Something screwy here!

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2003)

Huh??? HEAT doesn't make the IMDb's top 250 movies, yet forty others DO with a lower user-rating...and dozens more with the SAME rating! Yeah right! Funnier still, if one is to take seriously the entire rating system we would be stifling a laugh that LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING rates Number 6 and this masterpiece not within "hundreds" of it? Is the world actually populated by THAT many cretins?
HEAT is as good as film gets..if only for that cafe scene between De Niro and Pacino. Professionalism like this, I hadn't seen equalled until this month's KILL BILL.
Mann fashioned a masterpiece with HEAT, one that succeeds on all levels: script, direction, action, purpose and ultimately - audience interaction. If you can't see that, don't watch it!