One of my favorites

Rating: Null/10 (4 March 2005)

With the extensive commentary by other reviewers, there's not much I can add here, other than this is one of my favorite crime dramas. There's so little crime and violence in my life that Heat seems to be a foreign film--and what a great one at that!
Michael Mann has told a story of people I don't want to know but care about anyway. I was shocked and angered and frightened by the lives of DeNiro and Pacino and Sizemore and Kilmer.
Heat is simply one of the most effective stories about criminals I've ever seen. It's not meant to be a message film or a documentary, just really good storytelling of a harsh, angry story.
I don't want this level of misery and violence in my life, but watching good and evil battle it out in Heat on the streets and between the warehouses of LA was and one of the better 2 and 1/2 hour blocks I've spent in front of a screen.