As Michael Mann’s Heat 2 inches closer to becoming a cinematic reality, we’re revisiting one of our earliest conversations about the great Al Pacino-Robert De Niro head-to-head, with special appearances from a young Natalie Portman and a wiggy Val Kilmer.

References
James Clark and Paul Szoldra, ‘That one scene in Heat that gave audiences the most realistic firefight in movie history’
Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner, Heat 2 (2022)
Koralijka Suton, ‘Heat at 25: Michael Mann’s meticulous masterpiece’
‘The Making of Heat (1995)’

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Original music by James Brailsford

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