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The director is Scott Mann, who brought us a ridiculously over-the-top and supremely entertaining movie in his debut feature The Tournament, so he could have been the right man for that job. It’s not like we’re dealing with a big-budget wide-release movie, either, so a premise like that might have even been possible – there isn’t as big of a risk and therefore not as much reason to be a cookie cutter. How much more entertaining a movie would this be if it was actually the Pope and a giant talking dog? Unfortunately, both “The Pope” and “The Dog” are nicknames. The robbery goes awry, so they wind up hijacking a bus in an attempt to escape, only to find themselves on the run from both the cops – led by a sympathetic officer played by Gina Carano – and The Pope’s number two man, The Dog ( Morris Chestnut).

The plot sees a casino dealer named Luke ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan) team up with a disgruntled bodyguard, Cox ( Dave Bautista), to rob a casino owned by The Pope ( Robert De Niro) to pay for treatment for his sick daughter.

Speed came out 21 years earlier, after all – and now don’t you feel old? 21 years. It’s so simple and so easy to picture that it’s surprising it took us this long to make it.

It would be an incredibly easy movie to pitch to a studio, though: “So, it’s a combination of a caper film and Speed.” That’s likely how the entire pitch went down.

The plot hits all of the beats you’d expect from a, well, heist movie. That’s about as bland as it gets, losing perhaps only to Spy for 2015’s most generic title. Science Fiction – Action – Adventure – Mystery – Thriller – Dystopian Fiction – International Fugitive / Professional Thief – Experimental Military Technology – Subconscious Mind Infiltrate – Constructed Dreams – Valuable Corporate Secrets Heist – Espionage-Heist Action Thriller – Corporate Espionage – New Mission – Subconscious Mind Implanting (Inception) – Deception – Manipulation – Dazzling Maze – Disbelief – Distrust – Fear – Paranoia – Escape Thriller – Psychological Mystery Thriller – Femme Fatale – Dead Wife's Obsession – Emotional Stress – Love-Loss Trauma – Psychosis – Grief Trauma – Guilt Complex – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – Perception-Reality Dichotomy – Repressed Emotions – Defence Mechanism – Derealization Symptom – Fraudian Theory – Puzzle Film – Complex Storytelling – Non-Linear Timeline – Multi-Layered Plot – Self-Conscious Narration – Dream-Like Reality – Others – Symbolism – Existentialism – Surrealism – Intelligent Film – T o p – Best 10's – F a v e – Re-Watch Value – U.S.A.I suppose a movie that’s titled “ Heist” isn’t one that we should expect to push many boundaries.

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