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Great reviews for this "cheeky, blackly comic heist picture" (Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), the debut from British director Guy Ritchie.
The tight, clockwork construction of his early masterpiece, the heist drama The Killing , is gloriously in sync--and then bitterly at odds--with the robbery's unraveling.
A few critics like this old-fashioned heist flick starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones despite its unoriginality: "It works because it is made stylishly, because Connery and Zeta-Jones are enormously attractive actors, and because of the romantic tension between them" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A slew of critics finds the whole thing a bit off: Connery has 40 years on Zeta-Jones, and the highlight of the film is Zeta-Jones' spandex-clad "demi-soft-core tai chi" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) as she attempts to evade an optical security system in the process of ripping off a priceless gold mask.
Neal had ditched his freebuick, but apparently we looked like some hipsters who had pulled off a jewelry heist downtown.
Its deadpan attitude and traditional plot--thieves heist jewelry and then double-cross one another--are said to hark back to classic film noir.