This is a silently professional night-time jewel robbery , reduced to near-abstract essential and paced by a Tangerine score , sets the electric tone for Mann's follow-up to the Jericho Mile . Here a really professional robber makes one of the few mistakes in his meticulous career when he takes dangerous companions. He's contradictorily building and a risking a future mapped out as meticulously as any of his lucrative hi-tech jobs , testing his emotional and criminal independence to the limits , eventually recognising that he's either exercising or exorcising a death wish. Cheat him...and he'll blow you away ! .Tonight, his take home pay is $410,000...tax free !.
A philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool and long-standing musical score . The screenplay for this film was adapted from the novel "The Home Invaders", written by Frank Hohimer, an expert robber , in fact Hohimer was serving time in a state penitentiary at the time this film was in production . The picture packs action , violence , drama , shootouts with exciting scenes . And the final splatters bodies all over the pavement , somewhat compensating for the snail-like pace of much of the movie . Casting is frankly excellent , the main protagonists give first-class performances . Stars James Caan who gives a fine acting as the ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight . After The Godfather (1972), this was James Caan's favorite film of his own . He had stated that some scenes and specially his monologue in the diner was the set piece of which he was most proud in his long career . Being well accompanied by the beauty Tuesday Weld , as usual , wasted as his wife . There are various film debuts of important actors . James Belushi makes a notable debut as Caan's skilful associate . Dennis Farina was a Chicago policeman at the time of filming , he played a hoodlum . Conversely, John Santucci, who performed a corrupt cop, was a recently paroled thief, and was a technical advisor. And also Robert Prosky film debut who was over 50 years old at the time of his first performance and would go on to have a notorious career as a prestigious secondary.
The motion picture was competently directed by Michael Mann , in his ordinary style. Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann made his feature-film directorial debut with Thief (1981), followed by executive producing the television series Miami Vice (1984). He went on to direct Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), Collateral (2004), a film adaptation of Miami Vice (2006), Public Enemies (2009), and most recently, Blackhat (2015). As a producer, Mann's work includes Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), Hancock (2008), Texas Killing Fields (2011), and the HBO series Luck (2011) and Witness (2012). Rating : 6.5/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching . The pic will appeal to James Caan fans.
A philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool and long-standing musical score . The screenplay for this film was adapted from the novel "The Home Invaders", written by Frank Hohimer, an expert robber , in fact Hohimer was serving time in a state penitentiary at the time this film was in production . The picture packs action , violence , drama , shootouts with exciting scenes . And the final splatters bodies all over the pavement , somewhat compensating for the snail-like pace of much of the movie . Casting is frankly excellent , the main protagonists give first-class performances . Stars James Caan who gives a fine acting as the ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight . After The Godfather (1972), this was James Caan's favorite film of his own . He had stated that some scenes and specially his monologue in the diner was the set piece of which he was most proud in his long career . Being well accompanied by the beauty Tuesday Weld , as usual , wasted as his wife . There are various film debuts of important actors . James Belushi makes a notable debut as Caan's skilful associate . Dennis Farina was a Chicago policeman at the time of filming , he played a hoodlum . Conversely, John Santucci, who performed a corrupt cop, was a recently paroled thief, and was a technical advisor. And also Robert Prosky film debut who was over 50 years old at the time of his first performance and would go on to have a notorious career as a prestigious secondary.
The motion picture was competently directed by Michael Mann , in his ordinary style. Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann made his feature-film directorial debut with Thief (1981), followed by executive producing the television series Miami Vice (1984). He went on to direct Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), Collateral (2004), a film adaptation of Miami Vice (2006), Public Enemies (2009), and most recently, Blackhat (2015). As a producer, Mann's work includes Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), Hancock (2008), Texas Killing Fields (2011), and the HBO series Luck (2011) and Witness (2012). Rating : 6.5/10 . Better than average . Well worth watching . The pic will appeal to James Caan fans.