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Heist movies are a dime a dozen, but a truly goodmovie heistis something you dont forget.
Sherrys sidepiece Val, while trying to hijack the gang after the heist, catches a bullet from George.
Some security guards probably take some bruises during the pandemonium around Maurices fight.
All in all, things devolve pretty quickly after the masterfully executed robbery itself.
is wearing a flannel Im pretty sureIhad in 1996, and Frankies rocking a quasi-mod jacket and crop-top set.
Theyll get a unified look going for their final robbery, but this is still a work in progress.
But the bank itself certainly does not make it out in one piece.
Unfortunately, their boss steals it and blows it on watches and hookers.
But each of those cuts is so deliberate and planned-to-the-millisecond that it feels a lot more graceful than that.
After beating her up for her lack of faithfulness (bonjour, 1950s!
Not feeling this one so much in 2019, my dude.
So dont even think about trying anything this obviously cool and fun-looking!
The joint in this case a bustling piazza in Turin had already been studiously cased.
Start with the gangs morning huddle at an abandoned, crumbling villa outside Turin beautiful!
Slippin and slidin through the arcades and galleries, yoinking a whole chicken off a cafe table?
Even the plans, as delivered via film reel by a debonair, smoking Beckermann, ooze panache.
Robot, eat your heart out) helps keep the grievous bodily harm to a minimum here.
Success: 10/20Or more like 50/50 literally.
Whether or not they make it out depends on exactly how greatthat idea Croker hasis.
The doors are blown open, and the loot is stolen before the police arrive.
Those three guards, though whoops.
Everyone knows their role Ron, Jimmy, LBJ, and Dick and plays their part.
Stakes: 1/15They just wanna ride those waves, man.
Style: 17/25The clown masks are pretty unsettling, as is the Jokers clown face under the clown face.
Stakes: 0/15For the lulz, of course.
Not finesse, but notnotentertaining.
Style: 21/25Here you have two great examples of heist aesthetics side by side.
They are a childs image of glamour and danger, and every scene with them is iconic.
Admittedly, the team is not terribly incognito, nor straying much outside their stylistic comfort zones.
But theyre the Muppets, and they make up for it in good vibes.
And Miss Piggy reliably brings some razzle-dazzle when she arrives in her spangly motorcycle outfit.
Are there any higher stakes?
A world where Miss Piggy is behind bars is not a world I want to live in.
Winstones seen-it-all retiree Gal, in the midst of his own crisis, practically sleepwalks through it.
Stakes: 13/15For the majority of the crew, this is just another robbery.
And thats worth more to Gal than anything else.
This is more of a chutzpah-and-muscle heist than anything else.
Style: 22/25TheFastmovies arent exactlyfashionmovies, but style isnt limited to looks.
), and (sigh, I guess) Roman.
Mias the cheese (something for the bread to hang on to).
Brian is the mayo (deceptively boring, but it all goes down not-so-great without him).
Han is the pickle (fun and surprising, a make-or-break crowd-pleaser).
Lack of Collateral Damage: 2/15I mean, therehadto be a cleaner way to do this.
The whole crew makes it out alive, at least.
Success: 20/20See: The Intro ofFast & Furious 6.
Turns out $100 million buys an awful lot of happiness and domestic bliss.
But no outfit will ever amount to the dazzling insta-movie-star cool ofCynthia Erivo running.
Stakes: 15/15These arent the only life-and-death stakes on this list.
But a body count is a body count, I suppose.
Success: 15/20What does success in 21st-century America even look like?Steve McQueen would ask.
But after two hours of the hard-boiled Veronica looking out for No.
There are acrobatics and zip lines.
There are disguises upon disguises.
Theres a whole fake vault constructed to practice in and create phony surveillance camera footage with.
A couple guards are knocked out, but nobody has to die for Danny Oceans pettiness.
Because money comes and goes, but memories with your cool criminal boyfriends are forever.
Final Score: 84/100
