Heist in the Town

Rating: 7/10 (21 June 2011)

All the heist movies have more or less the same story - bunch of tough guys (sometimes an odd girl with mannish persona) plan together to pull out the perfect crime. Everything goes on fine with a hair line finish. And finally some goof up happens. An idiosyncratic intelligent cop gets to the root and nabs them. One of them dies heroic and the other surrenders. Well, there are some movies where the thugs are never get caught, but you can expect a sequel of it soon.
What distinguishes a good heist movie from a bad one - is the ingenuity of the plan.
The town is not ingenious but rather it has got a romantic angle to it. Rest predictable. I was not a fan of Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker, but in this one, he impresses. Ben Affleck directs himself and Rebecca Hall pretty well.
Watchable, if not memorable. Masks were good.