Thanks so much I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's such a powerful movie on so many levels but the key for me is that it ends with such a strong emotional punch. Thanks for watching, appreciate the support.
Possibly the best commentary I saw on this platform on possibly the best Hollywood film of the last 25 years. The elegance of this film, the style, perfectly goes hand in hand with the characterisation and story. There isn’t anything in this film that feels short changed or half thought, its close to perfection as I’ve rarely seen in Hollywood film since 95. Absolutely brilliant commentary.👍
Another movie I religiously watched around 12-16 years old. I used to play the shoot out scene after the heist when no one was home on a surround sound system and the sound was so epic it was like a symphony of bullets and chaos. This movie made me love De Niro in a way The Godfather Part II made me love his work. His cool but serious demeanor. A ticking time bomb like he showed in taxi driver. A lot of his performances seem to crescendo beautifully. I think of Al Pacino in a similar light. I think in this film, the goatee and hairstyle for De Niro was his best look . This film is an epic slow burn and this commentary and narration did the film justice. Probably the best breakdown of the film I’ve ever seen, along with your takes on American Psycho, King of New York, THX and others. This has become my new go to channel for film.
Wow, thanks for such a generous comment. I’ve never seen this in the cinema and I’m waiting for a re-release just to experience it on the big screen. The shoot out I’m sure will be epic, but I can’t wait to be absorbed into the visuals and sound as well, I imagine the final scene on the airport runway will also be incredible. Also, that’s a great insight from you about McCauley and Travis Bickle being similar characters. Somehow I never saw that, but DeNiro brings that same intensity albeit in a more channeled and disciplined way.
Excellent review of Mann's Heat. Truly brilliant crime epic, with no extraneous characters and stunning cinematography. De Niro and Pacino would spend the next twenty five years of squandering their combined talents-de Niro leading this charge on mainly crap movies with some occasional excellence off them. Mann would continue his obsession with crime/police (no Miami vice mention? A genuine underated gem).
I think their work in The Irishman was a nice closing of that chapter that lived up to the promise of Heat. This movie gets better with each viewing where it is almost a religious experience watching the level of artistry at play. Thanks for the great comment, and you’re right Miami Vice is always worth a mention I just didn’t find room for it here.
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. Over time, even though there have been many imitators, no crime movie has come close to the quality of Heat.
@@psilva2462 Thanks so much for your support. I’m planning on doing Manhunter early next year. I might be tempted to do Miami Vice as it turns 15 next year. I do have a Patreon and other links to support the channel in the description. Thanks again for following, I’ve got some great videos coming up in the new year and I’m always open to requests so let me know what you’d like to see on the channel. 👍
Great vid. Gave me the feels. You have a deep understanding of the criminal ethos & duality. p.s., I thought this was a Heat tribute video with the duel of the fates music audio. lol
Glad you enjoyed it, it’s a movie I could talk about forever. The dual of the fates video is a great idea, I should have done that. I thought it worked well as a title.
@@MovieBirthdays I'm going to enjoy watching the rest of your videos! Thank you. Did u see it in the cinema? The gun battle was so loud! At the end sequence the theatre was pulsating with the music, so good. I was hoping Neil would get away, but like your video...fate. Sometimes when you walk out of a theatre, it's like you're traveling between worlds.
@@handsolo1076 Not seen it on the cinema unfortunately but waiting for a re-release, I’m sure the sound is incredible. Let me know what you think of my other videos. Thanks for the sub and welcome to the channel.
Interesting interpretation. Pretty deep for a movie that's a basic cops & robbers plot. Michael Mann likes to build characters, even if they don't really exist. History has very few bad guys that actually have motives deeper than pure greed. The Chicago and New York mobs between 1920 and 1970 had maybe half a dozen that wanted more (fame & power) than money. Folklore tends to add more than there is. Martin Scorsese often added a human side that made for good films. Mann does the same thing with similar success. Even so, the reality is, very few villans and good guys are as dynamic as you suggests. There were codes within large organizations during the 1930s up to the early 70s. But a small time bank heist gang, there really isn't according to the FBI. With the fall of big time revenues from casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, integrated organized crime has gone back into the shadows since the late 90s sticking to corruption and the drug trade. Multi-million dollar heists have been pulled off over the decades, but with very few involving shoot outs (none that killed anybody). The Dunbar Armored Truck facility robbery in '97, two security guards were assaulted and tied up. Nobody was killed or shot at during the $19M heist and almost got away with it when one of the team gave a bundle of cash to a friend with the original note binders! Yeah, no code or brains. Valerio Viccei was a serial bank robber and pulled off a $100 million heist and still wound up behind bars after attempting to ship a Ferrari to England. Like, seriously? Professionals? These guys aren't geniuses or dynamic with some philosophical demons rattling around in their brains. Just my two cents; Heat was a good movie with a great cast. But it isn't The Untouchables or Goodfellas let alone the Godfather. In my opinion, Mann's best film so far, is The Insider, not only because it is a non-fiction story, but the depth each character, is based on real people that he fully explored. He didn't need to manufacture anything.
