Actors: James Caan, Tuesday Weld
Director: Michael Mann
I really wanted to like this more. Opening with one of the best action setpieces I've seen - not in terms of exhilaration but in terms of sheer cool, both on the confidence of Caan and the director - Thief rumbles through a bunch of character beats over the course of its bloated 120 minutes to arrive at a perfunctory conclusion. Mann does not seem entirely sure whether his main character lives in the real world or MovieWorld, but by the time he decides, I've decided that I don't really care about the character. There's some great shots in this, it's just a shame that it doesn't add up to something better.
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