124 minute running time so a half hour too long … Michael Mann’s debut movie … he re-made a variation of this as “Heat” 15 years later. The trouble with Michael Mann is that he lingers too much on shots and scenes, which make his movies way too long … he needs an aggressive editor. There were MANY great scenes in “Heat,” but the movie as a whole suffered from being too long and having the unnecessary romance stories added in there. Awful early 1980s soundtrack in “Thief” by “Tangerine Dream,” more like a nightmare. Remember the music in The Terminator? Like that but just endless.

James Cann and his Bronx accent plays a Chicagoan and a thief… Tuesday Weld plays the girl … fat Jim Belushi is in it too… it wasn’t very good, I mean I like the idea that crime doesn’t pay nor does getting mixed up with the mob, but this was unnecessarily violent and just sort of lousy, though John Farr liked it, but I say give it a miss.

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