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| Movie Description Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are finally together on screen in this riveting story about an intense rivalry between expert thief Neil McCauley (De Niro) and volatile cop Vincent Hanna (Pacino). McCauley will stop at nothing to do what he does best and neither will Hanna, even though it means destroying everything around them, including the people they love. With a solid supporting cast that includes Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, and Natalie Portman, HEAT is a truly epic crime story.
Notes DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Letterboxed Dual Layer Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - French Additional Release Material: Trailers - 1.Theatrical Trailers (3) Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access, Theatrical release: December 15, 1995. HEAT was filmed in 65 locations in and around Los Angeles. No soundstages were used. HEAT marks the first time that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared the screen. Although they both appeared in THE GODFATHER PART II, they didn't have any scenes together. The film was originally made as L.A. TAKEDOWN for television in 1989 with an entirely different cast. Director Michael Mann disowned the edited television version of HEAT aired by NBC. To create a realistic character for thief Neil McCauley, Mann visited Folsom State Penitentiary to interview inmates. As McCauley, De Niro's collars were always pressed and starched perfectly, just as they would have been in prison. Al Pacino had a clause in his contract that allowed him to make up a certain number of his own lines. The film grossed $67.4 million domestically. Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone - p.138 - Peter Travers Sight and Sound - p.43-4 - John Wrathall USA Today - p.1D - Mike Clark Premiere - p.35 - Christine Spines Entertainment Weekly - pp.72-3 - Ty Burr Variety - Todd McCarthy Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (12/15/1995) Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (12/15/1995) Total Film - Daniel Webb (04/01/2004) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||
  Cops 'n' Robbers!Review created: 04/15/00 by: George_Chabot-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies  Pros: Great gun battles Cons: Soapy complications and side plots Heat (1995) Director Michael Mann's crime thriller "Heat" is the story of two men, outlaw Robert DeNiro and good guy Al Pacino. DeNiro plays "Neil". a career criminal who specializes in "scores", big robberies. Pacino is on the other side of the law, as cop "Vince Hanna". The movie is significantly different than most cops 'n' robber films for the character development that builds throughout the movie, not just for the main characters, but also for the supporting cast. You see the parallel lives of Neil and Vince; both are highly successful in their chosen professions, but their personal lives are in the toilet. Vince is on the downhill slope of a fourth marriage, Neil lives in a colorless, sterile apartment without even furniture, ready to leave the moment he senses the heat around the corner. Neither one tries too seriously to deal with their personal lives however; they are always obsessing about their careers. The initial sequences show one of Neil's scores, an armored truck robbery that goes off brilliantly, except one of the robbers, obviously a psychotic, shoots one of the guards for no reason. The robbers immediately kill all the guards. Later, Vince comments on this, noting that kill one, kill them all is the sign of a professional. Meanwhile, at the diner, the robbers are making plans for splitting the loot. DeNiro makes a mistake, letting the offending robber escape, instead of killing him. This is the director's way of showing he is losing his grip. This mistake costs Neil in the end. The supporting cast is excellent, with Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, and John Voight on the robbers' side and Wes Studi on the cops'. There are women in the cast, but they do not provide much more than window dressing. This film is about cops and robbers. When Vince and Neil finally meet face to face, we realize they are really pretty much the same. The gun battles are superb, the action sequences gripping. However, as a con, there was a little too much character development of some of the side characters, particularly Waingro (the psycho), and Vince's wife. The story grew from a tight action thriller to a soap opera-like production. The film could have benefited from some judicious cutting. Fans of "Heat" will also like "Casino", "Carlito's Way", "Scarface", and the Godfather series, particularly part II. Al Pacino fans will also like "Sea of Love", in which he plays a cop. Review ID: 10000000000378797 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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