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Heist
Superficiality rules the day in the Gene Hackman film Heist.
You expect plenty of smoke and mirrors when watching a film about thieves with deception and double deception generally the order of the day.
However, director David Mamet takes this too far with his superficially cool script and the disappointing, endless twists and turns that appear far too contrived.
The opening scenes are excellent, introducing you to the characters and what they do – plan and carry out heavy duty robberies.
Hackman stars as Joe Moore, an ageing robber looking for one last hit, while his right hand man Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo) wants to help his friend to an easy retirement.
Criminal financier Bergman, played by the excellent and menacing (yes, it’s true) Danny DeVito, stands in their way.
The fun in gangster flicks usually revolves around the planning of the big steal and its eventuation, but in Heist the storyline concentrates too much on the characters and their witty, but ultimately frustrating by-play.
There is no real sense of suspense building up around the job and the continual twists and turns of the story removes the possibility of that.
It just seems that Mamet was trying to be very clever, but in doing so he has produced a movie that is too contrived.
Ocean’s Eleven, which was released in the cinemas at about the same time, leaves Heist for dead.
Weekly recommended rental: Reservoir Dogs (1992) starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino. The best heist flick of the past 10 years.
Superficiality rules the day in the Gene Hackman film Heist.
You expect plenty of smoke and mirrors when watching a film about thieves with deception and double deception generally the order of the day.
However, director David Mamet takes this too far with his superficially cool script and the disappointing, endless twists and turns that appear far too contrived.
The opening scenes are excellent, introducing you to the characters and what they do – plan and carry out heavy duty robberies.
Hackman stars as Joe Moore, an ageing robber looking for one last hit, while his right hand man Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo) wants to help his friend to an easy retirement.
Criminal financier Bergman, played by the excellent and menacing (yes, it’s true) Danny DeVito, stands in their way.
The fun in gangster flicks usually revolves around the planning of the big steal and its eventuation, but in Heist the storyline concentrates too much on the characters and their witty, but ultimately frustrating by-play.
There is no real sense of suspense building up around the job and the continual twists and turns of the story removes the possibility of that.
It just seems that Mamet was trying to be very clever, but in doing so he has produced a movie that is too contrived.
Ocean’s Eleven, which was released in the cinemas at about the same time, leaves Heist for dead.
Weekly recommended rental: Reservoir Dogs (1992) starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino. The best heist flick of the past 10 years.
