The Natalie Portman scene is so good because like George said literally *everyone* including the audience forgot about her.

The bank shootout is considered one of the most realistic Hollywood movie gunfights in cinema history.

The eerie thing about the shootout in Heat was that two years later we get a similar event happen in real-life during the 1997 North Hollywood shootout between two heavily armed bank robbers and dozens of LAPD officers.

The fact that they didn't show her daughter anymore and that the film seemed to have forgotten about her represents exactly her feeling that everybody ignored her and forgot about her.

36:56 I think you missed that DeNiro broke his credo --- he couldn't walk away from Waingro. And that was his downfall.

This and "Ronin" (1998) are two great action movies but not just for the action, but because of the great characters in it. In "Ronin", like in "Heat", also *everybody* is in the cast.

Another Michael Mann masterpiece that doesn't get a lot of attention: The Insider. Russel Crowe is a tobacco scientist and Al Pacino a 60-minutes TV Show producer. On the surface the story doesn't sound terribly exciting, but Mann dials the tension up to 11. I highly recommend.

If you're into reading, Michael Mann recently published Heat 2 book which covers Hannah's and McCauley's crew members fate from 1988 till 2000. Very good novel!

Heat is one perfect standoff/duel film. It's a battle of minds as well as one of firepower. Al Pacino and Robert De Niro at their best. The diner scene between the two legends was unrehearsed. They just showed up and shot it in the most natural simple way possible. Also, the reason that shootout sounds so good is because they used the actual sounds recorded during the scenes, rather than add them later in post-production like every other film. It makes it crazy authentic and the choice to cut the music the moment that the shooting starts, really focuses your attention on the sound of the gun fire, how it echoes between the buildings and the bullet impacts. These directorial decisions by Michael Mann are why this scene is considered the gold standard of film shootouts.

I love this movie. On my first viewing, I was just going in for the Pacino/DeNiro crossover and was surprised by how dense it was. On a second viewing, I appreciated all the supporting characters and subplots. On my third viewing was when I realized "HEAT is every bit as equally great of a crime drama as THE GODFATHER."

"This movie was awesome." Exactly what I felt when it came out. I was 20. The shootout scene is still the best piece of realistic action I've ever seen.

Funnily, "Oh no, he eats sandwiches weird!" describes Seinfeld better than "A show about nothing."

I remember watching in the theater and viewers were just stunned how great this movie was. Masterpiece!

There is another layer/connection between De Niro and Pacino. Both of their characters were Marines. They were brothers in that way. That's another reason why holding his hand while he died was important.

One of the greatest action crime movies ever made! The shootout during the bank heist is one of the most realistic shootouts in film history!

What I truly loved about McCauley walking away from Edie was that it inverted the whole 30-seconds idea. If he had approached her, she would have ended up an accomplice. He didn't walk away to save himself. He walked away to save her.

Hugh, the person that ratted them out, was played by Henry Rollins who was a prolific punk/rock singer from the 80s to late 2000s. His casting required specific approval from Al Pacino.

