David Mamet drives us crazy with a characteristically convoluted caper film that's a lot more about attitude and sleight of hand than it is about action. Mischievous, but you really have to go with the flow.
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11/09/01
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Heist (2001)
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Reviews Counted:125
Fresh:82
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Heist didn't cover any new ground, but the cast and Mamet's expertise with witty banter make it worthwhile.
Theatrical Release:Nov 9, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $23,287,872
Synopsis: Written and directed by David Mamet, HEIST is a crime thriller that follows aging master thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) as he plans one last robbery before literally sailing off into the sunset.... [More]
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay
Director: David Mamet
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Reviews for Heist
Top CriticThe Score got away clean, without resorting to violence. Heist isn’t so lucky. This house of cards goes down in a hail of bullets.
11/08/01
Not nearly as clever or engrossing as the best of Mamet's numerous neo-film noir scripts.
11/08/01
A neat, bouncy, minor-key crime procedural that shakes no rafters.
11/06/01
Top CriticGreat verbiage aside, the red herrings and manipulations boil down to too much of a good thing.
11/07/01
Once you pull away its layers and discount the occasional running, jumping and gunplay, is simply more of the same.
11/09/01
It's consistently fun, occasionally funny, and will have viewers on the edges of their seats on more than one occasion.
11/04/01
Top CriticAn exhilaratingly tense thriller that benefits from an elaborate array of rapid-fire twists and the sharp, delicious, cadence of David Mamet dialogue.
11/07/01
Heist is smart, beautifully written, wonderfully plotted and brought to life by a terrific cast. We're not sure it gets much better than that.
11/09/01
A lively caper film with snappy dialogue and interesting characters.
03/16/02
A throwback to the kind of hard-boiled yarns the late Don Siegel used to crank out in his sleep.
06/05/02
It's only skin deep.
11/10/01
Heist not only reminds us that there's a little larceny in all of us, but reminds us as well how much fun it can be to commune with our inner thief.
09/24/01
Top CriticFast-paced entertainment that doesn't pander.
11/13/01
A self-indulgent exercise in senseless word-love and misguided nepotism.
11/06/01
While Heist doesn’t exactly rank alongside classics like House of Games and The Spanish Prisoner, it certainly has a beat that you can dance to.
11/08/01
Passable but never exciting.
11/08/01
Top CriticThe film noir that Mamet strives for is lost in the many twists and turns of plot manipulation that make up the bulk of “Heist.”
11/20/01
If Mamet isn't quite as ahead of the audience as he usually is, his ear for crackling dialogue and intelligent attention to detail is still very much in evidence.
01/03/02
Heist is satisfying in other ways, particularly seeing the terrific cast ... chew at Mamet's dialogue like Hollywood film actors starved for substance.
11/08/01
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