I love a good heist movie. The Italian Job, Inside Man, heck, I even liked Tower Heist. Sadly this is not one of them. The premise is genius. The casting is perfect and the acting is spot-on. If only someone had given them an intelligent script, they might have had something here.
Our story begins when a young man, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), checks into a 21stfloor suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. He takes in the view of Manhattan, enjoys a sumptuous breakfast, opens the window, steps out on the ledge and waits.
It doesn’t take long before half of Manhattan and every news station in town is following the jumper. Turns out Nick is a disgraced New York City police officer convicted of stealing a 44-carat diamond from a Trump-esque real estate mogul Richard Englander (Ed Harris). It doesn’t take the police negotiator, Lydia (Elizabeth Banks), long to realize that Nick may not be out on that ledge to jump, but rather as a distraction. A distraction he is. As all eyes are on suicide watch, Nick’s brother (Jamie Bell) and his girlfriend are attempting to steal the missing diamond from the corrupt Englander and prove Nick’s innocence.
Great premise, right? That’s when the problems start. The movie is so technologically backward, one has to wonder if the script was written in the ’90s. Moreover, heist movies live or die by the robbers’ Plan B. With all the options out there, this Plan B was more like a Plan C-minus. It’s well-acted, and the ledge concept is gripping, but in the end, the film just runs out of gas.
It's a 6.
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