Article: Heist? I've got one word for RTE's shock docs...

Heist? I've got one word for RTE's shock docs...

RTE1's latest gimmick is to give its documentaries one-word movie titles. Last week there was Heat, in which we were invited to compare chefs Kevin Thornton and Kevin Dundon to Al Pacino and Robert de Niro, even though fussing about with vegetable tartlets and raspberry mousses isn't quite as machismo as discharging Magnum 357s and AK-47s in crowded city streets.

This week there's the crime series Heist, though any resemblance to the David Mamet film is somewhat spoiled by casting Paul Reynolds instead of Gene Hackman in the lead role and by having David Davin Power instead of Danny DeVito as backup.

Heist is yet ...

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