Heist - The last coup

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Movie
German title Heist - The last coup
Original title Heist
Country of production Canada , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Mamet
script David Mamet
production Andrew Stevens
Elie Samaha
music Theodore Shapiro
camera Robert Elswit
cut Barbara Tulliver
occupation

Heist is a 2001 film starring Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito . He belongs to the heist genre .

action

This film is about one of the last big robberies by professional criminal Joe Moore and his friends Blane and Pincus. After the gang robbed a jeweler, the company's fence or financier, Mickey Bergman, takes the loot, but does not want to pay the three off until they do another, last job for him. In order to ensure that the gang does not trick him for breaking his word, Bergman sets the condition that his nephew Jimmy Silk be involved in the new action. However, since Moore was filmed without masking by the security cameras during the previous robbery, he would rather go into hiding immediately, for which he needed the money. Therefore he agrees to involve Silk in the action.

During the preparation for the coup, Silk turns out to be unreliable and unintelligent. Nevertheless, he seduces Moore's wife Fran, who then changes sides. Together with Fran, the four steal boxes from a Swiss plane at the airport, after which Silk knocks down after the other moors have left, because he also wants Fran to himself, and on the way to the meeting point explains to her that there is no other I'll give a meeting with Moore. Thereupon the car of the two gets into the opposite lane, has to avoid an articulated lorry and hurls against an obstacle. The boxes with the cargo are damaged and show that instead of gold, only washers were stolen. The sample bar also turns out to be a piece of lead glued with gold foil. The real gold is still on the plane, hidden in boxes of a load of metal parts that Moore and Blane had brought in on the same plane. As a deception, they had stuck the metal parts boxes with the Geneva gold transport seal so that they would be stolen. In the meantime, Moore and Blane collect the gold, which is still in the said cargo on the plane, disguised as employees of the company to which the cargo is addressed. Then they melt the gold in bar form.

Meanwhile, Bergman has Pincus kidnapped and blackmailed him by using violence against him and threatening his niece to reveal where the gold and the meeting point are. Fran, who has come to Bergman with Silk, is also put under pressure. Pincus is shot by Bergman's accomplice after the meeting point has been revealed.

Moore and Blane land on Moore's boat at the meeting point in the harbor. Moore appears first on the pier, which is full of boxes and loads, and is surprised at gunpoint by Bergman, his accomplices, Silk and Fran. Blane remains hidden unseen. While Bergman pressures Moore to find out where the gold is, Fran implores her husband to give Bergman the gold and Bergman to let him go with some money. He sees the gold-colored railing of the boat and believes that he has found the gold. But when you try to cut out a piece, it turns out that it is just highly polished, gold-glazed brass. After Silk and Fran left the meeting point, Bergmann wants to shoot Moore, who is then wounded in the thigh by one of Bergman's accomplices while trying to escape. Suddenly Blane emerges from his hiding place armed, whereupon a shootout develops, which ultimately only Moore and Blane survive. Bergman, seriously injured and lying defenseless on the ground, is shot by Moore. Blane asks him to transfer his share of the robbery and gives him the bank details. He urges Moore to leave the country soon and never return, whereupon they part.

Moore waits in a workshop hall with a brand new pick-up truck, loaded with black-painted poles, for his wife, who finally appears with Silk in tow. "Pinky was the price," says Moore, when it turns out for everyone to see that Fran has switched to Silk's side. "Partly, anyway," she replied and protested that she now belongs to Silk, after all he had sent her to him, which he shouldn't have done. She thinks Silk will come out the winner of the whole thing and asks him to keep Moore alive. Both drive away with a load of blackened poles. Moore looks after them unmoved, gets into an older truck that is standing to one side and is loaded with building materials and also leaves the hall with it. The layer of paint on a protruding rod on the garage door is scraped off, and shiny gold shows up. Obviously the two only removed lacquered iron rods from him, perhaps a gold rod underneath for test purposes, just in case. Moore lifts a tarpaulin on the loading area that hides a lot of shiny gold bars. He puts the scratched stick underneath and secures it with a black iron bar before driving off with a mischievous smile.

Reviews

"No further development of the genre, but a quickly told story about trust, friendship, power and the seduction of money."

“David Mamet - better known for eloquent chamber plays - shot an old-style crime thriller here. Thanks to the good actors and the sophisticated script - memories of ' House of Games ' are awakened - this is definitely exciting entertainment. "

- prism -online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heist - The last coup. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. prism