One of Micheal Manns greatest stories PERIOD

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2007)

Heat, one of my personal favorites is a powerhouse of emotion and is a haunting and beautiful crime saga. when people first see the film, Mann fans expect them to talk about the heist and that what happens. besides the robbery being one of the greatest heist scenes in American cinema history, everything surrounding that is twice as great. First the story,a group of professional thieves are forced to pull a big one after the last job went stale. Apart from them, the cops who are tracking them are on the constant move when their thieves make a move. Second, the character build up is by far the deepest of any movie I've seen. Al Pacino plays a detective who is struggling to keep his work out of his personal life. Robert De Niro is a thief who plays the cool and composed professional but yet is isolated from everyone else. The movie's final comedown is simply beautiful and brings a tear to my eye as Al Pacino grips his dying enemy's hand as they realize that they are not so different after all.