Disappointment of the decade

Rating: 2/10 (19 May 1999)

De Niro and Pacino on the silver screen together for the first time in a crime thriller, sounds mouth watering doesn't it?. Sadly though this film bows under the pressure and ends up flat on its face. Talk about the most over rated film of all time, HEAT has got to take the biscuit. Apart from a fabulous street shoot out between the goodies and the baddies, which is so realistic you will think you are actually there, there is absolutely nothing to this film. It is slow, verrrry boring and apart from THAT scene has no action in it what so ever. The script is lost in the hype as the clock ticks on very slowly indeed and as for the scene where nemesis's De Niro and Pacino discuss their intentions 'over coffee' I just have to say eh????, what's that all about???. The climax is also predictable and poor which about sums up the whole film. If you must see this idea on screen watch the film it was based on, the little known LA TAKEDOWN as although it is also pretty rubbish, it saves you 1 and a half hours of your life.