Heist goes from lousy to even worse. The screenplay is so clunky, not a single cast member manages to sound believable. Familiar, likable actors from Kate Bosworth to Gina Carano to Morris Chestnut are buried under an avalanche of awful.
In the race to make the greatest number of crappy movies, Nicolas Cage has been De Niro's strongest competition. Now De Niro pulls way ahead.
Robert De Niro lazily rehashes his Casino shtick in Heist, a genre retread without a believable bone in its bruised and battered body.