In 1995, Warner Bros. gave us Heat, a classic crime drama with an exceptional story, great characters and an absolutely top class cast. The story follows a gang of top level thieves who botch an armoured truck robbery, impulsively killing several armed guards. The LAPD's major crimes unit quickly become involved led by a tenacious detective to hunt the criminals and bring them to justice.
The film was written and directed by none other than Michael Mann, the mind behind Manhunter and Last of the Mohicans prior to Heat, and since then has given us Ali, Miami Vice and Public Enemies as a writer and director. Mann will also be directing the upcoming 2019 biopic Enzo Ferrari. The writer, director and producer is a master of historic crime genre of movies and his career is far from over.
The cast list is a bottomless Christmas stocking of awesome actors and actresses and the film itself is extremely well made, well edited, well directed and particularly well written and scripted. The movie was made on a budget of $60m and pulled down over $187m worldwide. It's an absolute must-see for fans of the crime genre movie and an absolutely essential addition to any DVD collection.

The cast of this movie is incredible. Admittedly, some cast members have found themselves considerably more famous here in 2019, but retrospectively, it's still a highly respectable lineup. Leading the bill are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer with support from Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora and Jon Voight. Following behind are Ted Levine (Shutter Island), Amy Brenneman (Fear), Ashley Judd (Double Jeopardy), Mykelti Williamson (Con Air, Forrest Gump), Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans), Hank Azaria (Godzilla), Dennis Haysbert (24), Martin Ferrero (Jurassic Park), Henry Rollins (Bad Boys II), Tom Noonen (Robocop 2), Jerry Trimble (The Flash), Tone Loc (Ace Ventura) and Jeremy Piven (Smokin' Aces, Entourage) as well as Danny Trejo, a very young Natalie Portman and of course, everyone's favourite that-guy actor, the mighty William Fichtner.

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