The Marty Turco of movies (underrated for you non-hockey fans)

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2004)

Is is just me or is Heat the most underrated cop/robber movie of the last twenty years? Seriously, any movie with Val Kilmer in the foreground, doing his cool and Tom Sizemore in the background with a twenty-two inch flame coming out of an AK - - has to be awesome. And the cast...Al Pacino, enough said; Tom Sizemore (nominated many times...no, not for an Oscar, but a Golden Satellite - and he won, for Saving Private Ryan); Val Kilmer, also nominated (not for an Oscar), but multiple MTV Movie Awards (also won); Natalie Portman as an unknown, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd. Oh wait, I'm forgetting a big name. ROBERT DE NIRO. An average of 3 Academy Award nominations among the cast members I just mentioned. Tap 3 more nominations on Michael Mann for directing. All this combines to make the best Cop/Robber movie of the 90's, easily.