Sigh. What is it with Mamet these days? Like Spartan that came out this year, Heist starts out great and then peters out into the rediculous toward the end. Ann and I were literally shouting “enough!” at all the twists and reversals. Rickey Jay is great, though, and anything with Gene Hackman being a superman is definitely watchable (another reason Runaway Jury didn’t totally suck.) I enjoyed the baffling one-liners, but Ann found them awful. Among them — “My motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him,” “I don’t want you as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. I want you as quiet as an ant not even thinking about pissing on cotton,” “You know why the chicken crossed the road? Because the road crossed the chicken,” and “She could talk her way out of a sunburn.”