“Crime Story” (** out of four) was an unfocused crime melodrama about a dying old man (Richard Dreyfuss) who discovers he has terminal cancer and attempts to seek retribution on the thieves who have destroyed his life while simultaneously trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Mira Sorvino) who has become a cop. Heavy-handed mixture of the slick and the sentimental never fully connects and catches fire. Dreyfuss is miscast as a hard-boiled gangster bent on revenge; Sorvino is good as usual but has played similar role too many times by now.