Re: rooting for Neil and his crew: There's a quote that I want to attribute to Ebert, but I cannot find the quote. In any case, it was something to the effect that one of the most interesting things a character can be is good at their job. When Danny Trejo was younger, he fell into the criminal lifestyle and was a bank robber himself, and even went to prison. A few years later, after he'd turned his life around, he was working as a drug counselor when he was invited on the set of Runaway Train, where someone he was counseling was working and was concerned about possibly relapsing. He ended up getting cast as an extra, and mostly played little bit parts as heavies and muscle through to 1995, when he had a great part in Robert Rodriguez's Desperado and also this movie. He was hired as a robbery consultant, but Mann remembered him from a movie from the 1980s and gave him the part of the last member of the team. That's probably why the character is named after him -- it was sort of a chance decision and the authenticity of the robbery scenes are because of Danny, and Eddie Bunker (who had a role as the last Reservoir Dog in that movie), so it's like a little tribute to him, and of course Mann probably isn't attached to whatever name was in the script, which is unimportant. Trejo said years later, when De Niro appeared in the Machete movie, De Niro said, "Danny! It's your starring role, man! I knew you were going to make it when we were doing Heat. You had it!" and Trejo replied, "Can I get you some coffee, Mr. De Niro?" What's especially crazy to me about the diner scene is that Mann resists a two-shot that contains both of them in the same frame, from the side of the table. The only frame of the movie with both of them is from inside Neil's car looking at Vincent out the window, and Neil is out of focus. I get why Diane Venora's character is viewed as unsympathetic, but I think you both underestimate the degree to which he *is* promising something he fails to deliver. He's right that it may not be a good idea to share what he sees every day, but her complaint is that he is not *present* even when he's with her; he's thinking about the job and catching his next target. A good example is when he comes home and learns that she's going out. He considers doing the dishes for about five seconds, which is already less useful than having a conversation with her about the fact that she's going out but would at least be a normal thing for a husband to do, but instead decides to go check up on what Neil's doing, leading to the diner conversation. I also don't think what Lauren (Natalie Portman) does at the end is motivated by her mother, it's more the callous absence of her dad. I think she likes and respects Vincent (as they say, she chooses him), but her actual father is clearly a huge emotional burden for her.

The Michael Mann film I'd love you both to react to is his third, "Manhunter" from 1986. The first movie to feature Hannible Lecter, or as he's referred to in this film, Lecktor, played by Brian Cox. I'd venture to bet you'd both like it more than 'The Silence of the Lambs".

THIEF is a great Michael Man movie. A great companion piece with Heat. These movies exist in the same universe. When DeNiro says a guy told him he shouldn't have anything in his life he cant walk away from in 30 secons, the guy is the main character in THEIF.

This is a perfect example of how actors can elevate a script. Heat is a remake of a tv movie also by Michael Mann called LA Takedown. The dibner scene is nore or less lifted directly but the addition of Pacino and De Niro is truly magical.

Ooh. This is a good one. The action scenes are fraught with tension and just seem super long but in a good way, following the action where others would cut away. Also, the scenes where Pacino and Deniro just play verbal cat and mouse are still chilling. Two masters at work.

What I love about this movie is how grand and operatic it feels, like a legend about a historic clash between mighty ancient world kings or something, and yet everything about it comes across as so *real,* and plausible and detailed and granular and exhaustively researched and grounded.

One of my top 3 favorite movies of all time, AND we got a pretty solid Simone "woo" at the end.Edit: 9:17 - Simone is so talented, she can speak without moving her mouth. Impressive.

Among the many great things about "Heat", it was the first time DeNiro and Pacino worked together on screen. 🥰

Bit of trivia, it was EXACTLY 30 seconds from the time McCaully sees Hannah coming for him that he turns his back on Eady. Count it out for yourself!

The red-head cop with mustache, on Pacino's, team is Ted Levine, the same actor that plays Wild Bill (the serial killer) in Silence of The Lambs. He's such a good actor that it's almost impossible to believe that it's the same guy.

This was over 20 years in the making! The way Val reloads his weapon is apparently shown to military. Score is amazing with ending song by Moby God Moving Over the Face of Waters. Just epic. A masterpiece

You should watch The Last of the Mohicans! Another great film directed by Michael Mann. Starring the incomparable Daniel Day-Lewis.

After Godfather 1 & 2, the best Movie ever made. Pacino & deNiro having Coffee is pure Movie-Magic. No Explosions, no CGI-BS, just the two best Actors ever having a great Dialogue.

This is a story I like to tell whenever talking about this movie. I first saw Heat at Broadacres Cinema in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1995. It was a packed house, and for 170 minutes, everyone of us was riveted. Our eyes were glued to the screen. The bank robbery, in particular, was both amazing and scary as hell. The sounds were coming from all around, you felt like you were right in the middle of it, and you wanted it to stop. At the end, when Hanna held McCauley's hand, people started to get up. They weren’t leaving or getting ready to leave. After a few seconds, it became obvious that we were all standing up and SALUTING the movie. By the time the movie cut to black, everyone in the theater was standing. That had never happened before in a movie I'd gone to, and it hasn't happened since (though a similar thing happened a few weeks ago when I went to see Oppenheimer). Afterward, we were all out in the lobby. Everyone was giddy, dizzy, eyes bugging out, breathless. We were all talking at once. We couldn't believe what we'd just seen, and everyone agreed we'd just seen a masterpiece.

