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88"Heist" is good TV -- not great yet, but good -- from the cast to the suspenseful pacing and a cool musical score.
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80Fun to watch, cleverly written and filled with engaging characters.
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70Highly entertaining.
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70The story lines and characters are layered and more intricate than in most detective series.
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70Far and away the best new pilot on NBC this season.
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63As silly concoctions go, it's rather tasty.
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63A comedy-laced caper requires a light, sure touch. Heist tends to plod.
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60A caper that's as clever and grandiose as any TV series has presented in a long time. And fun.
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60It's worth keeping an eye on the show, in case it finds somewhere to go that's both intricate and unusual.
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60It's an entertaining enough diversion if you're not expecting much.
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An hour of snide cleverness--especially one in which you can predict all the plot twists--gets tired fast. [24 Mar 2006, p.59]
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50Although we are meant to regard its dishonest protagonists as the epitome of contemporary cool, they come off as self-satisfied and pretentious.
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50In between the sardonic wisecracks and tangled storytelling, it's easy to lose interest.
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50It 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.
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40The flippant tone grows tiresome and clashes with harrowing bursts of violence.
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40[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."
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30Employing 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.
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30All the clever, sexy banter in this thing cannot cover up its utter lack of believability, from the casting to the excessively hip repartee.
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30The 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.
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30Heist is a tiresome mess.
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25The 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.
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10"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.
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philh10I tuned in every single week!! The acting was on point and it was truely unquie show withall the good stuff thats good tv man!!!!! bring it back!!!!
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katies9what happened?? the reviews were ok- the show was good- the people were buzzing about it....what happened to it?
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