Best movie ever!

Rating: 9/10 (8 October 2005)

20 reasons why "Heat" is the best movie ever
1- Best cast for a movie ever. How's this for a cast: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Amy Brennemann, Ashley Judd, Natalie Portman, Hank Azaria, Henry Rollins, Tone Loc, Jeremy Piven, Mykelti (I have the coolest voice ever) Williamson, WIlliam Fichtner
2- Love movies where the main character can beat up people twice their size, in this case Neil McCauley beating up Wayne Gro a few times and Henry Rollins. Close runner up would be Ed Norton beating up DeNiro's bodyguard in "The Score"
3- Pacino explaining the first crime scene. It's so good you can overlook the amount of things he says that would be obvious to cops but not to us, the naive viewer (the exits, how they knew the average police response time etc). Not done as well in "The Day After Tomorrow" when scientists explain basic weather information that many movie goers wouldn't know. It would be like in "Rocky" if the trainer said "Hey Rock, you gotta knock him out before the 12th because that's when the fight ends".
4. Al Pacino never saying "goodbye" or "ok" to end phone calls. Looks so cool just hanging up at the time you feel like it. I tried it a few times on friends but they no longer talk to me so my technique obviously needs some work.
5. Neil McCauley's routine to pick up Eady at the bar. If you've never gotten a date, try this.
6. Al Pacino's couple of screaming rants. Bill Simmons said about Pacino is his piece on DeNiro v Pacino that all of his characters in the last 10 years have basically been like the one he plays in "Scent of a Woman". Lots of silly yelling and screaming. The best one in this movie is probably "Gimme all you got!" in his ridiculous conversation with Albert.
7. The cameos in this movie. The best ones being Henry Rollins , Jeremy Piven and Tone Loc.
8. The quote: "Have no attachments, allow nothing to be in your life that you cannot walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat coming around the corner"
9. How creepy the diner manager is. He'd be awesome in "My Restaurant Rules"
10. When has the "cop pursuing likable criminal" not worked? My second favorite movie of all-time is "The Fugitive", so. Even "US Marshalls" is watchable purely on this premise. Oh hang on, theory ruined, I forgot about the Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones one, "Double Jeopardy".
11. Another McCauley quote "I'm talking to an empty phone...There's a dead man on the end of this line." Try it on a telemarketer sometime for a laugh.
12. Vincent Hanna talking to Kate about why he doesn't talk talk about his work. Great Pacino work. She holds her own too, except that haircut ruined her character for me.
13. The fact the movie seems to be around bank robbers but really is all about relationships. Watch from about the 56min mark for 10 minutes and see how it goes right into them. The movie has them all. The dead relationship between Kate and Vince, the blossoming relationship between Neil and Eady, the roller coaster ride of Chris and Charley and lots more.
14. One of the few action movies with cops ever where no-one over rides the man in charge's orders. It's pretty much a staple of cop movies these days. See "The Negotiator" and "Con Air" for the worst offenders.
15. Pacino quote: "Who..Who...What are you a %$^&*( owl?"
16. Neil's suit.
17. "The Scene" with Vincent and Neil having a chat over coffee. Both guys are almost having an "act-off" (like the "walk off" in Zoolander). Forget Shakespeare, aspiring actors should watch and rehearse a role from this scene and they'll be set for a huge career.
18. Pacino Quote: "I'm very angry, Ralph"
19. The directing of Michael Mann. Visually stunning movie.
20. The Shooutout. Awesome cinema. Once again, look past the fact the layout is absolutely ridiculous (see Kilmer standing in between two ends of wall to wall cops and shooting one way and then the other)