Heist

Name: Heist
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: November 9, 2001
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon

2001

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: November 9, 2001 | R

Starring: Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon

Summary: A smart, complex ensemble about a masterfully-minded gold robbery. (Warner Bros.)

Director: David Mamet

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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Stephen Hunter

Mamet loves two things: scams and dialogue. This movie is rich with both. Read full review

Peter Travers

Mamet -- crafts tangy, well-seasoned dialogue that a good cast can feast on. And this cast is prime. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

An exciting caper, though sometimes a trying one, with great dollops of self-parodying dialogue that will test your loyalty to Mr. Mamet's way with words.

David Denby

Hackman works with a joyous authority that seems to come out of the experience of the character he's playing. He liberates David Mamet from David Mamet. [12 Nov 2001, p. 139]

Mike Clark

Passable but never exciting, Heist is on a level with those minor Burt Lancaster action pics the actor's name helped bankroll in the '70s. Read full review

William Arnold

You've already seen this movie, right? Just a few months ago. It was called "The Score." Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

With a movie like this, there's no risk of spoiling the ending, because the entire plot is merely a formality trudging toward a foregone conclusion. The viewer's biggest challenge is to survive fits of yawning so violent they could disrupt ornithic migratory patterns. Read full review

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TeeK

Jan 21, 2008

Best heist movie I have seen, though the pleasure is hidden in the details and the many twists and turns the plot takes. Heist rewards really only those viewers who pay attention, as if Mamet made a nice movie for the casual watcher and an excellent one for the detail-obsessed. Point in Best heist movie I have seen, though the pleasure is hidden in the details and the many twists and turns the plot takes. Heist rewards really only those viewers who pay attention, as if Mamet made a nice movie for the casual watcher and an excellent one for the detail-obsessed. Point in case (attention -here comes a spoiler): when the gold bars get molten into boat railings, the railings are solid, not hollow. At the end, when Hackman lets his wife and her lover steal the gold from him, they entices them to take the wrong ones - hollow tubes. This detail is typical for the whole movie. Overlooking such finesse lets a viewer underestimate and underrate Heist grossly.… Expand

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