Two greatest crime drama actors' hide and seek duel

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2020)

3-hour crime dramas are a thing that I don't watch very often because I get bored so easily. I'm the kind of person who likes movies to be 90 minutes long. But watching Heat I remembered again that length doesn't make a movie good or bad. It's how well it's directed and acted.
I'm not very familiar with Michael Mann but he seems like a director who knows how to tell a story. Also we have a super cast of great actors. Al Pacino belongs to my favorites. He's sympathetic even when he plays gangsters, but this time he's a cop, so he's even more relatable as a good guy. Robert De Niro plays the main bad guy who is cool too. These two legends make great arch enemies who try to outsmart each other before the other does. One of my favorite scenes is when they meet for the first time and have a chat over coffee together - the two guys who are trying to kill each other!
The movie is quite slow but there are a couple of more action packed scenes that will put the heat (excuse the pun) on.
Because of the length and slow pace I'm not going to watch it again very soon but I got the feeling that I will probably at some point. It's a well made crime drama that you won't forget right away. Check it out!