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Summary: A home theatre enthusiasts dream!
Review: With 500,000 rounds of ammunition used in the botched bank robbery, it is a shame that this movie has not been released on DVD. The surround effects are still worth checking out on VHS though and Pacino and Val Kilmer deliver awesome performances.
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Summary: Excellent movie you will get attached to forever!
Review: Deniro Pacino Kilmer and the rest of this all star cast puts together a truely griping crime saga filled with action drama and a soundtrack that go together perfectly!
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Summary: IT IS THE BEST MOVIE
Review: THIS VIDEO IS ACTION PACKED. I RECOMMEND FOR EVERYONE TO SEE THIS VIDEO
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Summary: You want character depth? Here it is.
Review: Pro's and Con's. Ex-cons that is. There is a masterful aura of omniscience, of feeling how both the good and the bad feel here. The character's are happy, torn, dedicated, and obsessed. All the while there is an awesome story of crime and morality taking place. You will understand each character, I guaruntee. This is masterful. Thank you Michael Mann, Robert Deniro, and most of all, Thanks Al.
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Summary: a spectacular team
Review: If you still havent seen "Heat", most likely you don't know what to watch. De Niro and Pacino are perfect and extremely professional in this full of tension action movie. I just do not want to beleive people who have not seen the picture exist. They have to be proclaimed as art handicapped.
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Summary: "Heat" is Hot.... the DVD is Not.
Review: Take two of the greatest actors of our time in Al Pacino & Robert DiNero, a brilliant screenplay and Michael Mann at the helm and you have a sure fire hit of a movie! Right? Right! Take that same combination on DVD and you have a great DVD to match that film right? Uh...well not exactly."Heat" is arguably the best if not, then one of the best "cops and robbers" films ever to grace the big screen. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the effort of putting this on DVD. In case movie companies aren't getting it, there are DVD's that have set the standard higher in terms of features. People don't want JUST high quality picture and sound, people want to see the scene's that got shuffled around on the cutting room floor, documentaries and what the crew ate for lunch on the third day of shooting. Not just the movie and a couple of trailers. Here's what the "Heat" DVD does offer: 1) Widescreen format - 2:35:1 ratio
2) Dolby Stereo
3) Theatrical Trailers The movie is a dark, cat and mouse, crime drama set in the city of Los Angeles. Robert DiNero plays veteran criminal Neil McCaulley who with his crew (Kilmer, Sizemore, etc.) are taking on heists more daring than the last. All the while Lt. Vincent Hannah (Al Pacino) is hot on their trail. Michael Mann depicts the events and their rippling effects on lives associated with the main characters. To paraphrase actress Diane Venora who plays (Justine) Pacino's neglected wife, it is a "trail of mess that is left behind" by Pacino and DiNero. There is a good blend of action and an intelligent story line featuring veteran actors and actresses such as Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, a very young Natalie Portman and others. All leading to a final confrontation between Pacino and Di Nero. The movie also incorporates brilliant cinematography, excellent music/sound and of course top notch acting. Hopefully the outcry from the ardent fans will motivate the film company to re-release this title with a few more goodies. As great as this film is, the overall DVD effort is disappointing. If you're hoping for bonuses...sorry, the VHS format will offer as much in the extra department as the DVD.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: this movie has some of the best acting i've ever seen. the plot is great and the action scenes are also great. the dvd i'm reviewing now lacks extras, but a special edition is supposed to come out later this year. some might not like it being three hours, but i think the three hours i spent watching were well worth it.
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Summary: One Star Short Of A Classic
Review: What a cracker of a movie. Well done to Michael Mann. De Niro & Pacino are outstanding in this top class movie with support players Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight, Michael Madsen et al merely adding their considerable talents to a great action thriller. Previous reviewers have laready drawn attention to the bank robbery scene as being one of the most impressive on film. I can only recall the station scene from 'The Untouchables' as being equally memorable. The interplay between De Niro & Pacino in the now famous 'coffee scene' is a collision of two major modern talents and equally impressive for totally different reasons - the grudging respect shines through. Professional is a largely overworked term but it applies throughout this movie - both from a sorytelling as well as an acting and production point of view. It misses 5 stars only because of the director's introduction of a 'neat, tucked away' ending with the pre-requisite corpse. Throughout the movie De Niro remains steadfast to his philosophy that he would walk away without looking back if the heat were on. I believe we should have rolled credits immediately after the 'unspken realisation' where he and his newly acquired lover/companion realise the heat is truly on and that it is over for them by quirk of circumstance. Was it really necessary to add anything else - least of all a tedious chase onto the runway of the airport? It had all been said with great subtlety and impact already.
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Summary: Pacino -vs- Deniro
Review: This is the best crime movie ever made, the lives of cops & criminals are explored very deeply here, In this film Pacino is a workoholic police detective, so devoted that his wife(Diane Venora)feels neglected, his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman) is going through adolescent confusion, & he is so obsessed that he can't see his life falling apart, DeNiro is at his best here as a career criminal that is so smart that it fustrates Pacino, a robbery gone wrong involving DeNiro, his companion Kilmer, as well as others is what draws the attention of Pacino, the cat & mouse game that the two leads play with each other are very entertaining at times, if not funny, the scene where DeNiro & his crew set up Pacino & his fellow officers on a potential target that is in hindsight a set up to see who is on to them is comical in itself as Pacino tells his men: "you know what they are looking at..... US!!!!, we just got made" fustrated Pacino arranges a meeting with DeNiro in the hopes of getting inside his way of thinking is by far the best sequence, the downtown shootout in which Pacino infiltrates DeNiro's supposed last robbery, is so realistic that the viewer is at times shaken up, this film definately plays on the theory that eventually a life of crime has no happy ending, the one on one showdown between DeNiro & Pacino is so tense that by the end you are left with nothing but strong emotion & a sense of respect that the two men come to have for one another, definately the thinking person's action movie. Highy Recommended!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: "At the drop of a hat, they were rock 'n roll"
Review: One of my favorite moments in cinema from the past decade?
Val Kilmer emerges from a shiny L.A. bank with roughly $700,000,000,000 in a sack on his back. Elliott Goldenthal's "Force Marker" clicks and bumps and pulses on the soundtrack. Kilmer's in a grey suit, he's got his shades on, he's grinning, strutting a little, he's roughly eight feet away from being the last man into the getaway car and, oops, he spots a flash of an ambush waiting on the other side of a passing bus. Boom, in 0.8 seconds he just lets rip with the AK. And then we're off into a live action "Grand Theft Auto" inspiration, a truly staggering sequence that absolutely must be seen in widescreen. Turn it up.
Finally we have a decent DVD edition of the best cop movie of the 1990s. One of the great pleasures of moviegoing in this century is to see the way Michael Mann points a camera at city nightscapes, clothing, guns, vehicles, wrist watches, cash, blueprints, helicopters, crime scenes, power tools, telephones, cars and the eyes of men and women doing hard work. All of that is on display here.
I could go on forever about the extas here (praising the cool commentary by Mann, slamming the "deleted" scenes, sending out minor gripes about non-juiced-up picture and sound) but others have already done that better than I could. Great movie.
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