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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790728582
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304214529
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 12, 1996
Running Time: 171 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1995
Sales Rank: 45104
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Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of The Godfather, Part II, but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together, and although their only scene together is brief, it's the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino, playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop and criminal lead similar lives. Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; and Kilmer's wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career. These are men obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's necessary to bring the other down. Mann's brilliant screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with absorbing insight, and the tension mounts with some of the most riveting action sequences ever filmed--most notably a daylight siege that turns downtown Los Angeles into a virtual war zone of automatic gunfire. At nearly three hours, the film qualifies as a kind of intimate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently waiting for more action, but it's all part of Mann's compelling strategy. Heat is a true rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of intense excitement and dramatic depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a prime showcase for their finely matched talents. --Jeff Shannon
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It 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 ... Read More
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PLOT
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 ... Read More
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I 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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`Heat' is lauded as one of the greatest crime epics ever; a triumph of acting, directing and screen writing. I personally wasn't able to see this film for the longest time. I guess I shouldn't say `wasn't able'; I just never got around to it. Finally, after all the poking and prodding from friends, I sat down to digest this supposed masterpiece and was able to draw my own conclusions on the matter.
Very, very good.
Notice I didn't say masterpiece; but it is very close. I ... Read More
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I have never seen a great movie than this.
The pace is great,the storyline is fantastic and it keeps u guessing till the end how it ever ends.
Well Of course its Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.A* list actors with a cool sense.I am glad to have watched this on DVD.
Its great.The picture us clear and perfect.The sound,5.1, makes you jump out of your seat.Somehow, whenever a Warner Bros dvd is released,it always has better sound and picture quality then other dvd producer(giving ... Read More
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790728582
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304214529
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 12, 1996
Running Time: 171 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1995
Sales Rank: 45104
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