The phrase "honour amongst thieves" pretty much serves as
the underlying mood behind most if not all heist films. Most of their main
drive comes portraying thievery as a competitive sport. And with the placement
in the realms of sport comes the preceding fixation on technical skills and
strategy, with all the intensive choreography and smooth-as-butter timing that
goes with it. There’s also an underlying aspect of revenge, or at the very
least retribution, attached to a lot of them, with the heist being the means to
get even with someone who doesn’t play fair.
