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Heat (1995)

"A Los Angeles crime saga."
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 80%
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Director
Runtime
2h 50m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.9/10 (8,161 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
76

Cast

Al Pacino as Lt. Vincent Hanna · 75% avg
Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley · 73% avg
Val Kilmer as Chris Shiherlis · 71% avg
Jon Voight as Nate · 71% avg
Tom Sizemore as Michael Cheritto · 72% avg
Diane Venora as Justine · 74% avg
Amy Brenneman as Eady · 70% avg
Ashley Judd as Charlene Shiherlis · 71% avg

Is Heat good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#181 / 1253 · Crime
Rank in its year
#25 / 107 · 1995
Rank among its director's films
#2 / 11 · Michael Mann

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Heat is a 1995 American crime drama written and directed by Michael Mann, featuring the first on-screen meeting between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. De Niro stars as Neil McCauley, a disciplined, professional bank robber who leads a crew of skilled thieves, and Pacino plays Lieutenant Vincent Hanna, a brilliant but personally destructive LAPD detective obsessed with catching him. As both men prepare for McCauley's final score — a massive bank heist in downtown Los Angeles — their parallel lives of professional excellence and personal isolation draw them into a mutual respect that makes their inevitable confrontation tragic rather than triumphant.

The coffee shop scene, in which McCauley and Hanna sit across from each other and acknowledge their shared code — McCauley's rule of walking away from anything in 30 seconds if he feels the heat, Hanna's admission that he won't let anything stand between him and catching criminals — was one of the most anticipated and rewarding scenes in cinema history. Mann's centerpiece heist and shootout through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, filmed with live ammunition blanks at actual locations, was the most realistically staged urban gunfight in film history and directly influenced the tactics training of military and law enforcement worldwide. Heat earned $187 million worldwide.

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