Michael Mann's HEAT

You've gotta take time out to celebrate this 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...

Critic Reviews

"In Heat, all the meticulous authenticity and coolly portrayed characters inherent to a Michael Mann picture fulfill a crime epic of incredible scale and ambition...." Deep Focus

"Twenty-six years after it was released, I'm not sure that Heat has ever been bettered as an action film, or as a crime drama... " Graeme Tuckett -Stuff

"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