Is a cop obsessed with nabbing a thief, played by Robert DeNiro, in Heat. Heat is a sort of thinking man's cops and robbers tale. Pacino's character is likewise a loner, but he hasn't really figured that out for himself yet. His third marriage is a shambles.
Heat opens with a beautifully planned and executed armored car robbery.
Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore play two of De Niro's regular bad-guy crew. They try out a newcomer for the armored car job, and right at the end, he screws up. The heat is on. And he also works myriad threads into the fabric of the narrative, drawing several stories together slowly but surely as Heat moves toward a conclusion. It all brings Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight and Mykelti Williamson, among others, into the mix.