I didn't like it- OH MY GOD I MUST BE STUPID!!!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2003)

That's correct; it is a sin not to like `Heat'. Anyone who doesn't like this film should be critically flogged, beaten and crucified. Every critic in the last century is right and we are not entitled to our own personal opinions. If you haven't noticed yet, I'm being sarcastic.
I just didn't get `Heat'. I didn't see anything particularly good about it. The dialogue is boring, unmemorable and too subtle to notice. The film's only aim was to get Al Pacino and Robert De Niro (two world class actors) on screen. They succeed in doing this, but surround the actors with a whole lot of irrelevant material and a bad script.
The main problem was that it had a huge supporting cast (and I mean HUGE) that had little to do with the plot, were undeveloped and just wasted valuable screen time. Val Kilmer, who was the third actor credited, never got any conviction and was more of a decoration than a supporting actor. The rest of the easily over-seeable cast act as stand ins and get very little screen time.
The end scene with Pacino and De Niro is nicely executed, but that's about the only damn good thing about the film. I certainly wouldn't consider it an epic and overall, I thought it was nothing more than mediocre. 4.9/10.