22 years on undisputed perfection

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2017)

In the light of the 22 years past and gone after it, "Heat" looks prophetic even in its take on the fall of machismo as a decadent, female-less world option, one in which men can only dream of being accompanied but actually end up holding each other's lifeless hands.
Still, after all is said and done, Mann's work, steeped in its steel blues, and dimmed blurred lights of some deep background (as if Gatsby's green light refers once more to men beating on "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"), remains the finest, saddest urban rhapsody of people irretrievably lost on what they 're after.