow" That pretty much brought the man into focus, for me. Extremely intelligent as well as a deep thinker that knows himself. Jung would agree.

This has got to be the best episode of tge expert series. The guy is brutally honest and insightful. This is what i want to see from an expert.

This guy is amazing. Like...how do you get into this line of work? To say "I can crack the lock on your safe" has got to be the highlight of this occupation.

So glad to see “Thief” get some recognition ! Surprised you didn't showcase the bypass and burn through (oxy-lance) on the last job but still nice to see it mentioned !

I love that he showed respect to DMX, I just wish they had a Bad Santa clip to show him!

You mean, the only 1 that got a 10/10 was the 1 that really happened? This guy’s a badass tho. By giving them all low numbers he’s basically telling us we’re all entertained by stupid sh*t! Love him!

man, his look is so simple yet so so styled (y)

DMX with a bazooka will be the best safecracker ever

i can see his face, therefore this is NOT the lockpicking lawyer

Great video.....Never forget swinging the door on the vault at the DeBeers diamond mine in the NWT/Canada when it was being built back years ago(about the size of the door on the fake Price Is Right safe😁)......

Great video, I am a GSC Certified safe technician myself, been workingon safes for more that 20yrs.

Jeff Sitar was the best safecracker ever. The very best. And that largely due to his extraordinary sense of touch in his fingers. He claimed that he opened almost every safe he worked on by touch alone, with the only exceptions being safes that were too badly rusted or damaged and had to be opened with tools. Sadly, Jeff died a couple years ago. A great loss to the safecracking world.

Most honest ratings I've seen for these breakdowns.

Great video. Love the honesty

Great guest! Love these vids

Master safecracker *roasts* 10 safecracking Heist in movies and TV

3:26 FInally someone said it!!! They do this in every movie: they take someone's fingerprint off a surface and put it on latex or rubber or whatever and use that as if they haven't just made an inverse of the fingerprint they actually need.

The best of the Insider videos I've seen so far. Good turn of phrase too: 'vaccum cleaner hooked up to a xerox machine' lol

That was really cool. His expertise is fantastic!! I enjoy this channel quite abit.

Sometimes it is easier to either remove the safe from the wall (if it is small) or just go through the wall bypassing the locking mechanism altogether if you don't give a crap about the condition you leave things in. Like in Ant Man. I am pretty sure it would have been easier to just break through the wall with a sledgehammer than open the door.

Is anyone going to acknowledge how rad this dudes shirt is?!?

I love the air drill making circ saw sounds.

In the opening of Thief, he is really cracking a rea safe. Michael Mann is a bit of a pioneer in technical realism. His philosophy is that an actor should be able to do what his character is doing. One of my favorites, is that fir Collateral, he made Tom Cruise get a job as a delivery man and deliver packages until he could do it without being recognized.

This guy doesn't sugarcoat at all and one of the best experts I've seen in your videos so far, get him to do more video please.

I love experts who not only criticise things but also have some stories and senses of humour. Love this man

Ok, that was extremely fun and educative!

best guest ever, critical and honest.

Was really hoping they would show him the episode of Thunderbirds where Parker had to open a bank safe (twice).

I like that he mentioned the glass relocking devices and the way The Thieves showed the drilling stopped before hitting glass. I don't like that The Italian Job got poor marks for them not drilling - mainly because I don't think he was given the full scene where Charlize Theron first drills the safe but hits the glass. She can hear it crack but stops before it can fully shatter and has no choice but to try manually. On top of that, the safe they're expecting is one without the glass relocking device and it's not the one in the truck. They're not prepared for what they have so I have to wonder if Mr Santore was given the full picture or just the manual cracking segment.

Wow, that was a _great_ point he made about lifting the fingerprint and applying it to silicone.

The knowledge he shared was tremendous ❤

I love these videos so much. No matter the topic, you always seem to bring in such interesting and knowledgeable experts

I like how he just casually spawns drill bits…I was wow magic🤣😂

lol. so good. Right off callin' it without sugar then, 'I gotta be generous' with a 3. Quality analysis. Good stuff.

