Unfortunately the word that came to mind when thinking about describing this movie was "generic". We don't get a lot of info about these characters, it's all pretty one dimensional. A group a guys work at Eagle Security driving armoured trucks (the money kind, actually is there any other kind?). Matt Dillon randomly tells the new guy that they are going to steal the money in their truck tomorrow and make it look like they were attacked and it was stolen (short notice much?!). Well, the new guy is hurting for cash, so he agrees "as long as no one gets hurt". Oh please, like that ever happens to be true. It must also be mentioned that Matt Dillon and the new guy's dad were really close friends, perhaps I even heard that Matt was the new guy's godfather? But this doesn't stop Matt Dillon from trying to kill the guy when he has a moral conflict and wants out. So going back to what I said about this being one-dimensional. Aside from the new guy (I looked up his name, it's Ty in the movie, no one special in real life, I just thought you would appreciate having a name) who we know wants the money so he doesn't lose his house to the bank or his brother to child services, we have no idea why the other guys want this money, I assumed greed, because no other reason is given. This becomes a problem because when things get ugly and people start getting hurt (uh oh) these guys do bad things for the money, and we have no idea what their motivation is. We also don't really know what their plan is, how long they have been planning, or how all the other guys got involved. There is definitely various levels of commitment to this plan, but whose idea was it and how did they approach the other guys about it? It was just a really simple movie, not necessarily bad, but simple.
If you want to watch a really great heist movie, try The Score or Inside Man.
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