Rian Miller’s review published on Letterboxd:
A criminal mastermind gets out of prison and plans a caper. Some unsavory individuals get involved with the caper and plan to backstab one another. The caper goes off...not quite "without a hitch" and suddenly the cops are after the criminal mastermind and his crew. Some backstabbings take place, a few people die, and some arrests are made. In the end, we all learn that crime (and the caper) doesn't pay.
The Asphalt Jungle is a really solid caper film.
I just love that the characters repeatedly use the term "caper" instead of "heist" or "job".
I also love that they refer to their guns as "heaters" and hired muscle as "hooligans".