"Why do we love crime movies so much? Well, let's see: we have gangsters, car chases, overcomplicated heists, infiltrated moles, choreographic and violent shoot-outs, and sometimes spectacular action set pieces. Plus, of course, there's the sheer fun of empathizing with the bad guys… or the good guys who will try to take 'em down.
One can prefer Tarantino's over-the-top ear for dialogue or Sidney Lumet's intelligent and calculated conversations, a more realistic attitude and tone or a funnier twist to the archetypal elements in the genre, but in the end, almost everyone enjoys a good crime movie… especially the ones in which something (or everything!) suddenly goes terribly wrong, leaving characters to handle the unexpected consequences of the ill-fated events."
