Heist (2015)

A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus. Heist has a similar plot (to an extend) like Speed since there's an entire plot arc of the robbers hijacking a bus. Jeffrey Dean Morgan does a really good job, Dave Bautista has really made a big name for himself since 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy where he played Drax and he does a good job as well and the same goes for Robert De Niro and Kate Bosworth. This is no perfect film but it was fun and interesting enough in order to make me care for it's characters and the plot and for that it gets a 7/10!

Why invest in A list actors if you're also going to put them next to actors who couldn't pull off an Arby's commercial? Why invest in quality actors and then give them 3 minutes of screen time? Why introduce a main character as the initial criminal mastermind, and then morph him into a knuckle dragging moron? Why allow a script with nonsensical details go forward? Are you THAT lazy? OK...is JD Morgan's character Diniro's son? Is the sick kid his grandchild?This movie was a hot mess.

So I thought this movie was something totally different. I actually thought this was a movie that came out years ago in which DeNiro played a burglar alongside Edward Norton. Come to find out that the title of that movie was The Score. Although there was a movie called Heist from 2001 with Gene Hackman. This was neither of those. This wasn't nearly as intelligent as either of them. In fact this movie was hardly watchable, which is extremely disappointing since DeNiro was in it. The plot is fairly simple considering the title: there was a heist. Negan, er um Jeffrey Dean Morgan, plays a struggling card dealer whose daughter is sick. He needs a ton of money to keep her on the list for a critical surgery. I didn't get it wrong, I said he needed money to keep her on a surgery list. I never knew you had pay for that. So the scene is set with that simple backstory. And everything that followed was truly simple. The entire operation, the behavior of the principal actors, and the decision making was appalling. A-PALL-ING. There was a series of some absolutely deplorable decisions that made no sense. I know that misdirection was the driving force behind a lot of the events but like Danny Glover said in Lethal Weapon, "I'm too old for this ****". Be more creative, be more intelligent, or just be better.

Great film and the cast did very well. Especially dave bautista. Throughly enjoyable film and would watch again. Don't get drawn into the negatives of plot or story holes reviews. Just enjoy this for what it is. A Great film...The other cast played the characters to a tea and de Niro was a class act. Liam Neeson would of suited this film so well... If you like Neeson films ull love this one! Also my first film I watched with the main act and hope he does more films!!The twist is also brilliantly executed and deserves better reviews on that alone.