
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobe... (Full plot summary below)
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Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....
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| Empire MagazineIan NathanHeat packs more into one cop movie than the entire genre output of the last five years. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkHeat is in the cop-movie pantheon with Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low," and that's as "right" as the genre gets. |
| Detroit NewsSusan StarkBoosters and touts use the term 'major movie' so often that it's more likely to generate yawns than excitement at this point. Back to basics. Heat is a major movie. With major stars. Doing major acting. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving. The dark end of the street doesn't get much more inviting than this. |
| Austin ChronicleSimon CoteOne of the most intelligent crime-thrillers to come along in years. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyStunningly 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 by virtue of its extraordinarily rich characterizations and its thoughtful, deeply melancholy take on modern life. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDragan AntulovThe action, just like in any great film, is subservient to plot and characters. |
| Film ThreatChris Barsanti...one of the greatest crime films of all time. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseA stealth epic, framing an urban jungle and making its own kind of contemporary history by pairing acting giants Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in what has arguably become the preminent cops-and-robbers movie. [Blu-ray] |
| 2UE That Movie ShowBlake HowardThe conversation in Heat is one of the most perfectly executed and eloquently intertextual moments in the history of American Cinema. |