![]() ![]() He's got a young daughter who needs an expensive surgery, and has waited until days before to scare up the $300,000 (presumably, Pope's casino does not offer health benefits). Pope (De Niro) is a powerful, well-connected man on the eve of his retirement when one of his blackjack dealers, Vaughn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) asks for a loan. Galveston, Texas, seems to be just down the road. ![]() ![]() A title card reads "one week earlier" and the ensuing seven days glide by in minutes. "Somewhere," because the constraints of space and time don't seem to be much of a concern here. In this iteration, De Niro is the boss of a riverboat casino somewhere in Louisiana. With a bus full of people taken hostage, you'll think of the 1994 Jan de Bont classic "Speed." With Robert De Niro in a spray tan and chunky necklace, there are shades of his character in Martin Scorsese's "Casino." But with these references, "Heist" only succeeds in making you wish you were watching "Speed" or "Casino" instead. This is what it feels like to watch "Heist," a derivative action-thriller that is more of a pastiche of better films than an actual film itself. It's still legible, but not near the quality as the original. If you photocopy a photocopy of an original work, the image becomes blurry and indistinct. ![]()
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