This movie has an exciting build-up, but loses me a bit in its main event. The first half delivers exactly what a crime drama needs: smooth dialogues, colorful characters, and a fair amount of tension. Then we get the actual heist, which suffers a bit from flat direction and is just plain overlong. These guys sure love to take their sweet time for everything, I know they don't want to cause panic but seriously, take everything and run. The plan makes little sense anyway. The subplot with the government spying on everyone seems a bit redundant, and could have been left out altogether. It's pretty irrelevant, and it has no effect on the story developments. This movie is still fun to watch though, mainly because of the actors. Sean Connery delivers a particularly charismatic performance as the bad guy with the heart of gold, and an amazingly young Christopher Walken only sweetens the deal. I also enjoy the visual style of this movie, then again I enjoy the visual style of every 70s crime movie. The heist genre has better things to offer, but this is a pretty enjoyable piece of work.
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