Pacino and De Niro- do you wanna more?

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2005)

All those who expect a great action flick will not be disappointed by Michael Mann's excellent gangster-film 'Heat'. Those who wish a little more will not be let down either. After a slow and rather conventional, and therefore pretty uninteresting beginning, the movie's rhythm gets faster and tries to tell the story of several characters (De Niro, Pacino, Kilmer, etc.) at once. The consequence of this is that the film lacks a little bit a precise focus, while the structure still is excellent. How well the different elements eventually fit together is amazing and, especially for an action film, brilliant. The two protagonists are extremely well drawn, which is mostly due to the excellent performances by Pacino and De Niro, but the cast in general (Voight, Levine, Portman, ...) is breathtaking. And let us not neglect the most important part of an action movie: the action scenes. Their choreography is an example to follow for other directors. So, all in all one of the best action films of the 90s whose acting and direction are marvelous.
Rating: 84
MarSco