Heist

A blackjack dealer on a riverboat casino (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) asks his boss (Robert De Niro) for a six-figure loan to pay for his daughter's surgery. Being refused, he joins a co-worker (Dave Bautista) in a plan to rob the casino—but the job goes sour and they hijack a bus to make their escape. Echoes of better movies abound in Stephen Cyrus Sepher and Max Adams' screenplay, mixed with an illogic entirely their own. Morgan has a certain rugged appeal, and Scott Mann directs with gung-ho urgency, but the improbable turns in the plot—culminating in a final gimme-a-break twisteroo—defeat them. De Niro isn't the only talent wasted here: Morris Chestnut, D.B. Sweeney and Gina Carano all struggle with the material; even Kate Bosworth flits through for an earnest scene as De Niro's estranged daughter. J.L.