I guess I was looking at the movie from an audiences perspective. Why is it that we enjoy watching movies about criminals and why do certain crime movies endure more than others, but also why is it that people would idolise and hero worship certain criminals. I suppose as viewers we project our own myths and romanticism around the idea of crime being a way out or exciting - until the law catches up of course. It’s fair to say that Michael Mann has always had a fascination with crime and added a sense of glamour and nobility to the code of the criminal, whether they exist or not. He tries to find the people beneath the roles. The Insider, which I agree is probably his best, was not just about whistleblowing but the human cost. Heat also has this and we see the cost of crime on all involved. Thanks for your comment it was really informative and I’m glad you got something out of the video. 👍
I think there are a few elements in HEAT that are generally over looked. Mann likes to refine previous cinema with his own interpretation. The ending of HEAT at the airport mirrors the ending of the 1968 Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, where the use of darkness, lighting, and sound of a active runway at night enhance the scene. I would also go as far to say that the relationship between AL Pacino and Diane Venora mirrors the one you see between Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset. Also at the completion of Bullitt, you see that McQueen gets his guy, but is also left with the emptiness you see in Pacino when he gets De Niro. Mann also used inspiration from Alex Colville’s 1967 painting “Pacific” when De Niro stares out into the ocean, and you see a similar scene again in the movie, Miami Vice. We also see a rougher version of De Niro's character type in Thief with James Cann when he's talking to Tuesday Weld in the diner. Building on Mann's experience with Thief, Crime Story, and Miami Vice, we see his, "Rough draft" of HEAT in the 1989 TV movie, LA Takedown. It's very interesting to see how his work progressed into (IMO) his masterpiece with HEAT. Great channel and excellent insight! Grateful to have found the channel and look forward to see what future movies you review.
Thanks Josh, those are some great insights and connections to Michael Mann’s work especially the Bullit references that completely passed me by. Glad you like the channel, I have a new video every week so be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Feel free to share your thoughts on my other videos, would love to hear some more insights. 👍
It should've been one of the top 5 best picture Oscar contenders in 1996. It was criminally OVERLOOKED by the academy..pun very much intended. It should've been Heat, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Nixon & Toy Story (the more deservingly recognized family oriented movie, that year, than Babe).
Great film. Great job. Thanks for correctly entirely ignoring the wives and girlfriends subplots, which were the only flaws in this (just too much time with them). Diane Venora is good. Ashley Judd is insufferable. Another great film that was, for me, just about ruined by way too much damn time with the girlfriend, the dreadful Penelope Ann Miller, was Carlito's Way.
A marvelous and moving commentary. Excellent work.
Thanks so much I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's such a powerful movie on so many levels but the key for me is that it ends with such a strong emotional punch. Thanks for watching, appreciate the support.
Possibly the best commentary I saw on this platform on possibly the best Hollywood film of the last 25 years. The elegance of this film, the style, perfectly goes hand in hand with the characterisation and story. There isn’t anything in this film that feels short changed or half thought, its close to perfection as I’ve rarely seen in Hollywood film since 95. Absolutely brilliant commentary.👍
Thanks so much, I tried to this great movie justice. It’s so epic and there’s so much in there as you said so I’m really glad you enjoyed the video.
The scene in the diner with Pacino and Deniro is priceless. The masters at work. Great job. Loved this film.
A clash of the titans, only matched by their collaboration in The Irishman.
Mann had the great sense, took the gamble, to play it down and not get 'Shakespearian.' Blood simple, to steal a phrase...
@@MovieBirthdays See, I found 'the Irishman' dull and uninspired. Seemed like Scorsese just phones it in, all the cute tricks and cliche...
@@hugh-johnfleming289 Horses for courses I guess, even if you do feel that he’s phoning it in, he’s still better than most on an off day.
Another movie I religiously watched around 12-16 years old. I used to play the shoot out scene after the heist when no one was home on a surround sound system and the sound was so epic it was like a symphony of bullets and chaos. This movie made me love De Niro in a way The Godfather Part II made me love his work. His cool but serious demeanor. A ticking time bomb like he showed in taxi driver. A lot of his performances seem to crescendo beautifully. I think of Al Pacino in a similar light. I think in this film, the goatee and hairstyle for De Niro was his best look . This film is an epic slow burn and this commentary and narration did the film justice.
