A sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving. The dark end of the street doesn't get much more inviting than this.Read Full Review »
100
USA Today: Mike Clark
Heat is in the cop-movie pantheon with Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low," and that's as "right" as the genre gets.Read Full Review »
90
NewsWeek: David Ansen
A stunning crime drama that shares its protagonists' rabid attention to detail—and love of adrenalin.Read Full Review »
90
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
As with his other works, [Mann] binds sound, music and pictures into one hypnotic triaxial cable and plugs it right into your brain. He makes this almost-three-hour experience practically glide by.Read Full Review »
88
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
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. They're not trapped with cliches.Read Full Review »
80
Time: Richard Schickel
A lot of very good actors...do honest, probing work in a context where, typically, less will do.Read Full Review »
67
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
We're not watching McCauley and Hanna anymore; we're watching De Niro and Pacino trying to out-insinuate each other. For a few moments, Heat truly has some.Read Full Review »
60
Washington Post: Hal Hinson
Ultimately, though, the movie never transcends the limitations of its Hemingwayesque, men-with-men attitudes.Read Full Review »
50
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
I lost track of how many times I checked my watch during the nearly three interminable hours it took Heat to play itself to a predictable conclusion of a chase scene and a shoot-out.Read Full Review »
50
The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Its sensational looks pale beside storytelling weaknesses that expose the more soulless aspects of this cat-and-mouse crime tale. [15 Dec 1995]Read Full Review »
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