Heat (DVD)

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Heat (DVD)

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Product Description

An L.A. patrolman (Al Pacino) becomes fixated on a lethal burglar (Robert Dinero) and his organisation ( Val Kilmer & Jon Voight) who are holding Los Angeles to a cleaners. This film includes one of a many fantastic fire outs in film story as Dinero and Kilmer slice by downtown Los Angeles with both guns blazing.

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #3110 in DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
Model: 116316
Released on: 2007-05-15
Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Original language: English
Subtitled in: English, French
Dubbed in: French
Number of discs: 1
Dimensions: .20 pounds
Running time: 170 minutes

Features

An L.A. patrolman (Al Pacino) becomes fixated on a lethal burglar (Robert Dinero) and his organisation ( Val Kilmer & Jon Voight) who are holding Los Angeles to a cleaners. This film includes one of a many fantastic fire outs in film story as Dinero and Kilmer slice by downtown Los Angeles with both guns blazing. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 085391163169

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Having grown his ability as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed each aspect of that poise in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, that also noted a initial onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The dual good actors had played father and son in a apart time durations of The Godfather, Part II, though this was a initial film in that a span seemed together, and nonetheless their usually stage together is brief, it's a riveting block of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master burglar with rarely learned partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws a courtesy of Pacino, personification a seasoned Los Angeles investigator whose review reveals that patrolman and rapist lead identical lives. Both are so clinging to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a mother (Diane Venora) who cheats to equivocate a existence of their barren marriage; De Niro pays a cost for a life with no outward connections; and Kilmer's mother (Ashley Judd) has all though given adult wish that her father will quit his rapist career. These are group obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's required to move a other down. Mann's shining screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with interesting insight, and a tragedy mounts with some of a many riveting movement sequences ever filmed--most quite a illumination encircle that turns downtown Los Angeles into a practical fight section of involuntary gunfire. At scarcely 3 hours, a film qualifies as a kind of insinuate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently watchful for some-more action, though it's all partial of Mann's constrained strategy. Heat is a loyal rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of heated fad and thespian depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a primary showcase for their finely matched talents. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker

Incredibly cold characters lift off aroused nonetheless scrupulous crimes in a heart of a supermodern American city: yes, it's a Michael Mann film. The relocating suggestion behind "Miami Vice" has incited his courtesy to Los Angeles, where an anguished patrolman (Al Pacino) goes head-to-head with a uneasy knave (Robert De Niro). The film looks happiest during night, though a sly beauty of a camera's moves is tricked by a predicting script; Diane Venora, as a detective's wife, has some quite hideous lines to deliver. The film, that runs on and on for scarcely 3 hours, yearns to be most some-more than a thriller-it wants to diagnose a illness of men's souls and communicate a nobleness of their pain. The irony is that as a thriller it works only fine; a set pieces, including an unstoppable gun conflict outward a bank, are adrenaline dreams. The taciturn De Niro and a braying Pacino share a flawless stage over a crater of coffee, though a genuine honors go to Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd as a warring, amatory couple. Kilmer can blow we away, with or but a gun. -Anthony Lane
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