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4.4
Michael Manns writing and direction elevate this material. Its not just an action picture.
Rogerebert
3.8
McCauley and Hanna meet only twice (a disappointment, for those looking forward to a Pacino De Niro face off).Instead, the film fills its nearly three ..
Ny Daily News
4.0
The scariest thing about the film is that there are so many soulless men like these two out there in the streets pursuing their obsessions without reg ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
Spinottis fine camerawork captures all the frenzied action with flare.The ensemble cast immeasurably aids the terrific star performances, while Manns ..
Sover
3.8
Picture and sound are very good with Manns trademark neon visuals coming through nicely.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
Theres nothing really new in this lengthy 1995 thriller by writer director Michael Mann about cops (Al Pacino and others) and robbers (Robert De Niro ..
Chicago Reader
4.4
Also, the characters are intelligent adults and they are articulate, which puts them light years ahead of most characters in this genre.This film rate ..
Lariat
4.0
Its also a pity that after so much brilliance Mann should succumb to a derivative ending an airport chase, a la The Killing and Bullitt, and a tidy if ..
Radio Times
3.8
Ant Man and the Wasp Like its predecessor Ant Man (2015), Ant Man and the Wasp benefits substantially from its relatively low stakes.
Q Network
3.2
Heat is an epic that feels like a stunt.Manns action scenes arent like those in other underworld thrillers.
Ew
5.0
Heat proves one thing absolute.If you put great actors in a great script with a great visionary director in control, then you get a great movie.
Empire
2.0
A criminal is intelligent, thoughtful, and meticulous in his planning, but the same guy also is an unhesitatingly brutal killer.
Common Sense Media
2.5
The filmmakers may find that they have overrated the thrill of that promise.
Sf Gate
3.8
This is the first time De Niro and Pacino have acted together, and each gives a strong, watertight performance.
Sf Gate
4.0
Writer director Michael Mann has bigger ideas, and he does them justice.
Bbc
5.0
Life doesnt always work that way, and often those life changing events occur with barely perceptible slowness, but drama and poetry are intended to br ..
Slant Magazine
5.0
When Pacino meets De Niro for the first time in a diner, the confrontation is electric.It marks the first time the actors have performed together, and ..
Washington Post
5.0
The only genuine connection in the film is between menand between Hanna and McCauley in particular.As impressive and viscerally stirring as Manns majo ..
Washington Post
4.4
Those expecting a straight action/horror vehicle (which the ads are making it out to be) will be disappointed.
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
And, for all its concern with emotions and psychology, the film lacks humanity.
Bullz-Eye
5.0
Verdict: Following the buddy cop handbook to the letter, The Heat is derivative stuff, but McCarthy gives it the kick it needs to keep rolling along.
Total Film
2.5
Its not much, but its all this movie really has to offer.Theres action here, but its nothing special, and the long stretches of banal dialogue and for ..
ReelViews
5.0
Heat may not be terribly deep, but it takes genre filmmaking seriously.
Groucho Reviews
3.1
As a result, there is a really good two hour movie struggling to get out of this pretty good three hour movie.
Deseret News
5.0
Its the anxiety of the worst always coming home to roost despite your best efforts to stop it.
The Filmy Ap
3.8
Michael Mann works well with actors, but the film in general could have been tighter. It clocks at almost 3 hours, even though its not an epic.
Montreal Film Journal
4.0
This may be the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year.
News Week
4.0
Yet its narrative pull, as unrelenting as a riptide, creates more than enough tension to compensate.
La Times
4.4
When Pacinos loud, bruised cop and De Niros canny crook stare at each other, you can read something spent and weary in their eyes and voices. The heat ..
Articles Chicago Tribune
3.8
Michael Manns beautifully hard edged direction not unlike a sports car that masks its brawn underneath a beautifully elegant exterior was never more m ..
Nicks Chager
5.0
Heat is magnificent, powerful and for the last decade my unquestionably favourite film.
Graffiti With Punctuation
4.0
There isnt much going on at this party other than what the actors bring to it. But fortunately, Mann has invited some exceptional ones.
Articles Orlando Sentinel
4.4
This is glandular, not intellectual, movie making but its at the highest end of technical expressiveness.
Articles Baltimore Sun
3.5
Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a brilliant hood, a man consumed with plotting and executing daring big money heists.
Articles Sun Sentinel
3.8
Unfortunately, the film lapses into predictability just at the point where an injection of thriller like originality would be welcome.
Paloalto Online
4.4
In a sense, all the actions are as easy to predict as the built in limitations of pieces on a chess board, yet the combinations of those movements all ..
Seattle Times
4.0
NEIL MCCAULEY (ROBERT DE Niro) is an orderly and calculating man.
Content Time
4.5
McCauly is the cold loner who lives by one supreme principle: Do not become attached to something you cant walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot ..
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