Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHeist films, from “Rififi” to “Ocean’s Eleven” to “Widows,” are all about the planning. They’re missions impossible, and the fun of almost every heist movie is: Can it make the intricacy of a robbery thrilling yet plausible?
But in “Cut Throat City,” the third feature directed by the RZA, the posse of desperate amateur thugs who rip off a New Orleans casino scarcely have a plan, and does that ever show.
It’s part of the film’s volatile but ramshackle design.At first, they sit “innocently” at the slot machines, wearing hoodies.
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