I never paid attention to cinematography before this movie. It blew my little teenage mind. And seeing Wes Studi in a role that wasn’t milking his heritage- Two thumbs WAY up.

Saw this in theaters back in '95 (TWICE). The shootout scene with surround sound is unmatched. And the diner scene with Pacino and DeNiro is the best showdown scene in cinema... and it didn't involve shooting or throwing hands; just a couple of guys having a chill conversation over coffee.

30:21 She does NOT look like Mia Malkova. 34:38 Note how the light from the tunnel represents Neil being "home free", but then it goes dark again and he changes his mind. 40:33 The purpose of that last Natalie Portman scene is to emphasize Vincent's decision to stop chasing after Neil. If there was still a chance to catch the latter, the former wouldn't have gone home to discover her still alive in the tub. Basically, these men would've had better lives at home if they weren't so passionate about their jobs. This film famously inspired Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight in the same way that David Fincher's Se7en (also from 1995) inspired Matt Reeves' The Batman.

The first heist was inspiration for a heist mission in gta 5

Props for the shout-out to Mia Malkova by George. She's a great... actress too.

I absolutely love the look of this film. Michael Mann became an early adopter of digital cameras not too long after this, but I think those lost a bit of the film magic this movie had with it's lovely wide lenses and very natural camera movements. Great locations too, filmed with the very unique eye Mann seems to have. You could see it back in the 80's when he was in charge of Miami Vice on tv.

One of my all-time favorites. The shootout on the street was incredible in the theater.

I saw this movie in London when it first came out. That shootout scene in cinema Dolby was so visceral and intense that the whole cinema was left in stunned silence. Watching that scene with headphones and on a smaller screen just doesn’t do it Justice. Eitherway, another great review by my favorite two 😘

Based on events from the 1960s. And originally written in the 1970s. The guy playing Wayne Groh went to jail, and everyone there called him Wayne Groh. She's got a great ass was an adlib.

I literally had nothing better to do this moment than to relive Heat with you, thank you!

In 1989 Michael Mann directed LA Takedown which was originally meant to be a pilot for a new television series that never happened. LA Takedown ended up been a prototype for Heat it's one of the few times a director has had the chance to direct a movie twice based on the same source material. Heat 2 is also in Pre-Production according to IMDb.

Crazy detail: the sounds of gunfire during the 'Big Bank Shootout' were recorded 'live' and not dubbed in after the fact. The blank-firing guns they used are almost as loud as real ammo, so the sound-design team decided to stick with the natural sound. The 'open expanse echos' could never have been duplicated in a studio. Did you hydrate today?

Thanks for this one, Cinemommy! You too Simone.

The change in Al Pacino's eyes when he pushes the bathroom door demands real talent.

One of my favorite movies of all time. Every character has a deep and fleshed out story.

The restaurant manager is an actor named Bud Cort and was in a movie called Harold and Maude, a film that’s criminally ignored and unreacted to.

The Bank-Heist shoot-out was so beyond anything ever put to film back then it set a new standard for realistic action movies. It is still SO FRIGGIN GOOD all these years later. The sound design alone... OMG.

Saw this in the theater when I was 15. Great movie!

We watched the bank heist scene in the classroom during basic training to show the proper way to move and fire during close quarter fights. It was the one lesson that didn't make me fall asleep due to the ear splitting sound. I'm sure they used to crank the heat up in there so we'd fall asleep and they could give us a bollocking and a load of press-ups.

The scene with the two having coffee together is one of the greatest ever!

