Heist

Heist is a hard-boiled thriller about Joe Moore, an ageing thief who is forced into a new job by the fence Mickey Bergman. Bergman will only pay him for the last job he did once he has pulled off another one. For a long time Joe refuses, for he showed his face to a surveillance camera on his last job. On the other hand, he does not want to live in poverty when he has the chance to live in luxury for the rest of his days. One of Bergman's conditions is that his insufferable nephew Jimmy Silk joins Joe's gang so that he can keep a watchful eye on Joe.

Joe and his team are top professionals, so their biggest problem is not pulling off the heist, but the fact that in their world everyone is out to cheat everyone. It is a depressing experience to spend time in the company of these cynical and hardened criminals, who cannot trust anyone - least of all each other. There are absolutely no figures for the audience to identify with, and in the long run the misanthropy becomes unbearable.