This week, we review the Michael Mann classic, Heat, featuring an ensemble cast and starring Al Pacino, Robert Dinero, and Val Kilmer. We discuss how the characters and families reflect concepts of pragmatism and pessimism, the interplay between Pacino and Dinero, why we love Val Kilmer’s character in this film, the necessary loud acting of Pacino, the Mt. Rushmore of gangster movies, what happens to the main characters after the film, and how this film is like the perfect slice of NJ pizza.