The Anderson Tapes

This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to rob ...more

Caper films like The Anderson Tapes live or die by their plots; it's really great when there is also fully developed (or interesting or colorful) characters or snappy dialogue or an underlying allegory, but without careful attention to plot, a caper flick just never gets out of the gate. Anderson Tapes is fortunate to have a very nifty plot gimmick as its basis and fortunate that the structure that supports that gimmick is also sound. It's somewhat less fortunate in the dialogue department. What ...more