what are you, a fu****g owl?

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2010)

In Los Angeles, a gang of armed thieves is hitting serious targets - major banks, vaults, and armoured cars.
These thieves are led by arch-criminal Neal MacAuley. One of their operations, an armoured- car robbery, goes bad and the armoured-car guards are murdered by the gunmen - putting LAPD homicide detective Vince Hanna on the trail of the thieves.
Hanna knows it will take a lot to bring these dangerous, armed thieves down, and it will end in a horrifying gun battle when the thieves try to rob a major federal bank....
not only was this the most exciting thing to happen in a movie in 1995, this in my opinion, is the last greatest work these two have ever done.
De Niro went for more comedy, family drama and Horror.
Pacino went the way of growing his hair really big and shouting a lot very loud.
They tried to capture the magic thirteen years later, but righteous kill died a death, and just goes to show how much their stars have fell for choosing such atrocious movies to be in.
Back to this film though, and as well as Pacino, De Niro, Kilemr and a star studded cast, Los Angeles has never been so good in a movie before, Mann uses the city to it's fullest in almost every scene, and although the movie is a little nineties now, it still has that oh so slick almost space age look about it, which oozes class.
Mann has made a class act in narration, storytelling and editing, and the 170 minute runtime doesn't seem that long, thanks to the amazing set piece in the middle.
The film does feel like a two part story, with the robbery in the middle just to give you a little break from all the character driven connotations and sub-plots.
So we have part one: The set up rest for the robbery Part two: the aftermath
And the sub-plots are amazingly detailed. From Hannas troubled busy life to Macauleys troubled lonely life, we are not spared a moment to catch our breath as the film is filed with so much.
The much talked about scene involving the two is good, but there are so many better scenes in the film.
The night vision scene, probably the most intense thing i have seen in the whole film, but thats the standard of the acting and the editing.
Pacino does shout a lot, and becomes a bit annoying at times, and De Niro does that thing where he repeats a certain line a few times for dramatic effect, but apart from those two minor gripes, the film is flawless.