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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This is an excellent movie. Alec Baldwin puts in one of his best efforts, but he's upstaged by Michael Jai White who just runs away with it in the colorful role of Pointy Williams. Pointy is one of the most refreshing film characters I've stumbled across in quite a while. He's a gangster who is trying to improve himself socially and take on upper class and intellectual airs. He's surrounded of course by rough and tumble urban ghetto thugs and the realities of running a brutal criminal enterprise, so Pointy is constantly frustrated at this by every turn. The film is not a comedy, it's crime drama, but a infectiously quirky one with lots of laughs, especially when Pointy comes around. The film, and especially Pointy, are extremely quotable. This is a great film in every way. I'm surprised it does not have a bigger following.

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first (Alec Baldwin), a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides.This is quite a good film, and despite my growing up in the 90s, I never heard of it until today (August 2013). How did that happen? I am not saying it is the lost "Citizen Kane" or anything on that level, but it is a good criminal versus criminal sort of film, and we can never have too many of those.The cast is also quite good, with Baldwin, Andre Baugher, Janeane Garofalo... people really ought to check it out.

Alec Baldwin gives an edgy performance, not unlike his similar character in "Miami Blues", as a professional thief who sometimes works for the Chicago mob. When a deal in Detroit goes bad and he is set up by the local hoods, Baldwin's escalating war of revenge pushes the mob to take appropriate action. Good character development, smart dialog, and an excellent supporting cast, lift "Thick as Thieves" well above the usual crime drama. There are unexpected moments of dark humor, intermingled with the not too subtle violence. This smart, action-packed film is far more entertaining than some of Tatantino's supposed "classics". Seek it out. - MERK

Alec Baldwin, after more than a decade-and-a-half of not becoming the major star we all thought he would be back in the eighties, finally proves that he has star power to burn. Unfortunately, he shows it in a otherwise unspectacular movie that very few people will ever see unless they are late night cable TV junkies or Video store residents. Don't get me wrong--"Thick as Thieves" is a pretty good crime movie, especially compared to the usual no-story, all-special effects, written-by-the-marketing-department, incomprehensible garbage being cranked out by the studios today. It does have a story, a plot, and characters. In fact, if the filmmakers had a bit more skill, you might mistake "Thieves" for a Quentin Tarantino adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel. Writer-director Scott Sanders doesn't quite have the ear for dialog or the visual clarity of Tarantino, however (and, as maligned by hipster film nuts as Quentin has become, all you have to do is rent "Jackie Brown" to know that the man does know how to develop characters and tell a damn story--even if he is a wanton thief of style). Not having read the original novel "Thieves" is based on, I can't really comment on whether author Patrick Quinn is an up-and-coming Leonard. But even if he really is as good as the master, or only aspires to that high level, I have the feeling that there was much lost in the transfer from word to image. First-timer Sanders has good taste in material, to be sure. And his storytelling and visual styles are clean--but they are also dully TV-like at times. This could be a result of the modest budget (The mid-range budget might also explain the huge cast who rarely appear together in groups numbering more than three--the trick is you get them each to do a day or two's work here and there instead of paying a regular sized cast to perform for an entire film).And, as I mentioned before, Alec Baldwin commands the screen with major star power, in a low-key, subtle performance, reminicent of another little-seen character crime flick starring "the talented Baldwin" from a long time ago, "Miami Blues." One major star turn + a lot of sturdy work from a host of character actors can sometimes = a good movie. In this case, unfortunately, it only = an OK one.Still, although not up there with the best crime movies, "Thick as Thieves" is superlative when compare to other movies that never have a life outside of Cable TV or the local video store.