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Summary: sleek
Review: This film is tight, sexy, blue, sharp, stylish, and timeless. On the cover it says "A Los Angeles Crime Saga." It is truly epic. Some have said that this is the greatest movie ever made. Seriously, they may not be far off the mark. It is that good. Never have I felt so inside of movie lives as I did here. You get ingested by Pacino, DeNiro, and Kilmer. Ashley Judd and Hank Azaria and Tom Sizemore are good, too. One of the characters who also stands out is Waynegro! Yeah. He rox. What a scumbag - he personifies a small-time ex-con dirtbag who is looking to score big. Waynegro! And DeNiro taps...proper towards the end. He is great. I think you will agree.
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Summary: Two Movie Giants, A Giant Of A Movie!
Review: Originally a cheap TV movie directed by Michael 'Miami Vice' Mann, "LA Takedown", it took six years for Mann to do a Hollywood remake. It was worth the wait. Combining some of the best actors/actresses in hollywood (notably Al Pacino and Rober De Niro) with a huge ensemble cast and a top notch director and you have a memorable, stylish and witty thriller that is never too complicated. It follows the story of a veteran homocide dectective, Vincent Hanna (Pacino)who's own life comes second to catching a gang of theives led by Neil McCauley (De Niro) after a bloody heist of an armoured car. As the case progresses, McCauley meets a woman who he knows he must leave the second he spots the 'heat around the corner'. Inevitably, in the final scene, he does just that as Al Pacino finally catches up with him. The is humour, action, tragedy and wit in this movie- criticized for being too long by some. By the way, the film includes, quite possibly, the best shootout ever to grace the screens. Buy it!
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Summary: Can it get any better???
Review: Two people: DeNiro VS Pacino
One Film
Need I say more!
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Summary: The Heat is on!
Review: Sorry, this isn't going to be a particularly helpful review. I thought I'd just say that this movie is definitely worth buying, even more worth seeing. Sort of a mix between Sneakers and the Usual Suspects, only not really. : - ) You'll like it I think.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: In the theater, the big bank robbery scene is the
LOUDEST shootout I have ever heard. Pacino is great in this, but De Niro is better.
He is a cold blooded, quite ruthless robber, who
is shown as such and yet, we the audience like him.
We like him a lot. Of course as this is an American movie, he has to
pay in the end, but that's OK. Strangely and I cannot
really explain it, my sympathy slowly leaches over to
Pacino as the movie progresses and though the De Niro
character is still itself sympathetic, I do not see
the end of the movie as tragic. Now that seems to me to be bravurra film making. Mr Mann is on top top form here.
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Summary: "I am alone, I am not lonely"
Review: "Heat" is without a doubt the finest movie ever made. Getting a chance to watch the two best actors go head to head is great, as well as rare. The coffee shop scence is almost classic. The shootout after the bank heist is the best shootout of all time. As well as one of the best action scences ever filmed. The film also features a great supporting cast.The music also gives the film another touch of greatness. Keep in mind this is not an action movie such as a Die Hard or a Lethal Weapon. It is a crime drama at it's best. But the action will blow you away. You might just break your rewind button for the shootout scence.
Rating: 
Summary: A 90's Thief
Review: Michael Mann came to the big screen with "Thief" in 1981. Very similar heist story, independent pro "undone" by becoming emotionally entangled. Very different ending, though. If you liked "Heat" for the story and the genre, you should check out "Thief".
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Summary: I've got three dead bodies on the sidewalk...............
Review: "Heat" is without a doubt the best movie ever made. A real story about real people. The villains aren't bulletproof superheroes, nor are the cops. They actually reload in a gunfight. Cars don't blow up after being hit by a few rounds. The musical score is one of the greatest ever recorded for a film. The final scene is one of the greatest final scenes in any movie ever filmed. Of course, the bank heist scene has no equal when it comes to gun-battles in film. Michael Mann's photography style (bluish tint) is unsurpassed. If you dislike heat, you can go back to reading your fantasy-world comic books and watch the thousands of movies that don't even try for realism.
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Summary: Ups & Downs
Review: What is demonstrated most clearly in HEAT is the different directions taken by De Niro and Pacino in the 20+ years since they were young actors in THE GODFATHER and THE GODFATHER PART II. Pacino, who was such a thrill to watch in his early days, is now almost unbearable. He's lost any sense of subtlety or depth. In THE GODFATHER there was a quiet rage, an anger and intensity that bubbled just under his surface that was just amazing to watch. Now he just screams every line. In HEAT he cackles and yells in every scene, hollering at traffic, hollering at his wife, hollering at De Niro, hollering out his breakfast order...it just never stops. 'Round about SCARFACE Pacino stopped being an actor--and he'd been a great one up until that point--and started being a very bad caricature of himself. I call it the Marty Scheen syndrome. De Niro, on the other hand, was already great at GODFATHER PART II, and has spent his time since then perfecting his craft. He's become the best actor of his generation, (unless you put Jack Nicholson in the same generation, and then it's a tie), an actor who can do action, thrillers, comedy--whatever. He is the best. As for the film itself, I'm not as taken with it as many others seem to be. It's a good action flick, but I wouldn't put DIE HARD in the same category as APOCOLYPSE NOW, if you get my drift. HEAT is good at what it tries to do, but I don't know that it tries to do very much. All this talk of "dissecting the psychology" of a cop and a criminal, finding out they're not that different, yadda yadda yadda--what a load of whooey. The conversation De Niro and Pacino have over a cup of coffee, which could have been a great set piece for both their careers and a moment movie fans would be able to recall like Bogie getting drunk in CASABLANCA or Brando emerging from the darkness in APOCOLYPSE NOW, is tedious and contrived. Pacino appears to make several blundering ad-libs, and you wouldn't be surprised to see De Niro come out of character long enough to ask him what the heck he's doing. And Val Kilmer's part is virtually non-existent. Kilmer is a hit or miss actor--he hit on all cylinders in TOMBSTONE, missed on all in BATMAN--and this is mostly a miss.
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Summary: Killer Movie
Review: Simply the best cops 'n' robbers shoot out scene, ever. And the movie is better
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