Thick as Thieves (1999) - It. Just. Doesn't. End.

I was looking for good heist movies and this popped up. I remember 1999 pretty darn well and I had never heard of it. True, there were a lot of movies like this being churned out in Hollywood through the nineties, but with a cast that shows Alec Baldwin, Rebeccas De Mornay, and Andre Braugher, I thought I would have recalled walking past it at a Blockbuster Video at some point. 

The story is about a thief who is double-crossed and enacts revenge. Pretty straightforward stuff here. The acting is fine, and the dialogue is fun. It's got a hip vibe, a mix of Get Shorty and Pulp Fiction. It had some great comedy.

However, there is so much filler going on that you think every scene is building to something elsee, but nope it's just another twenty minutes of unnecessary acting. Then another twenty minutes. To say there are pacing issues is an understatement. To say this needed serious editing help is putting it lightly. 

It was like the director had characters and just threw scenes around them. When the ending does come you've been armchair quarterbacking how you would have done everything different and wrapped this thing up already.

A random stranger's opinion - Starts out strong, drags on, and ends with a whimper. It's passible, but not even Baldwin fans will regret skipping this one.

Grade: C-