Heist

David Mamet is just the guy to scratch my itch for caper movies. Thus Heist, in which Gene Hackman and his crew are forced to pull one last job for Danny DeVito. But the kicker is that DeVito's nephew Sam Rockwell has to come along. Of course, there are complications, and things go wrong, and there are double-crosses, and double-double-crosses, and, because it's a Mamet screenplay, Ricky Jay plays the guy who gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop. The job in question is the theft of a shipment from a Swiss company. Much planning is involved, and much setup, and the payoff for the "why are they doing that?" in the first third isn't until the heist is underway in earnest. While some of the dialog could have been written by George Lucas, much of it is classic Mamet: witty, fluid, evocative. Well worth two hours of your time.