HEIST is a generally fun caper film with enough surprises to keep your finger off the stop button. An aging Gene Hackman leads a group of professional thieves employed to nab a golden shipment from a landed plane. There are plenty of interesting human angles here, with the viewer never quite sure who to trust or who will betray whom next (though you certainly start to catch on). The diminutive Danny Devito makes for a rather tired, one-dimensional villain, but the believability of Hackman's burglar-with-morals helps overcome this and other weaknesses. As you'd expect, the undisputed highlight is the clever climactic heist.
Review of Heist
