Big-Time Crime Drama

Rating: 8/10 (1 February 2003)

A ruthless band of thieves, led by a criminal mastermind, locks horns with a driven, monomaniacal detective bent on their destruction. While the law closes in, the thieves plan their last big heist; a high-risk endeavor that will set them all up for life. Will their tenuous thread of luck hold, or will they go down in a modern Gotterdammerung?
What Grand Opera is to musicals, "Heat" is to crime movies. It's well choreographed, loaded with action, fired with fever pitch emotions and tempered by deep personal drama. A great director and an amazing testosterone-driven troupe of actors power "Heat" through its three-hour running time. But don't worry; at the conclusion of the movie you'll wish there was more.