Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition) | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro

Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition) | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro | A character-driven masterpiece

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	Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition) Al Pacino, Robert De Niro Warner Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 492 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro squarer off HEAT sizzles. A tale of a brilliant L.A. cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). Val Kilmer Jon Voight Tom Sizemore Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman co-star.Running Time: 172 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085392891924

A Michael Mann Crime epic

This is a great film. It's characters are rich, complex and dark. It's visuals are stunning and modern. And it has both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro churning out amazing performances. This is a crime epic that follows the lives of both the criminals and the cops. It relates the two sides and compares there moral codes, revealing their similarities. Heat is an amazingly complex character study. Every character is three dimensional and that makes the action that much more intense. Speaking of action Heat has several of the best action scenes on film including an amazing bank heist and shootout filmed in downtown L.A. This is a Michael Mann masterpiece I highly recommend it.

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A character-driven masterpiece

I don't know I missed seeing this terrific film when it first came out, but somehow I did. It's a brilliantly written, beautifully acted, deeply involving cops and robbers story, starring Al Pacino as police Lt. Vincent Hanna, a loud-mouthed sleuth with an ex-wife (and a not-happy current spouse) who always gets his man, and Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley, extremely skilled professional heist man. Both are rather thoughtful and analytical and there's a great scene where they sit down in a coffee shop and wax philosophical about their antagonistic relationship. The scene in which the good guys are surveiling the bad guys, only to discover that they are being examined through binoculars in turn, is also first rate. Val Kilmer plays a thoroughly scary shooter -- who, quite unexpectedly, appears to escape in the end. There are numerous interpersonal relationships, between Kilmer and his long-suffering wife (Ashley Judd) who warns him away, between Hanna and his wife and his messed-up stepdaughter (Natalie Portman), and between McCauley and a completely innocent bystander whom he comes to care for but whom he is also willing to leave behind on thirty seconds notice. All the numerous supporting roles are also very nicely done.

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Heat!

Heat is one of the best movies ever! This special edition is definitely the version to buy because the extra materials like the story of the real Neal McCauley is AWESOME!

Awesome movie, but has some technical issues

This is a great movie, don't get me wrong. The problem is though that I find myself having to constantly change the volume as I am watching it. Some of the dialogue seems practically silent so I turn it up, then they have loud music or a helicopter or something and bam, I think I've blown out my speakers. The movie is easily a five and this might just be me but having to constantly grab for the remote control when watching this movie has always taken away from the experience for me.

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