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Verdict: Slow on the uptake, great on the acting.

Details: Starring Christopher Walken. Rated R. 1 hour, 29 minutes.

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Review: You've heard this story before: An ex-con trying to go straight gets sucked back into one last crime. It's been done three times already this year, in "Gone in 60 seconds," "Where the Money Is" and "Reindeer Games."

This time, Christopher Walken plays a former safecracker and a lousy auto mechanic who is forced into one last heist. It's familiar territory, but first-time writer-director Myles Connell's pacing is so slow, it takes forever to get there.

He gets the details right, though, in the blue-collar Queens setting. And while the movie is boring at times, Walken's performance never is. Donal Logue steals every scene he's in as a bumbling would-be thief who's in on the crime.

— Christy Lemire, Associated Press

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