Mamet is an able director and he always gets the job done. As with all his other films, I will be there the day it opens. It still upsets me Mamet didn t try harder. Didn t put a Mamet spin on the material. As it is it s no different than, say, the latest tough-guy hooey that Wesley Snipes would make.
Cops never know what s going on and always arrive accidentally on the scene.
Kids are used as an easy way for a man to give up his friends. The older thieves don t believe the young, inexperienced man can do the crime at hand and discuss this at length. When Mamet arrived on the playwright scene, he reinvented how people used dialogue in their plays. He was a tidal wave that knocked people on their ass with his use of our language. But Mamet never sold out and has stayed remarkably fresh.