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Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2013)

If I had to choose just one movie to watch again before I die, it would be Heat. There are better and more accomplished movies, many of them to be exact, but Heat just reaches in and touches me on an emotional level, and in a way that no other movie can match. It many ways, large and small it explores what it means to be alive, and to be worthy, as a man. It's very personal. Honour, duty, loyalty, excellence, sacrifice, commitment, integrity and compassion is displayed under extreme and often tragic circumstances. The combination of the cinematography, the music and De Niro and Pacino at the absolute height of their powers is magnificent. I just love it.