Heist movies are great. As familiar and comfortable as an old armchair, you can watch them secure in the knowledge that some old thief is going to do "one last job", that they'll spend ages casing the joint and that the final 40 minutes will be a wordless unfolding of some spectacularly elaborate plan. In all these respects, director Frank Oz delivers, taking a welcome break from fluffy comedies to paint a midnight world of sewers, break-ins and jazz clubs. The Score's the sort of by-the-numbers crime caper that's been out of fashion ever since Reservoir Dogs shook things up by not even showing the heist, and it proves that there's plenty of life yet in the old formula.
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