Thieves fall out. Same old same old. This specimen, though, is very dark. Full of merciless men, plus a well-achieved and over-riding feeling of heat, even in the hours of darkness within which most of the action takes place. Harvey Keitel plays a retired criminal, living in wealthy anonymity, but called out of retirement to help his younger brother (Timothy Hutton) in one last heist. Jorge (Wade Dominguez) and cocky young wheelman Skip (Stephen Dorff) make up the gang, who bring off a million-dollar jewel robbery. Dorff, already resolved to take the lot, shoots Dominguez and Hutton, but a wounded Keitel escapes. With the help of Dominguez's widow (Famke Janssen), he tracks Dorff down. Straightforward, doomy, bloody, hardnut stuff this, in which no one answers questions straight away: pregnant pauses, sleaze and violence rule. Keitel is well at home in these surroundings and doesn't have to smile - though he's entitled to when Dorff shoots his own remaining henchman to go clear with the booty.

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