Embarassing

Rating: 2/10 (12 April 2018)

Giving this film a two star rating was at least 500% more enjoyable and satisfying than watching it. Heat is predictable and cliche at its best moments and cringe inducing at its worst. Al Pacino gives one of the most terrible, over the top performances of his life as a grizzled detective who is also apparently on the LA SWAT team and does all the door kicking for the department for unknown reasons. Pacino even has a coffee date with Deniro just so they can have their deep "you and I aren't so different you know" conversation and cap it off with some threats to eachother that basically spell out the unlikely and ridiculous final confrontation of the film where Deniro and Pacino square off one on one.
Deniro is okay considering what a terrible script he's going off of but his character is little more than a big fat walking cliche. The whole film is about as interesting as a South Park parody of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
I will say that only reason I gave this two stars instead of one is because the guns sound powerful and realistic and the two big action scenes are fairly enjoyable. The photography was also good and most of the film looked pretty cool. If there had been a decent movie with an interesting and vaguely believable plot to connect the big action scenes it could have been pretty decent. As it is it's unremarkable, pretentious and pretty silly. I'm a little mystified at how highly rated this movie is.