If right now you don't go watch the best action thriller of all time then you should just fuck off back to that hole you came out of!
Gabriel Somers
Movie Nerd
"She's got a great ass, and you got your head all the way up it!"
Hunters and their prey. Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor - 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending!
Did Ya Know?
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IT’S BASED OFF A REAL STORY - In 1963 a Chicago detective named Chuck Adamson dined in a Chicago coffee shop with convicted bank robber Neil McCauley. A year after the fated meeting, Adamson tracked McCauley and his crew to an in-progress supermarket heist. A chase ensued and McCauley was shot on a front lawn.
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VAL KILMER’S GUN-HANDLING SKILLS WERE IMPRESSIVE - The actors trained with men from the British Special Air Service (SAS) and at the L.A. County Sheriff’s combat shooting ranges. Mann told Deadline. “[The actors] got so good that the footage of Val Kilmer, firing in two directions and doing a reload without a cut, they used that at Fort Bragg for Special Forces training.”
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HEAT IS ONE OF BEN AFFLECK’S FAVORITE HEIST FILMS - For The Town, the 2010 bank robbery heist movie that he co-wrote, directed, and starred in, Ben Affleck found inspiration in Heat. “A movie hasn’t been made since that has a deeper feel of authenticity,” Affleck told The Daily Beast of Heat.
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