I don’t know if this is considered a proper heist movie — it’s kind of espionage-y/conspiracy-y rather than being a robbery — but it really really feels like one. You’ve got the gang full of people with unique skills (including one guy whose skill is “being blind” so that he gets the superpowers that go along with that), you’ve got the elaborate plans, and you’ve got the whole tense sequence while they execute the plan and things seem to be going wrong.

I feel like this is kind of a cult classic, and I guess I can see why — it’s fun enough, and the cast is incredible (Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Mary McDonnell, and Ben Kingsley). But… idk, it was fine? The dialogue is pedestrian, the plot is nonsense (with technobabble that was probably less obviously ridiculous before the internet made encryption into a daily-use thing), and it just generally lacks the verve and charisma of something like Ocean’s 11. (And the music is really weird, a James Horner score that sounds like it was written for a sitcom.)

I don’t know how so much talent went into making a movie this mid.