Complex heist-octane thrills

OVER 30 years ago, Michael Mann’s Heat stunned the world with its grey morality and glaring similarities between Al Pacino’s cop and Robert De Niro’s criminal.

- GEORGE SIMPSON

Now writer-director Bart Layton has made a spiritual successor crime thriller for the 21st century and it’s one of the year’s best movies so far.

Boasting an impressive cast of Marvel stars, Chris Hemsworth plays jewel thief Mike Davis, who works his way through Los Angeles jobs while being hunted by Mark Ruffalo’s detective Lou Lubesnick.

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Meanwhile, Halle Berry’s insurance broker Sharon Colvin gets entangled with the crook’s next score as Barry Keoghan’s biker criminal Ormon adds more chaos.