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Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who has other plans for him. |
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| Ratings: | IMDB: 7.4/10 | |
| Released: | March 27, 1981 | |
| Runtime: | 123 min | |
| Genres: | Action Drama Thriller Crime | |
| Countries: | United States | |
| Companies: | Mann/Caan Productions Mann/Caan Productions United Artists | |
| Cast: | James Caan Willie Nelson Jim Belushi Tuesday Weld | |
| Crew: | Michael Mann Frank Hohimer | |
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classic
good movie. Why have i never heard of it before
Because Michael Mann is underrated.
A masterpiece
A masterpiece
Legendary. 5/5✨
I don’t know about masterpiece. It was very good. Started a bit slow but then got up to speed. Topkapi was the heist flick that started it all and was/is what I consider a classic and a must see for those into the genre; old now, but still a great watch. Another really good heist flick is The Italian Job. (Edit: the 2003 one. There’s also an earlier one with Michael Caine, that must be good (he’s great) but I haven’t seen that one yet.)
It’s a masterpiece because it was ahead of its time in terms of filmmaking, music, realism, dialogue… big name crime movies at that time were corny in comparison.
In the canon of Heist films up until this point, this one by Michael Mann stands alone and is a masterpiece not only as a crime story but also in firearms realism. Fast forward to 1995 and you get the the all time heavyweight champion of heist films, Heat, which is not only a masterpiece of crime fiction but also again, in firearms realism and urban combat. The Shootout at the bank job is pure perfection. Michael Mann as a Director stands alone in terms of firearm realism in film, no contest.
I guess it’s a case of “each to his own” with regard to what makes a classic. You obviously give much higher priority to firearms realism. I appreciate that quality, in all action films. But for heist films in particular I give more priority to the creativity of the heist. That’s why Topkapi, which predates Thief and Heat and The Italian Job, is the seminal film of the heist genre, IMHO.