Top 5 Heist Movies: Get Your Adrenaline Rushing With The Plotting And Planning
December 3rd, 2010 - 11:38 am ICT by Sampurn Wire
5. Ronin (1998): The star cast is a stellar one and the car chase is something that still now cannot be matched. The double crosses that keep you glued and the action just takes your breath away.
4. Quick Change (1990): If you want a heist movie where you can laugh too without being serious Bill Murphy’s Quick Change is for you, it’s funny yet gritting.
3. Italian Job (2003): It rarely happens where re-makes are better than the source film, but Italian Job of 2003 is one such film, where the heist is over-the top, impossible ones and Mini Coopers suddenly becomes the cool cars for a change and the revenge plot to works out fine.
2. Reservoir Dogs (1992): Not all heist films ends with the crook leaving with the money, but there are some where the crooks die too and you don’t know whom to blame but you do sympathize with them. Reservoir Dogs is that kind of a film for you.
1. Its tough deciding between these two films: Heat (1995): Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, teams up for a cat and mouse game. It has everything that a heist film needs to have with loads of action, rash robbery scenes and gritty lines, one of the best heist movies ever.
Ocean’s Eleven (2001): A re-make of 1960 and it is still as riveting as ever with a huge ensemble cast. It’s funny, it’s gritty and it’s huge tongue-in-the-cheek heist film.
–Sampurn Wire
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