One of Micheal Mann's best

Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2004)

Micheal Mann is one of the best crime story director's who has ever lived and this is one of his best if not his best film.
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Seizmore, Wes Studi, Natalie Portman, Dian Venora, Jon Voight, etc. This movie boasts one of the best casts ever assembled and it is the first time that Pacino and De Niro, two icons of the film industry had met in a film since Godfather Two and Heat has the first scene that ever featured the two actors together. I'm not going to go into detail because I don't want to spoil it but Pacino and De Niro's scene is so incredible and yet so subtle it has quickly become one of my favorite scene's in any movie.
This film not only tells the exciting cat and mouse crime story, but it also becomes a character study that bores into the lives of the Cop (Pacino) and the career criminal (De Niro) in an incredible depiction of the lives that these men chose and vow to see through to the last regardless of the burden that they must pay.
It has several well done action sequences that are enough to keep anyone at the edge of their seat but again this movie is about the people, their family's, and others that they love and hurt in order to fulfill their duty.
If you ever have three hours of free time make sure you see this film it will not disappoint you.