Al Pacino revealed recently that he played his character as a secret cokehead lol which explains some of the more manic scenes.

Fun fact: the scene where DeNiro and Pacino meet and they say to each other that they will not hesitate to shoot each other was actually said by the real cop and criminal this story is loosely based on. Chuck Adamson, the cop was a consultant on this film and they used his story in the movie.

Best gunfire sound effects in movie history 👌🏻

The ending is amazing. DeNiro and Pacino trying to kill each other but they held each other's hands because out of all the characters in the movie they're the only ones that understood each other.

George name dropping a Mia Malkova made my day

I was just wondering why so few people have reacted to this movie. Watched it not too long ago because it was free on KZfaq and I was heavily entertained

Kevin Gage (the actor that played Waingro) did a short stint in prison when a medical marijuana business he had got shutdown on a permit technicality. But he was apparently a model prisoner, and was unanimously called "Waingro" by both inmates and guards!

This is actually based on a true story that happened in Chicago. The detective that AL PACINO portrayed worked on the film.

The hand-holding at the end is like two of the best sports competitors, one emeerging as the victor, complimenting each other like "Good game, good game." Additionally, the cat-and-mouse pursuit was shot in a way that either one of them could've won, and it still would've been a satisfying conclusion.

Obviously the bank robbery is the action climax of the movie, but the psychological climax is when DeNiro and Pacino have the conversation. There's no pretense or dissembling on either side, they're being brutally honest with each other and you sense the grudging respect they have for one another.

One of the best action movies ever made as you pointed out realistic explosions without stupid fire balls and as a veteran I loved the shootout scene if you watch every member of the crew is in sync practicing strict fire discipline and covering each other while moving or reloading this helps show just how professional they are and is a level of detail even war movies rarely get right.

The music during the helicopter scene and Pacino night driving is an epic scene all by itself. The name of the song is New Dawn Fades. First done by the Joy Division. Then this version by Moby.

What a movie! I saw it when it first came out, and though I was 15, I was a little young (or too unsophisticated a movie watcher at that point) to truly appreciate it. A big deal was made of it being the first time Pacino and De Niro were sharing the screen and I wanted to be a part of movie history and see it at the cinema, and then they share like 1 1/2 scenes together and that’s it?! I didn’t know what all the fuss was about! And the movie has no villain, no clear morals… the explosions weren’t big fireballs and there was no cool slow-mo or snarky one-liners. I just wasn’t ready. But then I rewatched it a few years ago and was completely blown away! All the stuff I missed when I was a kid landed full force and I was hooked. Remarkable piece of cinema, and I knew that George and Simone, or Simone and George as they are now, would dig it! Fun fact: the diner scene between DeNiro and Pacino was filmed with two cameras, one on each actor, so that the reactions we see were the genuine reactions to each others’ performance and matched each other take to take. The majority of the shots used came from the 11th take. Masterclass of acting. No histrionics, no posturing, no chewing the scenery, just two of the best screen actors in history at the top of their games.

I loved that movie when it came out, but it still has grown on me even more since then. It really became a timeless classic. Thanks Cinemone & George for another great reaction. ;)

This is the kind of movie they just don't make anymore. It's a measure of how cinema has evolved that today, this would be made as an 8 episode series on Netflix or HBO

26:21 This shootout manages to make the sound of dead silence more deafening than the sound of all those rounds being fired.

Lately it seems like every few days you appear in my feed and I audibly cry out "YES" because you've chosen another absolute top-tier film. Long may it continue.

Michael Mann at the height of his powers. You should also watch "The Last of the Mohicans" "Miami Vice" 2006 and Thief all super solid Mann films

There are so many great stories about this movie. The end at the airport reminds me of the end of Bullit.

The best piece of acting Tom Sizemore has ever done with just a look at the diner customer. Not many people can look so menacing without needing to get up

22:24 - this is the first scene I've ever seen where the enemies sit down, speak civilly and show each other respect ❤

They should watch Dog Day Afternoon, which also has Al Pacino in it. Probably one of the best movie bank heist fail.

