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Heat

1995

Michael Mann

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight ...

7.5

52,900

Thriller. Action. Mystery The story is about an intense rivalry between expert thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and volatile cop Vincent Hanna (Al 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Stunningly made and incisively acted by a large and terrific cast, Michael Mann's ambitious study of the relativity of good and evil stands apart from other films of its type"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Pacino and De Niro are together only briefly, but writer-director Mann milks their scenes dry"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Extraordinary actors, clever settings, a maze of a plot and a screenplay with nearly 70 speaking roles don't change the fact that 'Heat' is fundamentally hollow and its characters haven't much to say."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The notion of criminals as lonely, existential warriors is of course not new, but it’s rarely done with as much dexterity and panache as Mann and company have provided"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It's not just an action picture. Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"The problem is not so much that the conceit doesn't work as it is that the director has overdressed it (...) The movie never transcends the limitations of its Hemingwayesque, men-with-men attitudes"	NEU
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"It's a cat-and-mouse game played by experts. Mann stages some howlingly effective action sequences"	POS

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