Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Warner Home Video - Warner Home Video
Release date: 2005-02-22
DVD
Director:Michael Mann
Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore
Action, Adult Situations, Adventure, Atmospheric, Bank Robbery, Bleak, Color, Crime, Crime Thriller, Criminal's Revenge, Drama, English, Feature, Feature Film-drama, Movie, One Last Heist, Police Detective Film, Profanity, Rogue Cops, Slick
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Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Date undefinedIt is not often that a movie will stay in print for over ten years. The few that do are usually classics from Hollywood's golden age, blockbusters or multiple Oscar films. Heat has none of these credentials. No Oscars, while it did well at the box office it is not a top grosser and it is not from the golden age. What can this film offer that keeps it in print?
First, this is a superior caper movie. The screenplay and dialog are first rate with no false notes.
Second, the casting is wonderful! This is the first pairing of De Niro & Pacino, two excellent actors that are always fun to watch. One possible disappointment is how little time the two are together. After that is an inspired supporting cast. Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Diane Venora, Natalie Portman & Amy Brenneman are uniformly excellent in their roles. Each one is completely believable with no false notes. Add to this a host of faces that you recognize at once and you have one of the most professional move cast ever.
Third, the action sequences are outstanding! The armored car robbery is very well done. The main shootout is one of the best on film. It ranks with Bonnie & Clyde or The Wild Bunch.
Last, you get a lot of move for your money. This is not one of those 88-minute quickies that rush from title to end credits. They take the time to develop characters, make them real, tell the story and add a WOW factor. The subplots work and add to the characters and the main story. However, the movie never drags, your attention never falters as this excellent cast works with an excellent script.
Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Date undefinedPLOT
A gang of elite thieves are eventually overcome by elite detectives. Loved ones on both sides are affected by the process, as are various underworld figures and the Los Angeles public.
REVIEW
John Walker, during his turn as sole contributor to Halliwell's Film Guide, docked this film several marks for creating an inappropriate allegory between the lives and minds of criminals and the lives and minds of police. Yet this allegory does not sufficiently taint Michael Mann's intricate, character-driven and highly developed crime thriller.
An epic cast play rugged, cool-headed leading men; their smart, feisty, genuinely attractive women; and a chorus of sleazy, doom-destined underworld figures. In particular, Al Pacino's character displays some hilarious neuroses as the damaged lead detective; while the sleek, understated chemistry of the core criminal gang, played by Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore and Danny Trejo, is superior even to that of the Wild Bunch.
Mann finds time to display his seasoned knowledge of police procedure and criminal code, while acknowledging the inescapable forces of love, retribution and chaos. Above all, however, the film is to be commended for several key action sequences that are guaranteed to greatly excite the vast majority of discerning viewers.
ELEPHANT STAMPS
Michael Mann for writing.
Michael Mann for direction.
Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Date undefinedI won't spend much time rehashing the praise other reviewers have given this film. I will say that there is a sense of destiny in the conclusion; the ending seems an inevitable result of the character's choices, and their choices seem foregone aspects of the "stuff they're made of".
There's a subtle mythic quality about Heat, more felt than realized.
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