| Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: November 9, 2001 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
As a movie, Heist is merely an amiable time-killer. But it presents a terrific argument for federalizing airport security.
Not only reminds us that there's a little larceny in all of us, it reminds us how much fun it can be to commune with our inner thieves.
Mamet takes exactly those qualities that we most prize in genre movies -- characters, cleverness and high style -- and refines them to a high shine.
If it's not up to the cups-and-balls elegance of previous Mamet movies like ''The Spanish Prisoner'' and ''House of Games,'' if it piles on more psychological fake-outs than is safe in a setup this size -- well, at least it's got that talk, that language, that thing Mamet does that is at this point as identifiable as the cadences of the Bard.
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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]
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.
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