Sunday, April 30, 2006
The heat is on - Glenn Frey
I watched "Heat" this weekend. Finally! It's a 1995 movie and i've been procrastinating - yeah for more than 10 years!!!!!! Beat that! ;-P
Excellent movie! The main selling point of the movie is the fact that it's the first - and so far, only movie where 2 heavyweight actors shared the screen together:-
Arguably, 2 of the best actors around, Al Pacino and Robert De Nero appear together in this movie (note: both were in Godfather 2 but never shared any screen time together).
Both of their performances were simply brilliant! I'm surprised neither received any nomination for any award!!!!
Al Pacino is a top cop - De Nero is the top thief. Yet, they share so many similarities - their passion for their work, their inability to hold on to a relationship, the loyalty they have from their subordinates.
The scene in the picture above is one of the best scenes in any movie ever for me. Pacino's character decided to have a chat wif De Nero's character. And so they do. They treat each other wif utmost respect. They are brutally honest. And it even come to apoint when they shared their deepest feelings wif each other - it was almost like they had a connection - and you can see this connection again at the very last scene of the movie (but i won't say wat it is). It was uber cool!
But it doesn't stop there. There is a star studded cast - Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Wes Studi, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, Hank Azaria, Dennis Haysbert, a very young Natalie Portman and many more!
There is this one major action scene which just took my breath away! It bordered on madness - a shoot-out with automatic rifles in the streets of LA. It was uber cool (that word again! Word of the day for me!). And when i went on IMDB to read about it, i understood why it was sogood - their advisor was none other than Andy McNab, the former SAS guy.
Sigh... they dun make cops and robbers movies like this any more! But then, Michael Mann, the writer and director for Heat is also the writer and director of Miami Vice The Movie coming out this year! With Academy Award Winner Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrel and Gong Li, it is hard to keep my expectations low!
Excellent movie! The main selling point of the movie is the fact that it's the first - and so far, only movie where 2 heavyweight actors shared the screen together:-
(Pic obtained from www.moviereporter.net)
Arguably, 2 of the best actors around, Al Pacino and Robert De Nero appear together in this movie (note: both were in Godfather 2 but never shared any screen time together).
Both of their performances were simply brilliant! I'm surprised neither received any nomination for any award!!!!
Al Pacino is a top cop - De Nero is the top thief. Yet, they share so many similarities - their passion for their work, their inability to hold on to a relationship, the loyalty they have from their subordinates.
The scene in the picture above is one of the best scenes in any movie ever for me. Pacino's character decided to have a chat wif De Nero's character. And so they do. They treat each other wif utmost respect. They are brutally honest. And it even come to apoint when they shared their deepest feelings wif each other - it was almost like they had a connection - and you can see this connection again at the very last scene of the movie (but i won't say wat it is). It was uber cool!
But it doesn't stop there. There is a star studded cast - Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Wes Studi, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, Hank Azaria, Dennis Haysbert, a very young Natalie Portman and many more!
There is this one major action scene which just took my breath away! It bordered on madness - a shoot-out with automatic rifles in the streets of LA. It was uber cool (that word again! Word of the day for me!). And when i went on IMDB to read about it, i understood why it was sogood - their advisor was none other than Andy McNab, the former SAS guy.
Sigh... they dun make cops and robbers movies like this any more! But then, Michael Mann, the writer and director for Heat is also the writer and director of Miami Vice The Movie coming out this year! With Academy Award Winner Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrel and Gong Li, it is hard to keep my expectations low!
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