Probably the best breakdown of the film I’ve ever seen, along with your takes on American Psycho, King of New York, THX and others. This has become my new go to channel for film.
Wow, thanks for such a generous comment. I’ve never seen this in the cinema and I’m waiting for a re-release just to experience it on the big screen. The shoot out I’m sure will be epic, but I can’t wait to be absorbed into the visuals and sound as well, I imagine the final scene on the airport runway will also be incredible.
Also, that’s a great insight from you about McCauley and Travis Bickle being similar characters. Somehow I never saw that, but DeNiro brings that same intensity albeit in a more channeled and disciplined way.
Excellent review of Mann's Heat.
Truly brilliant crime epic, with no extraneous characters and stunning cinematography.
De Niro and Pacino would spend the next twenty five years of squandering their combined talents-de Niro leading this charge on mainly crap movies with some occasional excellence off them.
Mann would continue his obsession with crime/police (no Miami vice mention? A genuine underated gem).
I think their work in The Irishman was a nice closing of that chapter that lived up to the promise of Heat. This movie gets better with each viewing where it is almost a religious experience watching the level of artistry at play.
Thanks for the great comment, and you’re right Miami Vice is always worth a mention I just didn’t find room for it here.
Very sharp and spot on commantary, the entire film had a stylish western feel to it.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the comment.
Stone cold killer commentary dude!
Yo, I'm making my way through.
Your videos are on point.
Real deconstruction of iconic films.
Love it.
Thanks Charley, glad you like the vids. I have new videos every Wednesday so be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Thanks again.
Great commentary, I never tire of this film, it’s sublime. Thanks
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. Over time, even though there have been many imitators, no crime movie has come close to the quality of Heat.
Why don't you have more subscribers? Your commentary is great. I loved HEAT when it came out, you made so much of it clearer to me. Thank you.
Thanks so much, it’s getting there. Share the videos I guess, maybe that will help get more subscribers. I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
A terrific commentary for a terrific movie!
Glad you liked the video and thanks for subscribing.
Fantastic take on a fantastic film, the shootout is one of my favourite scences in film.
Thanks Barry, glad you liked the video. It's a great shootout that takes some beating. I never get tired of this film, it's a masterpiece.
Terrific commentary. I watched Heat the day it was released and I can remember my hair standing on end as the first notes of Kronos Quartet played
I’m yet to see it on the big screen, it’s my top priority this year. Just for the sound and music alone.
Impressive..Most Impressive indeed
Thanks a lot. Appreciate the comment.
Excellent analysis 👍
Thanks, glad you liked it.
How cool. Thank you so much..! 👌🏽
Beautiful review
Thank you.
This is brilliant. You’re painfully underviewed
You’re too kind. Spread the word 👍
@@MovieBirthdays I plan on it. Following you everywhere. Been watching your other ones. Can we get a donation page started. I need the Miami Vice one
@@psilva2462 Thanks so much for your support. I’m planning on doing Manhunter early next year. I might be tempted to do Miami Vice as it turns 15 next year. I do have a Patreon and other links to support the channel in the description. Thanks again for following, I’ve got some great videos coming up in the new year and I’m always open to requests so let me know what you’d like to see on the channel. 👍
@@MovieBirthdays Great. Thanks.
this was so good. Thanks for making it
Glad you enjoyed it. It was my first video so I’m happy it holds up.
@@MovieBirthdays it holds up the same way the movie holds up: forever.
@@mastermindmartialarts thanks, too kind
Wonderfully done. Thank you for your fine work on this.
great great review
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Much better than his original production of this movie - L.A. Takedown
Great vid. Gave me the feels. You have a deep understanding of the criminal ethos & duality. p.s., I thought this was a Heat tribute video with the duel of the fates music audio. lol
Glad you enjoyed it, it’s a movie I could talk about forever. The dual of the fates video is a great idea, I should have done that. I thought it worked well as a title.
@@MovieBirthdays I'm going to enjoy watching the rest of your videos! Thank you. Did u see it in the cinema? The gun battle was so loud! At the end sequence the theatre was pulsating with the music, so good. I was hoping Neil would get away, but like your video...fate. Sometimes when you walk out of a theatre, it's like you're traveling between worlds.
@@handsolo1076 Not seen it on the cinema unfortunately but waiting for a re-release, I’m sure the sound is incredible. Let me know what you think of my other videos. Thanks for the sub and welcome to the channel.
