Film Review – Heist

In the plainly titled “Heist,” the production labors to merge a standard crime thriller with elements of “Speed,” dusted with some off-the-shelf emotional obstacles for the characters. Director Scott Mann (“The Tournament”) has all the right ingredients for junk food cinema in front of him, but no real clue how to assemble a frothy feast of exploitation. “Heist” is only enjoyable when it remains on the move, racing past logic and repetition with convincing energy. Applying the brakes to detail worry only reinforces flimsy screenwriting and iffy casting, losing the movie’s appeal as it struggles to build a more dramatically sound offering of complete nonsense. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com