Review of Heist

Last decades have produced dozens of heist-related movies, some of even with the title (The) Heist, and a number of those movies are somewhat conceptional, with interesting turns and inclusion of character actors, e.g. Heat, Ocean Eleven, The Bank Job, Now You See Me, etc., thus the more recent ones could/should bring forth some new angles or elements, which is definitely a challenge. The movie in question has Robert De Niro and randomly witty use of flashbacks, but uneven script and unrealistic solution together with obvious references to famous heist and other action movies (e.g. Speed) make it just another brick in the wall in the line of them. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Luke Vaughn is pleasant, but not stronger than De Niro - what the script anticipates, and other performances are just trivial, not bad, but just as you might expect. Due to the length and intensive ending, however, you can still watch with without blah! feelings.

So, the Heist is okay for those fond of action movies but not too familiar with those depicting similar topics/elements. For the rest, it is just a 1,5-hours killing time, with a few interesting twists, but with too many familiar or predictable scenes.