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Ok wow you guys weren't kidding on this being THE heist movie! That was SO intense. The acting and story development was amazing. This was another one of those movies where I did not know who to cheer for, which is hard for me haha! But really everything was so well done in this one. I hope you guys enjoy the reaction! 

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Zachary K.

The movie that inspired the North Hollywood Shootout

Clay F

Wow. That is a good movie.

Eddie Perkins

They are two great actors and Michael Mann has done some great movies like Manhunter (1989) and Collateral (2004), and talking about Natalie Portman, you should watch her in Leon: The Professional (1994)

Aaron Mann

Another great early Natalie Portman film (and where she also has a more prominent role) is Leon: The Professional. Pretty straightforward "good guys vs bad guys" action flick that I think you would really enjoy.

Tara

Cassie : “I can’t take this, play some music or something!” And voila suspense music... That is the power of Cassie 😉 I waited until after the movie to tell you that Edie was from Private Practice, but you figured it out . Cassie I wasn’t sure if you saw that Chris’ wife gave him a signal when he got out of the car with his short hair, that’s why he drove away. Val is amazing in Tombstone! hint... hint... 🍿

Tara

Cassie, since you like heist/Con movies like the Oceans trilogy, you’ll probably really like the TV show Leverage. It’s about a team of thieves and each one has their own specialty. They use their skills for good and plan cons/heists every episode to help people who have been taken advantage of.

Jeff Richman

With so much going on, it took me a few watches to realize the connection between the bank robbery tip and Van Zant's security guy. You got it on the first try. There's apparently a deleted scene that connects the dots a little more, but it doesn't matter. Nice spot! I'm glad the ending worked for you! I'm not sure the movie even technically qualifies as entertainment, it's a very difficult watch and never tells you what to think or feel. It's not "fun". It IS a work of art, and one you can reflect on endlessly and keep learning from. A masterpiece. The ending is one of the greatest scenes in cinema... if the viewer can grasp it. You clearly did. A lot of people call this a heist movie but I think that's very wrong. If I had to put it in a basket, I'd put it in with a little known early 90's movie called Searching For Bobby Fischer. Which on the surface is kind of like a Karate Kid story about chess, but Roger Ebert's review of it is maybe his best, and he captures that it's a movie about our responsibilities to our gifts. Whether they should define us, and be allowed to consume us. Very much like how their gifts consume Neil and Vincent and everyone around them, and how ultimately, as a result, the only people they can completely relate to are each other. And that's just one of dozens of possible takeaways. An absolute masterpiece. I don't totally recommend reacting to Searching For Bobby Fischer because it's a rather delicate movie with low ambitions, but it truly is a lovely one. Brilliant and sensitive, like its young main character. I DO recommend Roger Ebert's review of it. He had a way of helping you understand just how good a movie truly was. But if you ever get convinced to react to Karate Kid (which itself is a surprisingly good movie despite how it sounds), keep Searching in mind as well.

Michael Threapleton

It's like we watched a different movie (see my comment upstream). The relationship between master detective and mastermind of crime is so derivative of Holmes and Moriarty. Searching for Bobby Fischer is great and features the brilliant Ben Kingsley who is in the superb heist movie Sexy Beast. The film introduced me to Laurence Fishburne who was outstanding. What a great actor he is and I thought at the time that he would go on to have Denzel type fame and success. Check out his star turn in Othello (1995) in which he was the first African American to play the lead role in a major film adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

Jeff Richman

I would never describe Sherlock and Moriarty as men who would otherwise be friends.

Michael Threapleton

I must avoid spoilers, but if you ever get a chance to see the stage play The Secret of Sherlock Holmes there is a tectonic revelation. I was fortunate enough to see it in the West End with the inimitable Jeremy Brett as Holmes.

Jason Chirevas

SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER can’t be recommended often or highly enough. A beautiful, moving story about lots of things but maybe most of all about fathers and sons — and father/son relationships of several kinds — and what they mean, and do to, both participants.

Robert Snyder

Only made it 20 mins and couldn’t take the figit clicker.

Nismo

In the updated no-clicks edit it made it seem like they edited out her saying the F-bomb during the final stand-off. I got a good chuckle out of that 😅

Philip Alan

I just watched it again. She says, "OH FRICK!" btw. :) A Cassie STAPLE!

Nismo

Yup, I knew she said frick from the first edit, but the way it was edited in the 2nd version made it seem like she said something worse 😄

Jason Chirevas

One of my favorites ever is, “Oh…FLIP,” when the bathroom door opens in PSYCHO.

Ike

Cassie, let me take shot at possibly describing what you felt at the end. (You said you didn’t know). You know that you saw great performances by great actors. You realized right away that it was serious subject matter. Yet, it lacked the over-the-top dramatic action pieces indicative of Hollywood heist or detective films. This was the dark life of major crimes and the life of the people that chase them. So, I think you felt what I did (I thought about this for a long time) - Throughout the film, there is no place to hang your hat! There are no characters that you would want to hang out with. There is nowhere in this film to call “home.” And it was intentional. Director Michael Mann did not want Detective Vincent Hanna’s life to be envious or stable or welcoming. Everyone is flawed. And though the story has a resolution - you (the audience) have no where else to go when it ends. That’s the empty feeling you felt (that’s pretty hard to achieve as a filmmaker).

Doc Southy

Two other great cops-n-robbers movies also come to mind after seeing how you reacted to this; The Town (Ben Aflaak), and Public Enemies (Depp, Bale, etc.). Public Enemies was also directed by Michael Mann, who directed this, as well as so many other great films. I know you would respect them both!

London Davis

Newby here, is it a normal thing for Cassie to use a fidget clicker during a reaction? We were disappointed and had to turn off the reaction because it got frustrating. 

Cassie Tremblay

not normal :( i’m so sorry, made the mistake in 2 movies but once i realized you could here it in the reaction, never again! sorry

Brian Wegner

Your comments about young Natalie Portman at the beginning immediately brought to mind another movie that I absolutely love, and I believe would be an excellent reaction movie for you....Léon: The Professional. Natalie Portman's first major movie, and an exceptional performance for a young actor. I can't recommend it enough.

Lana Gorgeous

The serial killer guy was resp. for so much death from the beginning of the movie to ratting out the guys who were going to have the successful bank score, and if he were not part of the crew from the beginning till the end it would have been just a movie with successful bank robbers who lived happily ever after. Oh yes you must watch Natalie Portman's first movie The Professional.