The shootout scene was by far my favorite part. This movie is so badass with a star studded cast

Michael Mann is the most underrated film director of all time. Heat, as well as Thief, Collatoral and Manhunter are all brilliant action films with brains.

Speaking about symbolism, I like the moment beginning @34:42 how there's the smooth gentle light around the Eady's face, but then as the Neil's decision "to take care of something" grows in him, this light turns into darkness.

Additionally to this already great cast, any film that has Buffalo Bill AND Francis Dolarhyde is epic.

I can't remember if it was just a choice of Pacino's or if it was cut from the film/script, but Pacino played Vincent as a cocaine user, which explains his bombastic nature.

Deniro said the diner scene was one of his favorite shots he has ever done in his career

The sound during the firefight was amazing. Best I've ever heard in a movie. And most accurate.

I’d forgotten that Wes Studi had a role in this film. That leads me to another recommendation to watch The Last of the Mohicans.

@17:40 I was in law enforcement for 32 years and have always loved this movie but this scene has always really bugged me. With Kilmer drilling the safe and the alarm being bypassed it would be simple to prove the intent to steal what was in the safe without them having to actually walk out with the loot. Any sentencing difference (if any) would be negligible. And if they were armed there would be additional enhancements.

Robert DeNero is playing Harold Shipman in a new movie, it’s called The old dear hunter

SAS legend Andy McNab choreographed all the explosions and shoot outs that is why they are so realistic

I like the new George better. Sorry old George.

I new going into the Dark Knight movie it was going to be Amazing because the bank robbery at the beginning of the film reminded me of Heat.

Michael Mann is one of the best film directors when it comes to cops-and-robber movies and TV shows. He seems to grasp the drama of cops and robbers in a way most directors don't. the scene with Deniro and Pacino is a masterclass of acting and writing to create an amazing scene.

"Told you I'm never going back" one of the hardest lines in cinema. Both kept their word at the end too. (they didn't keep it in the edit tho)

one of the greatest movies ever made.

Something that isn't shown in the movie but it's confirmed. Al Pacino 's character is a cokehead, that's why he acts like that

My all time favorite Robert De Niro scene is in this movie and only a brief few moments. Neil driving through the tunnel home free, his face smiling in the light and then the subtle tortured change as he just can't let go of taking revenge on Waingro. #1 on my personal top ten best movies ever.

The thing I love the most about this movie is how you don't want either side to lose. You care about all of them. My all time favorite movie!

I never would have mentally connected Amy Brenneman and Mia Malkova, but now I can't unsee it. Thanks George.

I love this movie! There's a theory that Tom Cruise in Collateral and Robert de Niro in Heat are brothers. They kinda look alike and dress similarly. Also, Collateral starts in the airport and ends on the train. Heat starts on the train and ends in the airport.

I love when a bad guy and good guy no matter what outcome respect each other like the ending of 3:10 to Yuma

The best writing leaves you with an understood respect for both protagonist and antagonist, the VERY best makes you root for both. The hand holding was such a humane touch.

I watched this randomly on Netflix a few months ago and was like "What the hell why is this so good." I had no idea haha +1 for George being cinemommy.

HEAT really is either the best or worst movie to introduce the "CineMommy" card with

This movie -- and the diner scene in particular -- was the first time DeNiro and Pacino ever shared the screen together (they didn't share any scenes in Godfather 2). First time they ever acted opposite each other. You have no idea what the build-up to that was like: two titans finally meeting on screen. And somehow it was better than all expectations.

In case you didnt notice, The Dark Knight from Nolan is basically this movie with two guys in costumes. Ok, it is not an exact copy, lets be clear, TDK is also drawing from the comics (mainly Batman: The Long Halloween and all Frank Miller's work), so there are some clear difference, however the overall plot and narrative structure is pretty much the same down to some beats actually being the same, you can even look on KZfaq for a side to side comparisson and some scene are more than 'inspired', they are copies (or tributes, whatever you want to call it, i dont think copying is a bad thing).