Day 350: Heat

Directed By- Michael Mann

Written By- Michael Mann

Starring- Robery De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Ted Levine, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight, Natalie Portman, Hank Azaria, Tom Sizemore, Danny Trejo, William Fichnter, Jeremy Piven. Wes Studi,

Run Time- 2 hr. 46 min.

Critics Review- "Michael Mann and a superlative cast have taken a classic heist movie rife with familiar genre elements and turned it into a sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving."- Kenneth Turan "Los Angeles Times" 

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 86% [CERTIFIED FRESH] Audience-92%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars

My Review-

After prolonging from watching this movie and having finally watch the whole thing, I rather liked it, it was just too damn long. This movie clocks in just a few minutes short of 3 hours, when I think it could have been at least 20-30 minutes shorter and it still would have been a great movie. Aside from that I liked the movie, and this the first time I have seen De Niro and Pacino in the same film acting together from across a diner table and it was pretty damn awesome to see these two awesome actors acting off of each other, seems like they were trying to out do one another but it was tie in my opinion. It was Pacino who at times does not hasn't sold me on a movie lately since he has been doing horrible ones that made this movie for me as the cop chasing De Niro, he owned all of his scenes expect when he was on screen with De Niro, like I said before that may have been a tie. One of the highlights of the movie was the shootout that took place in the middle of the film, which as to be the best one I have seen in a long time, and it was awesome, loud, fast and just awesome. When it came to the different story lines for most of the characters I thought they could have gone into De Niro's a little more since it was shown like 2 or 3 times throughout the film. I also liked how each character got the right amount of screen time if they were the main part of the movie, and others if they were not really essential to the story got the right amount as well. One thing I was really surprised at about this movie was that Natalie Portman was in the film, I think this was her second movie after The Professional and for only being in two movies at the time she had done a really good job of picking what she wanted to do. Other than the movie being way to long I enjoyed it and would watch it over again, if I had the time and patience. This is also possibly one of the best Michael Mann films I have seen next to Miami Vice and that is one of my favorite films from him. I love films like this especially if its in Los Angeles where it can be seen from all sides of the city, and I need to watch more movies where Los Angeles is shown more and more.