
Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren.... (Full plot summary below)
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Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren.
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| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonA film much better written than executed... has the appearance at every moment of a hatchet job that got cranked out in record time because nobody involved had any real desire to make it. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...although L.A. Takedown is about half the length of Heat, the movie feels so much longer and poorly-paced than its big-screen successor... |
| User ReviewRachel CSome of the best one-liners I've ever heard - "she's a nice piece"! |
| User ReviewLady DA slice of 80's gold. Classic 80's guitar rifts!! so much better than Heat |
| User ReviewGeoff PMann's first take on the story that would later become Heat, and this film is just as good. Unfortunately eclipsed by its flashier, A-list remake. |
| User ReviewPatrick BMichael Mann's TV movie of the same story "Heat" |
| User ReviewSebastian Hfew people know that HEAT is a remake of this movie. I liked it, but knowing Heat it's a bit weird to watch... but great to see some of Mann's roots |
| User ReviewJoey PC'est kitch mais à voir pour les fan de Mann souhaitant découvrir les origines de HEAT. |
| User ReviewJustin BTis a shame that I am only just getting to watch this now as I'd have seen it before Heat inna perfect world but tis notta perfect world and you can't watch this without thinking about Heat. The acting ranges from good to shocking, the movie seems like an episode of Miami Vice, esp with the clothes and the 80's feel but Mann definitely had something and changed very little while adding more deph and emotion when he decided to redo this. If you haven't seen this ain't too bad at all.. but if you haven't seen Heat then in all honesty you should be shot lol. |
| User ReviewJohn WI've had this DVD sitting around for a couple of years now and never watched it until now. It's pretty much Mann's precursor to Heat, unfortunately it has that certain feel you get with made-for-television movies. I was surprised to see Michael Rooker in it. |