I've been a locksmith for a couple years now, and this man is so immensly similar to someone I know that it's kind of scary. The idea that locksmiths are all safe specialists/safe cracker/safe technician is a immense misconception. I and many of my co-workers are no where near as knowledge about safes specifically as this man here, a true master. Although the knowledge between safe work and normal residential/commercial and high-security locks, just locksmithing in general, have some overlap, they mostly stay completely separate fields, each requiring a massive amount of knowledge and experience. Often times safe cracking is either considered completely separate or a specialization of locksmithing. I have taken on some safe work in the past, and if you're dealing with base factory safes, and know the model and brand, professionals can get access to drill points. I've only encounted it once, where a professional had augmented an exisiting factory safe, moving the position of the glass, adding an additional pannel and relocker, and moving the postion of the factory relocker, which made everything so much harder. I'm just thankful they didn't try to leave the cables for the relockers in the path of the desired drill points. You're never supposed to drill that far anyways, but still. For any professional they need information from the client, and the job changes wildly whether they need the lock functional after it's been worked on, or if destruction is a valid option. Getting the drill points for the safe is a good idea, but if that'ds not possible, due to a lack of information, then boring holes to scope out what's inside the main door, or whats on the back of the main door is a huge benefit. If you're luck and whoever owns the safe is a moron and left the sides or top of the safe open and easily accessable, that is easily the fastest way in, since the walls of a safe are significantly thinner and weaker than the thick fully steel door. Most of the work I do is on household or commercial locks, not safes, but it's always something that has been facinating to see professionals in action, and also infuriating when people expect locksmiths to crack safes at the same level as safe cracking specialists, when most of the work is entirely separate. Also a hint for people with portable fire safes, is that many of the can just be popped open just by pushing the bottom and top of the safe in separate directions. Sentry safes are notoriously bad with that, bust them open with your bare hands in 2 seconds. What alot of people don't realise is that many times the non-destructive path to lockwork will end up costing the customer far more. From my experience, which is limited with safes, is that there are few parts that can be easily replaced if destructive methods are used, and many end up damaging the face of the door, leaving the safe in a non-reparable position, in that case you will need to replace which will cost more money. On the other hand deadbolts on front doors often have standarized cylinder sizes that can be easily replaced should they be drilled out. Many times a locksmith will only attempt raking or bumping a lock, seeing if a cylinder is easily pickable, before drilling a lock, since taking any more time trying to manipulate a lock open, which may never open if there are interal issues with the cylinder like rusted, snapped or bent parts, tailpiece, bolt, etc, will end up charging the customer more in labor then drilling the cylinder and replacing it would have costed. It's not that the locksmith couldn''t have stayed and picked it for longer until it opened, but because if you can do a job faster, charge the customer less and produce the same result, then why wouldn't you.

we need more people like him he’s too real

Hire this guy for a movie about a heist, it would be incredible seeing a lock be ACTUALLY picked

I was gonna be pissed if you didnt do Thief. Great video!

Charlie the most interesting "how real is it" expert! Want to see more Charlie! The Mike Earmantraut of safe crackers!! Props for the DMX shout out.

Totally love this series. So much knowledge and real adventure life you would never hear of. Great characters too! Salute.

To be fair in "The Italian Job" they did try to drill it but she cracked the glass inside it and had to do it by hand

I love his appreciation for his craft

The coolest rating video on this channel.

Very much enjoyed this - a real fellow that is good at his trade being mightily disappointed by how Hollywood does it :lol:. I'm a SCADA engineer and though control systems come up seldom in movies when they do they are always atrocious ... so I have a tiny understanding of his pain :D. The worst for me was in Die Hard 4 as it was a SCADA for power T&D, which is my actual, precise, job in an already niche field where the skill set is rare! ROFL. EDIT: As others have said here in the comments, the one that gets a really good score stands out extra well from the trash that came before because you know by then this guy takes no prisoners :)! And I actually gave him some applause at the end, he impressed me so.

i really like his judgement and honesty, you need more people like him rating.

His a master you even feel experience in his voice and attention to details is amazing

Very fascinating video!