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I like the whole trilogy. Even as I watched the first one for the first time, though, a slight lack of tension stood out. The bulletproof confidence level of Danny & Rusty, for starters, told us the plan wasn't going to fail despite everything that goes wrong.
Subjectivity is the primary problem persistently plaguing people, @@arunkeshavadas7171. But criticizing art & entertainment turns out to be a pretty good playground for us to explore the matter. I give the film x stars out of y. (Or maybe I give it a perfect y!) Doesn't matter if the next guy rates it negative y. He gets a vote. I get a vote. You get a vote. That's three down and maybe billions to go depending on how well-publicized the film is. You need two eyes and/or two ears for depth perception. You need multiple angles on an object before you really know its shape. You don't need multiple opinions on one film. If any one opinion has value, though, they ALL have value! So, if Finnegan here tells us more, I hope we DO hear him out! 😎
@@ProudPapa26 Conceptually, I believe Inception earns its spot. This is if we're boiling down Nolan's epic to having only 1 primary reason for its place on this list. If we're not, then I urge you to consider the acting, the score, the filmography, the lighting, the pacing, the attention to detail, and the overall atmosphere. I can understand people calling Nolan pretentious, but calling his movies bad? I just don't get it.
I had to wince at the lack of any real nod to Heat - especially in the 'one last job' category (or indeed the 'aftermath' one). But besides that, an impeccable list as ever.
So pleased to hear Sneakers getting a shoutout. Truly underrated. I could watch it over and over again, and I have for the past 20 years! It’s the PERFECT late night TV movie.
since your last list I have become completely OBSESSED with your channel. Simply the best film rankings/reviews on RU-vid. Keep it up guys (and if you could upload at least 15 times a day that would be great, thanks)
I LOVE "Nine Queens" (I have it on DVD as it doesn't appear to be streaming ANYWHERE right now), but I think it's more of a "con" movie than a "heist" one.
As a dane, i feel obligated to mention our most famous moviefranchise: Olsen banden. Its about 3 crooks who performs big heists with everyday objects. Especially the heist in the Danish Royale Theater to the tune of "Elverhøj" from "Olsen Banden sees red"
We love „Olsen Banden” here in Poland. The films were shown regularly decades ago on Polish TV. This brings back memories… For Polish viewers: “Klawo jak ch0lera” :)
The 2017 Thai film Bad Genius would totally deserve an honorable mention as one of the best heist films. The film is about a group of students devising a cheating scheme for their high school exams and it’s as tense and exciting as any Mission: Impossible film.
Just literally - the best movie breakdown channel on RU-vid. Your guys in depth knowledge of movies is SO far beyond any other that there is honestly no completion. Keep them coming please
Great Top 10 list! Although, for number 3 I would've picked Spike Lee's "Inside Man". This one could've been considered for almost all categories, bur I feel it excels in the "Getaway/Aftermath" dept.
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The League of Gentlemen (1960), and The Ladykillers (1955) all deserve mention for heists that go well, but in the end are thwarted in ways you least expect for the “protagonist”.
Great list! …however, Rififi is the heist masterpiece. It was so groundbreaking and first of its kind that real-life bank robbers actually studied the film in order to learn how to rob banks and so on. I think there’s something to be said about the accuracy and legitimacy of a heist flick when it comes to the genre.
My favorite films you mentioned are Heat and Jackie Brown; Jackie also my favorite Tarrantino movie. The one you missed I thought sure would be on here is The Anderson Tapes. Connery at his non-Bond best.
This is such a great list. Love your picks. The Ocean's 11 remake is probably my favourite heist film, perfectly cast, fun, smart, stylish with a great villain. But your list has so many other amazing picks. I love Out of Sight(Clooney is so good as a charming rogue criminal), Heat is one of the best action films of all time and I really wish more people had seen the excellent Hell of High Water and the terrific Widows.
*_How to Steal A Million_* is an adorable 1966 heist movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole and I have no idea where it would fall on this list. It's more of a screwball romantic comedy with a heist at the center of it. The heist itself is SO simple and low-tech (literally it's hiding in a supply closet and using a boomerang toy to trip the noisy alarm enough times for people to get fed up with it and turn it off.) But the inter-personal plot is actually REALLY overly complicated in the best way. Audrey's character is an heiress who comes from a line of what are thought to be art collectors but are really art forgers, her eccentric father especially has a problem because new developments in authentication would bust him if he didn't stop. Her father makes the mistake of lending out a beloved ancient statue to a museum that was really a forgery done by Audrey's grandfather, and Audrey has to get it back before it's found to be fake and her father goes to jail. O'Toole's character later breaks into her house to examine one of the paintings on her wall and Audrey accidentally shoots him thinking he's a thief (typical meet-cute). She later commissions the thief to help her steal the sculpture before the Authenticator can get to it, and he reluctantly but cheekily agrees. They start to fall for each other in typical screwball way of O'Toole messing with her and her going "you are NOT taking this seriously" it's adorable. There's some other subplot stuff about a Fiencé who wants to own the sculpture similar to how he wasn't to own Audrey, but that's not super important. It's later revealed that O'Toole was the Art Authenticator all along and not actually a professional thief, but saved Audrey's bacon anyway and scares her dad straight. All because he fell for her. It's ridiculous and adorable and charming. And gives you Juuuuust enough heist hijinks to scratch that itch if you're looking for it. Also, Thank you for mentioning how underrated Sneakers is.
