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HEAT (1995) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Reaction & Commentary | It's the DREAM TEAM

Shanelle Riccio

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Woo midweek drop -- HEAT (1995) You guys have been mentioning this one for AGES and yeah, I get it. Watch me watch Pacino yell and DeNiro give the squint™️ and then meet me down below and let me know where Heat stacks up for you in terms of the greatest films of all time?!

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Time Codes:
00:00 - Intro
02:37 - Start Watching
38:05 - Wrap it up!

20 Comments

@charlize1253 3 years ago (edited)

I worked in an office in downtown LA in 1994 when they filmed the bank shootout. For 4 days, an entire block was cordoned off and there was machine gun fire on and off all day long. During lunch I would walk to the corner and watch the filming, along with a hundred other onlookers. We were told that it was for a movie called "Heat," but we were too far away to see any of the major stars. Still a cool memory though.

@goldean5974 2 years ago

What I love about the bank heist scene is how it goes from 0-60 in less than a second. It’s exactly how things like that go down in real life. Michael Mann is a genius at stretching tension to the breaking point and then letting it snap.

@ryanhampson673 2 years ago

The shootout scene with Kilmer and De Niro shooting and moving is one of the best demonstrations of “Bounding under fire” ever on film. When one yells “GO” laying down suppressive fire while the other advances. “Shoot, move, communicate.”

@dmn23 3 years ago

Far and away the best shootout scene in cinema history. But no one ever seems to mention how eerily similar this was to the real life North Hollywood Bank of America robbery that happened about a year later.

@scottlouis 3 years ago (edited)

Mann said that the Portman twist was planned. He wanted the audience to forget about her the way her family does. I remember seeing that and was shocked. Very effective plot direction. Also, there was a deleted story detail that Pacino's character has a cocaine problem. Hence his insane deliveries. lol

@Snowtail07 3 years ago

The best thing about this movie is that it's inspired by the true events of a cop and career criminal who matched wits in Chicago in the 60s. His story inspired Michael Mann to make this movie

@kevinramsey417 3 years ago (edited)

Yes, Pacino and De Niro are both in Godfather II, but they don't share the screen together. De Niro plays the younger version of Vito, Michael's (Pacino) father in flashbacks to Don Vito Corleone's rise through the criminal underworld. This was actually the first time they'd ever be acting off each other. it was considered a pretty big deal for the time and it did NOT disappoint. Every frame of this movie was absolutely riveting. The coffee shop scene is one of my all-time favorites.

@cajunsushi 3 years ago (edited)

That last scene where they’re holding hands, gets me every time.

@wilshade 3 years ago

I did see this in a mall movie theater a month or so after it was released. It stands out in my memory because it was, and still is, unique among my movie theater experiences. I was in the back row and could see the entire theater easily and every seat was filled 20 minutes before showtime. No one came in after the movie started. No one got up for a bathroom break. No one left until after the credits were done. This was long before "end credit scenes" were a thing. When the big gunfight started, many people nearly gave themselves whiplash because the surround sound had that realistic gunfire coming from all directions.

@marcella6969 3 years ago

Fun Fact: The bank cameras were tricked out 15 minutes before the heist according to previous dialog!

@laudanum669 3 years ago

TRIVIA: For music lovers. @13:00 is Rapper Tone Loc best know for the song "Funky Cold Medina" and @29:15 is Henry Rollins he was in the punk band Black Flag.

@keyman6689 3 years ago

Shootout and the planes landing in the climactic scene were jaw-dropping in the theater. The sound took your breath away! In my 5 decades of going to the theater, it's one of a handful of memorable experiences that only the theater can provide.

@esl4058 3 years ago

Fun fact: the opening bank robbery in the dark knight was inspired by the bank robbery scene in heat, complete with William fitchner who plays zant in heat and the bank manager in the dark knight.

@matthewford5094 3 years ago

Manhunter (1986) was a great early Mann film. It was actually the first movie to feature the character Hannibal Lecter. (If I remember correctly Red Dragon is basically a remake of it.)

@CrashTestPilot 3 years ago

Saw this in the theatre. The bank robbery gunfight in the street is still a high water mark for me to this day. Just based on the sound alone, it might be one of the most visceral gunfights put to film.

@matthewwhite7473 3 years ago

24:29 They put the masks on late on purpose. The surveillance was disabled and you'll notice that Chris was the one who struck first drawing all the attention of everyone in the bank while the other two covered their faces and pulled out their guns to intervene the guards as they were attracted to Chris. You'll also notice that later Chris cut his hair so he looks completely different to what witnesses would of described him as looking like. So the only description the witnesses will be giving officers later is that one of them had long blonde hair tied up. There is some clever psychology to it. A lot of misdirection which helps them take over the bank quickly with the element of surprise.

@monsterkhan3414 3 years ago

Heat is Michael Mann's masterpiece. Great movie. Other great Michael Mann movies are "The Jericho Mile" (1979) & "Manhunter" (1986). If you want to watch another great heist film then react to "Sneakers" (1992). If you want to react to another great character piece full of great actors then watch "Cop Land" (1997).

@curtisbailey78 3 years ago

I love how this is a movie about two men who are victims of their own natures, and how that makes them almost closer and more intimately linked with each other than anyone else in their lives.

@gordonwittmann9823 3 years ago

You're absolutely right, when I left the theater after seeing this in 1995 I was stunned. I couldn't believe what I had just seen and even now I consider it one of my favorite movie-going experiences.