Heat |  | Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  548 reviews
Sales Rank: 11798
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 170 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: D14192D
ISBN: 0790734184
UPC: 085391419228
EAN: 9780790734187
ASIN: B00000JGHM
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1995
Release Date: July 27, 1999
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Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of The Godfather, Part II, but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together, and although their only scene together is brief, it's the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino, playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop and criminal lead similar lives. Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; and Kilmer's wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career. These are men obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's necessary to bring the other down. Mann's brilliant screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with absorbing insight, and the tension mounts with some of the most riveting action sequences ever filmed--most notably a daylight siege that turns downtown Los Angeles into a virtual war zone of automatic gunfire. At nearly three hours, the film qualifies as a kind of intimate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently waiting for more action, but it's all part of Mann's compelling strategy. Heat is a true rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of intense excitement and dramatic depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a prime showcase for their finely matched talents. --Jeff Shannon
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An L.A. cop (Al Pacino) becomes fixated on a deadly thief (Robert Dinero) and his crew ( Val Kilmer & Jon Voight) who are taking Los Angeles to the cleaners. This movie includes one of the most spectacular shoot outs in film history as Dinero and Kilmer rip through downtown Los Angeles with both guns blazing.
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 Classic March 9, 2010
William R. Nicholas (Mahwah, NJ USA)
The plot of Heat is not new. A smart thief and his crew are trying to pull a major heist and when a master cop gets wind, the film becomes about the chase.
In Heat, watching this chase takes around three hours, but that is a plus. Michael Mann makes a spacious film, recalling 1970s crime drama. This movie is really not about the action--though it is contained here--but about the characters and what leads them to the action they find themselves in
Both Al Picino, detective, and Robert De Niro, thief, are the best at their game. Since they are both brilliant--either could do the other's job--Heat becomes about the slow, meticulous creep to the final bank job. There is a long gunfight: explosive violence at its cinematic best, but this is hardly the point.
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Heat features a thief who pulls his whole crew off a middle-of-the-night job when he hears a small bump no one else does--a careful pro for a careful film. He was right, too, and one guy leaning on a wall in a truck blows the whole stakeout. There is no margin for error and this cuts both ways.
Heat also has a parolee who goes on the bank job after his new boss at a diner tells him 25% of his pay kicks back and he'll violate him if he does not cooperate.
Small details, but in crime, life rises and falls on little details, and what keeps the idiots in jail and the pros out are the choices made in such situations. Mann shows this all with incredible economy--it is at times like those three stroke oriental paintings that say everything by leaving more out than they include.
So you get drawn in just watching both cops and crooks work and live and how this impacts their lives. You are so captivated by the intelligence, anything they do makes you look harder. The length becomes essential.
Great film for snowy days.
Best Action Movie February 16, 2010
D. Roca
This movie has a 5-star cast and is a non-stop action from beggining to end.
it's not Heat for nothing..!!..?? February 5, 2010
Magier (virginia)
Pacino and DeNiro together for the ride of your life. Supported by Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, and many more great neighbors, this is truly a DVD you must have, if you collect any movies at all. There is a brief scene in a diner between the leads that is worth the whole purchase, and that's just one scene. If you don't watch that one over and over, why do you watch movies at all ?
Every actor spot on, a good story about professional good and evil, romance, and how it can make your life a struggle, all filmed, directed, and edited with brilliance, make this movie superb for folks who like this sort of thing.
Put it on the shelf next to The Godfather and The Professional; watch it twice a year for the rest of your life.
 I would probably enjoy this movie if I could have heard it. January 18, 2010
Jacob Brown (St. Louis, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had never seen Heat until it came out on Blu ray. When it came out I just bought it because I figured I had to like this movie. Unfortunately I have still never gotten he chance to really enjoy this movie. They screwed up the audio on this Blu ray disk something terrible. I mean, for a large portion of this film, I could barely hear what the characters were saying. Let me just say that i have a pioneer elite receiver with def tech mythos speakers, so i have a system that can rock the room. At times I had it turned up all the way to try to understand and then i would get killed by the music or an action scene of course. I read all of the review sites and they are all rating the audio as near perfect and I cant believe they are watching the same disc. I even went to blockbuster and rented it, and I had the same problem. I also Put it into a different blu ray player and no luck. They just did an awful job with the audio on this blu ray. Also, I am 22 years old and have passed every hearing check with flying colors, just in case you thought I was an old fart with terrible hearing.
Perhaps I will rent the DVD to see if the audio is better so I can at least see if I enjoy the movie. I hope so. Id rather have have the video quality so that i can hear.
Great movie, got here quickly January 7, 2010
Jonathan R. Lotz (Tucson, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Prompt service, great movie, perfect quality. What more could you ask from a movie that originally came out on VHS?
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