Thank you. I completely agree: I thought this movie was crap. There are soooo many better heist flicks out there (incl
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cdellier — 18 years ago(October 30, 2007 12:32 AM)
no kidding! anyone who would make a statement like that knows very little about film. I'm sorry but Heat doesn't touch this movie,especially in authenticity.(there's a reason it's James Caan's favorite role)if you watch recent shows like Las Vegas,Caan is still incorporating elements of that character (Frank) in his new roles. Last of the Mohicans is better? "ka-thunk" (the sound of me falling off my chair laughing!)and no ..Collateral is not that great either.
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Mr Blue-4 — 18 years ago(May 27, 2007 04:38 PM)
You're flat out wrong. This was "cool" when I saw it in high school in the '80s, and now I see it for the deeper work it is (back then it was easy to be distracted by the score and the look: we didn't know that "Miami Vice" would be a weekly version of this in a few years).
The directing and acting in this hold up. It's an urban crime film: whadya expect, Noel Coward? They talk the way these guys really talk, not the least of which is because a bunch of guys in the movie are the real deal. If you like Last of the Mohicans over this, I don't know -
robhumanick — 18 years ago(March 29, 2008 11:35 AM)
Heck, if it's in good shape I'll take it for that price.
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m-slovak79 — 16 years ago(April 19, 2009 03:57 PM)
well i also think it's (Thief (1981)) a little overrated to. i just got done seeing it for the first time a few moments ago and
it's definitely not bad but it's nothing special unlike Mann's other films like 'Heat' (1995) (10/10) and 'Collateral' (2004) (9/10, my 2nd favorite 'Hitman Themed' film ever behind 'Leon' (1994) 133min version) which are his masterpieces.
James Caan was solid in his role but the film as a whole just aint nothing special unlike the two Mann films i mentioned above.
all in all i give it a 6/10 (if i had to choose a 5 or 7 i would say 7 it's probably more like a 6.5/10)
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Matthew_Diamond — 13 years ago(July 21, 2012 10:42 AM)
The reason why this movie was so great, and perhaps you're not being used to seeing a real movie being a child of CGI, is that this movie drops all pretenses. The actors are playing real characters. Heck, even the band in the Katznjammer bar (Mighty Joe Young) was real, and they were really playing and not over-dubbing. The doctor in the hospital was a real doctor, and the look Frank gave him really scared him; hence, his reaction is real. I think that's what really scared you, is the reality of the movie. Or the "awfulness" of its reality.
That's my take on it.
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hansenmv2002 — 13 years ago(August 31, 2012 10:14 PM)
TCM i recall seeing it late on a movie channel years ago interesting "get out of the mob" type movie - thought it was great - the safe cracking scenes i recall were cool. ??? on seeing again decades later - im curious myself.
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cliddelltext — 13 years ago(January 01, 2013 02:35 AM)
I don't know how anyone can say this is a great film. This is certainly not on the list of greatest films. I know this is not a popular opinion, but Heat has never thrilled me either. Heat had potential to be a lot better than it was, which made it disappointing to me. Miami Vice (series) had some of his best work and some of his worst too, but when he was on, Mann got it right, boy, he got it right. Collateral and Ali pretty were very good, but I'm sorry, Public Enemies just not good at all.
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