Great action and acting

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 1999)

Well directed study of the motivations that drive both a burglar and a police detective and how similar the two men indeed are. Mann does a masterful job of carrying the story along and "supporting" performances by Val Kilmer and John Voight only bolster the already great job turned in by Pacino and DeNiro. The scene in the coffee house where the two men finally sit down and talk is, without attempting to be inflammatory, one of the greatest scenes in American cinema.