Loving my day off! Spent a majority of the day Sporcling and playing games and just overall relaxing. Tomorrow will be a lot of the same, with some driving and lesson planning thrown in. You know, just for variety. Ha.
Unless I'm mistaken, this movie-- which comes in at a somewhat stifling 171 minutes-- holds the current record for longest film of the list to this point. One of the reasons I'm watching the film is that it's always held a certain cachet in the film industry as the first movie that ever had a scene where DeNiro and Pacino chew the scenery simultaneously. In addition, it's also supposed to be a pretty great movie.
And really, one notices during the opening credits that there is a large number of very recognizable (and, in many cases, good) actors and actresses in the movie. Among them: DeNiro and Pacino, Natalie Portman, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Danny Trejo, Jon Voight, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Ted Levine, Dennis Haysbert. Really, who's not in this movie? While this does not always make for a good movie (I'm looking at you, Valentine's Day), I feel much more confident that this will go well.
The nice thing about Heat is that, despite its length (and yes, at times it feels a bit long, but that's not really the overall feeling) and its complexity of plot, it feels neither too impossible and convoluted to follow nor so simple as to make the audience feel they've been cheated out of actual plot. At its heart, it's quite simple: good guys (mostly one) versus bad guys. Like most movies of this genre, there are several subplots, especially those centered around loved ones, but I wouldn't have minded slightly more time spent with them, too. (Just don't make the movie 200 minutes, please.)
And the final touching handhold between RD and AP is what true love is all about.
Score: 8/10
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