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i must have seen a different film!!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I was planning to give this film a 7 until the final scene, when the bubblegum-disco credits music kicked in. Deduct 1 star for the bad taste left in my mouth."Thick as Thieves" (alternatively titled "The Code") is your standard high-tech heist film, with serious tips of the hat to "Mission Impossible" and "Ocean's 11." A number of nice plot twists along the way, some of which you'll probably see coming and some not. The obligatory 40 seconds of moderately graphic sex. (Why did I get the odd notion that the producers were trying to bump this up to an R rating but couldn't quite manage it?) And, my main reason for the high rating, exceptional performances from Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas.Freeman is his usual stolid self and always worth seeing, though we've all seen his persona before. But Banderas is a particular joy to watch. At least one IMDb reviewer commented that he's getting a bit old to play the wisecracking buddy-movie younger guy, but I didn't view his character that way at all. I saw a cool-headed, competent crook, still young enough to have all his abilities but aware that the tide is ebbing quickly. (Banderas was 49 when this film was released, though his character can pass for considerably less.) And he doesn't take himself seriously; watch his facial expressions, some of which are hilarious, some self-mocking, and all expressive and beautifully in character.In fact, the entire film doesn't take itself seriously; I think that's why I had such fun watching what is, at bottom, a modest, not particularly original story. The ridiculously high-tech alarm systems and burglary gadgets, the juggling of identities and motives, the light, understated script (including some wonderful scenes featuring fully expendable bad guys): The mood of the whole is simply fun. Crack a beer and enjoy it.

This feels like a made-for-TV movie that somehow got some big actors attached to it.The directing is lacklustre, there is no style here at all, it is like the sweepings of the cutting floor of every other heist film.The pace is OK, things are continuously happening, but there is never a feeling of impetus, even as we get towards the end.Freeman and Banderas are sleep-walking through the film, they are acceptable in their roles but certainly not interesting and Mitchell seems to be playing a parody of every honest, determined cop.The dialogue is terrible, all clichés and no imagination. The plot is pretty standard, all the clichés with nothing new added. The opening sequence is especially ridiculous and unbelievable.The twists at the end are OK, there are a few and I didn't expect all of them.It's not a terrible movie it's just completely forgettable, a sort paint-by-numbers heist film. Watchable if you have absolutely nothing else to watch.

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.

This heist movie, also known as THE CODE, is pretty much a let down. It seems to run over itself before any interest cumulates. Even the trailers don't garner many reasons to watch unless you are a Morgan Freeman or Antonio Banderas fan. Even they can't save this one. Freeman plays an aging art thief thinking about something big enough to retire on; but he owes the Russian underworld; and they want him to steal a pair of Faberge eggs. Freeman ends up joining a younger accomplice(Banderas)on this heist. The two see the 'codes of thievery' a bit differently; but its them against the Russian underworld. The plot is thin and the dialog is about understandable as the many plot twists that prove to be not needed. Others in the cast: Radha Mitchell, Robert Forster, Marcel Lures and Antony Byrne.