170 mins |
Rated
R16 (Contains Violence and Offensive Language)
This is essential cinema at the Lumiere...This urban western fits perfectly into the melancholic, even elegiac, mood of the great works that have built the fame of the director of the disenchanted Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. And like a reinterpretation amended at the time of nineties, Michael Mann introduced into an architectonic Los Angeles cowboys - Neil McCauley and his gang of bank robbers, and sheriffs - Vincent Hannah, an inspector inhabited by a sixth sense but overtaken by the irreversible movements of modern evolution....
"The loneliness of modern existence.
Mann evokes that aching feeling visually: Figures framed against cold, hard glass and sharp angles, or overlooking an endless, glittering cityscape – LA as it might have been painted by Edward Hopper...." NPR
"Michael Mann's masterpiece is a three-hour crime epic, a love/hate letter the city of Los Angeles, a scathing Balzacian view of a society corrupt from top to bottom, and a vision of the universe as a space contested over by the fractious armies of crime and the law. Opening with a spectacular armoured-car robbery that degenerates into mass murder, Heat follows the consequences of the raid, the plans for its successor, the response of the police, led by detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and the consequences of it all for wives, families, girlfriends and innocent bystanders...." The Guardian
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This is essential cinema at the Lumiere...This urban western fits perfectly into the melancholic, even elegiac, mood of the great works that have built the fame of the director of the disenchanted Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. And like a reinterpretation amended at the time of nineties, Michael Mann introduced into an architectonic Los Angeles cowboys - Neil McCauley and his gang of bank robbers, and sheriffs - Vincent Hannah, an inspector inhabited by a sixth sense but overtaken by the irreversible movements of modern evolution....
"The loneliness of modern existence.
Mann evokes that aching feeling visually: Figures framed against cold, hard glass and sharp angles, or overlooking an endless, glittering cityscape – LA as it might have been painted by Edward Hopper...." NPR
"Michael Mann's masterpiece is a three-hour crime epic, a love/hate letter the city of Los Angeles, a scathing Balzacian view of a society corrupt from top to bottom, and a vision of the universe as a space contested over by the fractious armies of crime and the law. Opening with a spectacular armoured-car robbery that degenerates into mass murder, Heat follows the consequences of the raid, the plans for its successor, the response of the police, led by detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and the consequences of it all for wives, families, girlfriends and innocent bystanders...." The Guardian