Heat. Heist movie? Probably.

So this week we are going to talk about Michael Mann's, are we going to call it a masterpiece? I think we are.

I think we'd call it, yeah, yeah, go on, we'll call it a masterpiece, yeah, yeah.

I think it is, because I've watched it one and a half times in the last week.

And, yeah, so, shall we give the listener a quick rundown? You're good at that, you're better than me.

Well, it's Heat.

Yeah, Heat from 1995, technically.

Okay, so a disciplined professional thief, Neil McCauley, leads a crew pulling high-stakes heists across Los Angeles, but a compromised armoured car job puts obsessive LAPD detective Vincent Hanna on their trail.

As both men juggle collapsing personal lives, their mutual respect sharpens an inevitable collision between A final bank robbery triggers a brutal downtown shootout, pushing Macaulay towards escape and Hannah towards closure.

He becomes a tense duel between two men defined by professionalism, loneliness, and the cost of their choices.

I mean, it's a big old showing off, isn't it?

It's a big one, yeah.

It's a very big, sprawling, epic...

yeah

it is big it's big in every regard i

think

it's long it's

very long

epic in its themes it's incredible in its performances it looks amazing it really does um

get into that a little bit later

so al pacino and robert de niro sharing the screen for the first time

sharing the screen

yes they had been in a film one other film together

before that

yeah godfather part two but they didn't actually because they were playing the same no they weren't the same character

playing father and son but in different time zones yeah