Wolff rating: FAIR
Plot summary: A cat burglar is pulled in for one last big score.
Biased, pithy comments: Yawn. De Niro was boring. How can this be? He's playing a cat burglar, and I don't care. He's a mousy, dull cat burglar with a girlfriend who is barely there, and a pair of artless, uninteresting cronies. Brando must have been rolled in to each scene and deposited into his chair to spout off some barely-understandable giblets about money and trusting him, but he could have just stayed in the trailer. And Norton; good golly, I got tired of him. Sure, it's a thankless part, one that exists as a plot point that somehow comes to be the focus of the film, but could he shout at De Niro any more? I don't think so. It takes forever to get to the big heist, and then when it's happening, I'm thinking, ``So, would it be so bad for these criminals to get caught? They're a bunch of scumbags.'' Eh. Skip.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Basett.
Directed by: Frank Oz