The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

  This is probably the only instance where the remake is actually better than the original.  Or at least it's the only one coming to mind right now.

Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is bored and rich.  Bored enough to turn to art theft and rich enough to not be considered a suspect, until insurance investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) comes to town.  A very valuable Monet has been stolen and Detective Micheal McCann (Denis Leary) is out of his blue-collar depths.  Banning immediately seizes on Crown as the mastermind and plots to bring him down.

There were some significant changes to the original story and they are all for the better here.  John McTiernan is very capable with flashy action films and the remake has much better pacing.  It's downright snappy without feeling rushed.  There's a lot more chemistry between the leads as well.  I deleted the original off my server but this version I think I'll keep.  It's not the greatest heist movie I've ever seen but it's fun enough.