Great Film: Heat
Masterful on all counts
For some reason I cannot stop thinking about this film lately.
You know that feeling of having seen it about 3 or 4 times in the last
12 months is not enough? That's what I feel at the moment.
I rate it as Mann's best. It's his most kinetic,vibrant(for a film
mostly shot in steely blue),agonising,stirring,brash,violent and
brilliance in such a simple story.
What games did you play as a young kid? Cops and robbers.Good guy.Bad
guy.
We all know De Niro and Pacino could have been either main part,but can
you imagine it any other way round. Pacino doing ice cool calm? De Niro
the manic outbursts,arms flailing? It wouldn't work. We know these men
now.We know neither will stop at what they do.And yet there is no way
either would stop the other.Unless they had too. Which leads us too the
characters. All of them.
This is an extended family where you feel you know all of them without
knowing anything at all. The cops are similar to the robbers and
vice-versa. Perhaps Mann is telling us were all the same.Except in what
we do.Every speaking part holds substance in this movie, and the
support cast is astonishing when you actually read the caliber of who
appeared in this film.Tom Sizmore, Val Kilmer,Ashley Judd,Ted
Levine,Wes Studi,Hank Azaria,William Fitchner,Henry Rollins,Dennis
Haysbert,Tom Noonan. And Natalie Portman, for chrissake! Try getting
that cast again.
A real 10/10 film. And that Moby song at the end(God moving over the
face of waters) gets me every time.
Cast
- Charlene Shiherlis played by Ashley Judd
- Sergeant Drucker played by Mykelti Williamson
- Chris Shiherlis played by Val Kilmer
- Nate played by Jon Voight
- Lt. Vincent Hanna played by Al Pacino
- Roger Van Zant played by William Fichtner
- Bosko played by Ted Levine