I just marathoned a bunch of Hepburn films and How to Steal A Million is definitely my favourite of the bunch. Peter O'Toole's got such great chemistry with Hepburn, and the film is so goddamn funny
Great List, I recently realized that I love heist movies a lot since most of the ones I've watched are either 9 or 10 on IMBD even the older or newer ones. So these movies are a welcome addition to my to-watch list.
So glad people recognise Inception as a heist movie, not a sci-fi fantasy. It's core structure is steeped in train-robbery and heist stories. Good call!
For sure. From Rene Russo's weird and unexplained green breakfast smoothie to the idiosyncratic improvised music that keeps coming back, this movie really has a special place in my heart. Feels like the poster child of a great movie era, with siblings such as Heat and The Game. Even the romance/attract-resist/thief-detective/let's-leave-our-old-lives-behind-together interplay was done without leaning on too many movie tropes (although the romantically disillusioned woman after misreading a platonic situation for a romantic done was a cliché, but it was made more relatable and understandable from her revealed background).
I love The Old Man and the Gun for the way it really isn't about the heist, the heist just stands in for something you're passionate about but really can't do anymore. An addiction that's just too fun to quit. Add Robert Redford who gives one fantastic final performance and David Lowery who knows exactly how to direct anything to give it just the right tone and you've got a great overlooked film.
I worked on that film. I played an armor car driver. Great experience, but a surreal one to say the least. Still, Mr. Redford was extremely cool and Mr. Glover was hilarious. One of the better and harder productions I’ve worked on.
Topkapi 1964. In both your original Top Heist Movies and this one Topkapi was never mentioned and it is one of the best, funniest and most stylish of all the heist movies. It's the European Ocean's 11. With a cast of Melina Mercouri · Elizabeth Lipp ; Peter Ustinov · Arthur Simon Simpson and Maximilian Schell, Topkapi sets the bar for style, glamour and comedy in a crime film with a heist scene just tense as any before or since.
Glad you mention Nine Queens. "El Robo Del Siglo" (2020) (The Heist of the Century) is also a great argentinian movie about a real life heist. Big recommendation, is quite a comedy and it's as close as the actual heist that happened here in Argentina 20 years ago. It has it all: planning, team coming together, digging tunnels, entering the bank with guns, taking hostages and getting away with all.
Gambit (the original Michael Caine, Shirley McClain versin) is one of my favorites. It uses the same structural idea as 'Unfaithfully Yours' but substtutes a theft instead of a murder. Beautiful. You also overlooked 'The Italian Job' (again the Michael Caine version) for the absolute perfect endng. 'Nobody move, I have an idea'...
Some I've rated well, most I don't remember: Goodfellas, White Heat, The original Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, Gun Crazy, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, High Sierra, Charley Varrick, Cash on Demand, Point Break, You Only Live Once, The League of Gentlemen, Bad Santa, The Lookout.
A few of my favourite Heist movies are Foolproof: A group of friends who get together to plan heists but never go through on them are forced to do so when a mob boss gets hands on their plans and uses them to blackmail them. Fanboys: A group of friends break into Skywalker Ranch to steal a print of The Phantom Menace to watch it ahead of it's release. Graduation Day: A group of friends plan to rob a bank owned by one of their fathers to pay for medical treatments for another friends mother, and plan to do it all during their graduation and get back in time to attend the ceremony. The Perfect Score: A group of students plan to steal the answer sheet to the SATs.
'Bad Genius' is a unique heist film about students extracting answers from exams and then selling them for money. Definitely worth checking out for something different.
this is more like "top 10 heist movies of all time". there is a difference! in this list you are focusing on the quality of the movie, its scenes, the meaning of the heist, and everything around it. not purely the quality of the heist itself. furthermore some of these movies feature more than one heist. that being said, I finally saw logan lucky the other day and can only recommend it. great film all around!
I deeply appreciate the mention of the Brothers Bloom at the beginning of this video. Not enough people talk about that movie. Sure, it’s not perfect, but it’s really fun.
I feel that the original Italian Job needed more than a blink-and-you-miss-it photo appearance. Brilliant! Also, I know it's a silly, silly movie, but there's a pretty good heist featuring many of the factors you mention (no choice, retired thief, one last job, etc.): _Hudson Hawk._
I really thought that the Italian job, either version, would have gotten at least an honorable mention. Sometimes these lists make me feel like my taste in movies aren't as up to par as I think lol.
Christopher Nolan ties with himself for #4, the "Temporal Pincer Maneuver" from Tenet is equally (If not more) bonkers than the "Dream Heist" in inception.
You do such impressive lists with classic and rarely seen films. Can we ever get a list of Cinefix top ten Guilty Pleasure films? Very interested to see what that would look like.
I feel like The Haiden Heist (2009) deserves a mention. Whilst it's a simple movie overall, there's a charm to having 3 elderly men planning a heist, driven by love for art the pieces they don't want to say goodbye to. Morgan Freeman, William H Macy and Christopher Walken, are a very entertaining trio to watch fumble around.
