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Blu B It's not bad the more you stay with it. The first half man is a mess. The government surveillance of the building and Anderson setting up the actual heist is so messy, jumpy, and feels like two completely seperate films. Than when it just focuses on the heist in the second half it's very close to good honestly. The direction isn't bad either but it just gets very boring, meandering, and ho hum in that first half. This just needed to focus on the heist itself and get rid of the stakeout stuff. The music is good but I wish it was used more. It's a funky 70's Quincy Jones that works well. The acting is alright. Again there is so many characterss and they all just blend in save for Balsam and Connery. Everything else is half decent. Any commentary on big brother is lost with the heist movie and tension gets hampered until the second half. It's difficult to recommend this to anyone besides hardcore fans of the director or any actor here. There isn't enough conspiracy or heist suspense to really fufill fans of either I feel. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/21/25 Full Review Jusztin N Outstanding cast is let down by average writing. This is a heist movie, as you are likely aware. The following may contain some minor spoilers, but won't be surprising if you are familiar with the genre. Key things that were missing from the plot: 1. The bunglers did not have a time table and leisurely went about the heist as if they had all the time in the world. 2. No-one monitory a police scanner. 3. No lookouts on the street with a two way radio ready to warn the crew of any suspicious activity. These missing elements ruined what would have been a highly entertaining movie. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/26/24 Full Review isla s This is very much a dated film. Its amusing in terms of seeing what I assume cutting edge technology was perceived as, at the time the film was made - there's lots of tapes, cassette tapes and loud beeping noises, esp. at the start of the film. Connery does pretty well in his role and there are some fairly exciting/entertaining moments but it did feel rather dull otherwise. I suppose you could argue that it highlights the surveillance of people without them knowing but with the main character being an ex-con, its hardly as if I feel entirely sorry for him and he's shown to be a bit of a womaniser, which doesn't exactly appeal to me either, shall we say. Its not an especially memorable film to me but its nostalgic and ok in general I suppose. I wouldn't recommend it as such, no. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A few days out of jail and John "Duke" Anderson (Sean Connery) is back with his lover Ingrid (Dyan Cannon) and already planning his next job: robbing every single apartment in her building with the help of a furniture van. To do the job right, he needs the right crew. So he gathers a team that includes antiques dealer Haskins (Martin Balsam), the safecracker known as The Kid (an incredibly young Christopher Walken) and Pop (Stan Gottlieb), an old-timer who is finally out of jail. However, Angelo (Alan King), the mob boss who funds this operation, forces him to bring along — and kill — "Socks" Parelli (Val Avery) as part of the job, making things even more complicated. This movie has a great cast, with Conrad Bain, Garrett Morris, Ralph Meeker*, Scott Jacoby and Margaret Hamilton in her last role. It's beyond prophetic in how overly watched we would be, as every step of the crew is watched, listened to and recorded by a number of government agencies, as well as a team of amateur radio operators. It was released one year to the day before Watergate, which announced just how watched we all are. Based on the book by Lawrence Sanders, the screenplay was written by Frank Pierso (Cool Hand Luke, Dog Day Afternoon) and diected by Sidney Lumet (Network, Serpico). It brought back Connery's career and stopped his typecasting as James Bond. *Meeker plays Edward X. Delaney, a continuing character of Sanders, who would be played by Frank Sinatra in The First Deadly Sin. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review jelisije j A surprisingly good movie about how the government uses surveillance against the public when Sean Connery is trying to pull the last heist he will ever do. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review jon c This is the first film to actually deal with the pervasiveness of surveillance technology from security cameras in public and hidden recording devices and Christopher Walken's film debut Based on the book by Lawrence Sanders The late Sean Connery is John "Duke" Anderson, a burglar recently released from prison who returns to his ex-girlfriend, Dyan Cannon's Ingrid after 10 years only to find her living in an expensive New York apartment building as the mistress of a wealthy man Duke plots to rob every tenant in the building in a single grab, and works quickly to hire his team of thieves But little do they know is that the building is under heavy surveillance from various agencies They could be caught at any moment pulling off this job Flashbacks show what's on the recordings getting the feedback from witnesses and the agents assigned to Duke and his crew It's a shame the actual heist doesn't happen until 57 min in I admit there's quite the surprise of the goods these guys find during the robbery And the last 10 minutes is quite the adrenaline rush A more muffled thriller until the very end Still it's all about technical government intrusion and echoes much of the Richard Nixon-era Even with a crime taking place no one can be traced back without being backed into a corner compromising everything Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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