One of the best films of the Nineties!

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2000)

This could be one of the best films of all time...action, suspense, a wonderful cast and a superb script! It plods along slowly building toward an incredible action finale. Meanwhile if you don't pay CAREFUL attention, you WILL miss important details. So you must see it twice, or even three times to fully appreciate the trick ending.
This is a story about a group of guys with little in common except that they are thieves and know of each other by reputation. They are arrested and jailed together by accident; or is it? Are they all searching for a malevolent villain who may or may not be an enigma of time-worn imagination? Or is he manipulating them in a carefully spun web of corruption and deceit? With a whole lot of money on the line for anyone who survives. But be wary if you have small children present. There are several scenes of pretty graphic and realistic violence.
Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his remarkable career with an excellent cast of supporting players.