I do not know for what reasons, I woke up pretty early today, ~ 0430 …And before I can get back to sleep, I need to watch or listen to something dead boring.  Hence i ran through my DVD collections to see if I can find any. Unfortunately no, well, pretty simple, why would i keep any boring title with me. What an idiot of me?

At the end, I chose to watch this old movie. It’s called HEAT, a 1995 American action crime thriller film written and directed by Michael Mann. It stars Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer.

Mind you, I have watched this movie for more than 8 or 9 times since 1995.This is one of the crime movies that you should not miss in your life. Budgeted at $60,000,000 (estimated) but total Gross revenue was about $187,436,818 (worldwide). (according to Wikipedia).

Heat was well-received by critics, earning an 89% “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 75 on Metacritic. Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of 4, writing: “It’s not just an action picture.

Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they’re thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary.

Heat was listed as the 38th greatest film in history in Empire’s 2008 list of the “500 Greatest Movies of All Time”.

Let me share with you some unforgettable scenes from this movie:

This is a scene with splendid dialogs between the 2:

Al Pacino (the police) invited Robert (the thief) for coffee at a local diner. During their tense meeting, Robert tells Al Pacino that he won’t go back to prison, no matter the cost. Al Pacino talks about a recurrent dream he has, where he is in a coffee shop surrounded by dead persons he once knew, and they stare at him with empty eyes, in silence.

They also talked about their relations, and Robert says that his rule is “never let yourself get attached to anything that you can’t leave behind in thirty seconds if you feel the heat around the corner”. The two professionals examine each other; despite their positive impressions, each reveals that he would not hesitate to kill the other if the situation demands it.

And this is the climax: An intense gunfight breaks out in downtown L.A. See the guns they used,the 8mm bullets shell holes on the cars, damn superb and real. And i liked the music too. Also, pay attention on how Al Pacino shot dead the last thief at the end of this scene. clean shot…

The explicit nature of several of the scenes in Heat was cited as the model of a spate of robberies since its release. This included armored car robberies in South Africa, Colombia, and Denmark and a bank robbery (The North Hollywood Shootout) in North Hollywood, California.

The success of the movie attirbuted to the brain behind it, the Director. This confirmed Michael Mann as one of Hollywood’s smartest, most stylish and emotionally articulate directors. His other works include following: