| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Heist" is good TV -- not great yet, but good -- from the cast to the suspenseful pacing and a cool musical score. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Fun to watch, cleverly written and filled with engaging characters. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Highly entertaining. |
| 70 |
Newsday Verne Gay
Far and away the best new pilot on NBC this season. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The story lines and characters are layered and more intricate than in most detective series. |
| 63 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
A comedy-laced caper requires a light, sure touch. Heist tends to plod. |
| 63 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
As silly concoctions go, it's rather tasty. |
| 60 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's worth keeping an eye on the show, in case it finds somewhere to go that's both intricate and unusual. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's an entertaining enough diversion if you're not expecting much. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
A caper that's as clever and grandiose as any TV series has presented in a long time. And fun. |
| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
An hour of snide cleverness--especially one in which you can predict all the plot twists--gets tired fast. [24 Mar 2006, p.59] |
| 50 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
It may be that in the long run, "Heist" proves to be something you can admire simply for its pure entertainment value. But right now, it's a show that looks good on the surface but is empty at the core. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
In between the sardonic wisecracks and tangled storytelling, it's easy to lose interest. |
| 50 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Although we are meant to regard its dishonest protagonists as the epitome of contemporary cool, they come off as self-satisfied and pretentious. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The flippant tone grows tiresome and clashes with harrowing bursts of violence. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
[The pilot] works a little too hard at establishing a fun-loving, "Swingers""Swingers"-type tone, though at least that represents something of an alternative to "CSI: NY" and ABC's new procedural "The Evidence." |
| 30 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Heist is a tiresome mess. |
| 30 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
All the clever, sexy banter in this thing cannot cover up its utter lack of believability, from the casting to the excessively hip repartee. |
| 30 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Employing the kind of overly clever, self-consciously "witty" dialogue that unfailingly announces a lack of real ideas on the part of the writers, "Heist" is by far the least compelling of these new crime-life series. |
| 30 |
Slate Troy Patterson
The pilot episode of this caper series is cheaply derivative, generally condescending, and largely hollow. It is also swank and busy enough to create the occasional illusion that it is entertaining. |
| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The writing in "Heist" is self-consciously forced, as if the writers are breaking their backs to be quick-witted and clever. It's painful to hear. |
| 10 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
"Heist" seems derivative of an imitation of a copy of a clone -- so plastic-coated and phony that it's hard to tell what it's ripping off. |
