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Heat (1995)
The great thing about this film is the grittiness of it. The cops are real people with screwed up lives, and the robbers are equally challenged. You feel compassion for both sides and ultimately want both sides to win. Unfortunately, We just don’t buy the last twenty minutes. The “bad guy” goes on for two hours talking about how he never gets involved in anything that he can’t walk away from at the drop of a hat. He then proceeds to go against everything he has preached about for the entire film and ends up being killed. We just don’t think he would have done it. But there’s a lot of quality there as well. It’s another great example of authenticity to trade technique. The urban warfare technical weapons handling and strategies were brilliantly handled by advisor Andy McNab. McNab was part of a special forces team that was used during the Persian Gulf War to infiltrate enemy lines and sabotage SCUD missiles. Another interesting fact: when NBC edited this film for TV they cut somewhere around seventeen minutes of it. Mann was so furious with the poor-editing job that he pulled his name from it and slapped it with an Alan Smithee. (Written and directed by Michael Mann)
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