Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Mr. Mann may well become a very good theatrical film maker but, among other things, he's going to have to learn how to edit himself, to resist the temptation to allow dialogue that is colorful to turn, all of a sudden, into deep, abiding purple.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
It's one of those films where you feel the authority right away: This movie knows its characters, knows its story, and knows exactly how it wants to tell us about them.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
A philosophical thriller filled with modernist cool.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
A slick Chicago crime-drama with a well-developed sense of pathos running throughout.