(4) Fav Film HEAT

Alex Holt

02/15/2012

HEAT

               The movie HEAT has the perfect name Micheal Man went outside of the box and took a gamble on this movie, because most action movies over 2 hours usually cannot hold the audience’s attention because it becomes ether to much action and no plot or not enough action and boring. In my personal opinion I think Man knew that he had the talent in this movie to hold the suspense all the way until the big shot out at the end. The two stars of this movie were Neil McCauley as (De Niro) and Detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Neil played a bad guy who was a major bank robber and a major player in the underworld activities. While Vincent went head to head against Neil throughout most the movie. This movie and American Gangster has a lot of things in common, the two main characters in both movies are a good guy and a bad guy, the bad guys life outside of his professional careers are good , while the good guys personal life’s are bad and not a good example of how to live a regular life.

            In the movie Vincent’s wife says to him that he is no different than the men he are chasing. This seems to be true in the movie because the director gives off the impression that Vincent likes to chase the bad guy and he looks up to the ones who gives him a challenge. In one scene Vincent pulls Neil over and ask him to go get coffee with him, so as they have their coffee the conversation gets interesting when Vincent says if I have to put you down I will, But what was so different about that conversation is Vincent wanted to be Neil’s friend and they had never met, Vincent respected Neil and really didn’t want to have to take him down. In this conversation Neil says you cannot have anything in your life you’re not willing to throw away in 30 seconds are less, when the heat is on. At the end of the movie this is tested when Neil gets back to the getaway car and he spots Vincent coming straight at him he has to decide to get his woman and money are leave them and run from Vincent. After Neil keeps to his word and leaves the woman and cash the HUNT started. Both Neil and Vincent both liked the hunt throughout the movie so it was only right for them to have the best head to head hunt of the movie, although in a hunt one of the men have to die. I will not tell you the story but I will tell you that this is a must see movie it sets the bar for any action movie for the next 25 years. This movie was made in 1995 and I still have not seen a movie as long as action compacted to this day.