Very disappointing...

Absolutely Fantastic

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

"The Code" or "Thick as Thieves" as it is called is a 2009 film starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, and Robert Forrester.The story concerns a slippery thief, Keith Ripley (Freeman), who teams up with a thief from Miami, Gabriel (Banderas) to steal antique Faberge eggs that are kept in a vault surrounded by huge security trappings at a jewelry store named Romanov's.Ripley needs to do the theft as a debt payment for his late brother, who was mixed up with a Russian mobster. He wants the eggs, and he's determined to get them. They are being watched by Lieutenant Weber, who has been trying to get Ripley for years.Freeman and Banderas didn't have much chemistry, and Freeman, of course, is capable of roles having much more depth. So both kind of glided along, Banderas using his charm, and Freeman his geniality.Derivative story with a couple of twists. A decent rental.

Thick as Thieves is a typical heist movie, just about what I expected. But one starring (especially) Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas I just had to see. Masterthief Ripley needs to recruit help, Martin, to pull of the heist of a lifetime. Ripley has indebted himself to a Russian gangster and needs to steal to mythical Fabergé-eggs from Romanovs, a jeweler with a vault like a fort. And of course there are a police detective on their heels.The story is set up with hidden secrets and twists and turns. Some I caught and some I didn't. Just about the right mix to make it entertaining, but nothing special. It is a thriller, but there is a somewhat humorous tone. Just like it should be in a big heist movie. What it lacks is the feeling of suspense and surprise. It's hard to balance it just right and Thick as Thieves doesn't quite manage it. But with Freeman in the lead it is I said, entertaining. Especially for heist movie fans.6/10

There's been an increase of "light crime" movies lately. The Ocean trilogy, Duplicity and so on. These films usually mix a dose of humor and flirtation along with some kind of heist and some thrills. Thick as Thieves is the latest, and probably the worse in that sub genre of cinema because it tries to follow the formula without fully understanding it. It all starts with an uninspired screenplay from Ted Humphrey, who throws at us cardboard characters that we have seen a thousand times. The clever and mysterious old thief. His new recruit who doesn't trust him, a sexy and detached love interest and of course, the old cop who's been looking to lock up the master thief for a while but never gets to it. Yawn. Writer Humphrey and director Leder attempt to inject a light-hearted tone which clashes with the actual story almost scene after scene. Whenever a character is threatened, we never believe they are in any actual danger because of the light tone, so every attempt to thrill us falls flat. Worse, the humor and light-hearted material is never funny or clever. So it fails both to make us laugh or to create tension. Another aspect of the formula is usually the "voyeuristic" aspects of those flicks. Good looking people, exotic locations, eye candy of all kind (flesh, tech, etc...) and again, the movie attempts to push these different buttons in a cheap way. It never actually works. As all movies in this genre, a lot relies also on misdirection of the audience but none of the so-called twists here will really surprise and if some do, you will not be invested enough to care and go "wow". What you're left with is a tired plot where witty, (sometimes) good- looking characters go around pretending to be clever and being in danger that you never buy. A sort of Dysney heist flick for grown up. It pains me to see two fantastic actors such as Morgan Freeman and Radha Mitchell wasted in such trash.

Hollywood is a vast reservoir of screen talent and when producers, directors and movie stars combine to make a movie, audiences across the United States, indeed across the cinematic world, anxiously await to pay for the right combination of a good movie. Often, their result is a mega production, a Classic, or at the very least a profitable enterprise. However as in this case, the movie is a abysmal disappointment. One asks, with the superior talents Morgan Freeman, the handsome features and sex appeal of Antonio Banderas how could you possibly lose? Annalysis of this movie called " Code " or " Thick as Thevies " proves the old add age of; 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.' Briefly this is an often repeated story. You take an aging professional thief, partner him with a young talented version of himself, then challenge them against the most sophisticated impervious thief-proof bank vault imaginable and you have the makings of a classic. Right? Unfortunately not. Although both men are superstars, the movie is not without flaws. The script is so convoluted it loses coherence, among the principals and audience. Again, the romantic character interaction and drama is handicapped by unresolved Stop and Go scenes. Then again, trying to touch base with who's on first, audiences are purposely tripped by not allowing some clue as to which segment of the film establishes the good guys from the bad. Too much sympathy is labored on the dark character only to discover he's the the hero. In conclusion, what should have been a high flying feature, became instead a single wing albatross. ***