Awesome. 🙌🏽💙
bvankalker thanks so much, glad you liked the video.
Interesting interpretation. Pretty deep for a movie that's a basic cops & robbers plot. Michael Mann likes to build characters, even if they don't really exist.
History has very few bad guys that actually have motives deeper than pure greed. The Chicago and New York mobs between 1920 and 1970 had maybe half a dozen that wanted more (fame & power) than money.
Folklore tends to add more than there is. Martin Scorsese often added a human side that made for good films. Mann does the same thing with similar success.
Even so, the reality is, very few villans and good guys are as dynamic as you suggests.
There were codes within large organizations during the 1930s up to the early 70s. But a small time bank heist gang, there really isn't according to the FBI.
With the fall of big time revenues from casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, integrated organized crime has gone back into the shadows since the late 90s sticking to corruption and the drug trade.
Multi-million dollar heists have been pulled off over the decades, but with very few involving shoot outs (none that killed anybody). The Dunbar Armored Truck facility robbery in '97, two security guards were assaulted and tied up. Nobody was killed or shot at during the $19M heist and almost got away with it when one of the team gave a bundle of cash to a friend with the original note binders! Yeah, no code or brains.
Valerio Viccei was a serial bank robber and pulled off a $100 million heist and still wound up behind bars after attempting to ship a Ferrari to England. Like, seriously? Professionals? These guys aren't geniuses or dynamic with some philosophical demons rattling around in their brains.
Just my two cents; Heat was a good movie with a great cast. But it isn't The Untouchables or Goodfellas let alone the Godfather.
In my opinion, Mann's best film so far, is The Insider, not only because it is a non-fiction story, but the depth each character, is based on real people that he fully explored. He didn't need to manufacture anything.
I guess I was looking at the movie from an audiences perspective. Why is it that we enjoy watching movies about criminals and why do certain crime movies endure more than others, but also why is it that people would idolise and hero worship certain criminals. I suppose as viewers we project our own myths and romanticism around the idea of crime being a way out or exciting - until the law catches up of course.
It’s fair to say that Michael Mann has always had a fascination with crime and added a sense of glamour and nobility to the code of the criminal, whether they exist or not. He tries to find the people beneath the roles. The Insider, which I agree is probably his best, was not just about whistleblowing but the human cost. Heat also has this and we see the cost of crime on all involved.
Thanks for your comment it was really informative and I’m glad you got something out of the video. 👍
I think there are a few elements in HEAT that are generally over looked. Mann likes to refine previous cinema with his own interpretation. The ending of HEAT at the airport mirrors the ending of the 1968 Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, where the use of darkness, lighting, and sound of a active runway at night enhance the scene. I would also go as far to say that the relationship between AL Pacino and Diane Venora mirrors the one you see between Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset. Also at the completion of Bullitt, you see that McQueen gets his guy, but is also left with the emptiness you see in Pacino when he gets De Niro. Mann also used inspiration from Alex Colville’s 1967 painting “Pacific” when De Niro stares out into the ocean, and you see a similar scene again in the movie, Miami Vice. We also see a rougher version of De Niro's character type in Thief with James Cann when he's talking to Tuesday Weld in the diner. Building on Mann's experience with Thief, Crime Story, and Miami Vice, we see his, "Rough draft" of HEAT in the 1989 TV movie, LA Takedown. It's very interesting to see how his work progressed into (IMO) his masterpiece with HEAT.
Great channel and excellent insight! Grateful to have found the channel and look forward to see what future movies you review.
Thanks Josh, those are some great insights and connections to Michael Mann’s work especially the Bullit references that completely passed me by. Glad you like the channel, I have a new video every week so be sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. Feel free to share your thoughts on my other videos, would love to hear some more insights. 👍
It should've been one of the top 5 best picture Oscar contenders in 1996. It was criminally OVERLOOKED by the academy..pun very much intended.
It should've been Heat, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Nixon & Toy Story (the more deservingly recognized family oriented movie, that year, than Babe).
Thankfully, time has proven it's greatness as it seems to have risen above the films you mentioned.
Mann SHOULD make a Western, straight up, out the bottle, no glasses...
I would love to see that
Great film. Great job. Thanks for correctly entirely ignoring the wives and girlfriends subplots, which were the only flaws in this (just too much time with them). Diane Venora is good. Ashley Judd is insufferable. Another great film that was, for me, just about ruined by way too much damn time with the girlfriend, the dreadful Penelope Ann Miller, was Carlito's Way.