Heat Page #2

Synopsis: Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Michael Mann
Production: Warner Bros.
  12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
1995
170 min
10,688 Views


What?

What are you reading?

Book about metals.

Stress Fractures in Titanium.

What kind of work do you do?

Lady, why are you so interested

in what I read or what I do?

I've seen you in the store.

What store?

Hennessey and Ingalls. I work there.

If you don't want to talk to me, it's okay.

I'm sorry I bothered you.

I didn't mean to be rude.

I didn't recognize you.

I work in metals. I'm a salesman.

My name's Neil.

I'm Eady.

You like working there?

Sure.

I get a discount and there's

a whole section of books in my area.

What area?

Graphic design.

I do letterheads and logotypes

at night and...

...the store's a day job

until I get enough going.

Who do you do that for?

A restaurant.

I did their menus, and...

...a small record label.

CDs.

I've done two so far.

You go to school for that?

Yeah.

I went to Parsons.

Where's that?

New York City.

How long you been here?

About a year.

Like it?

Not really. I'm mostly here for the work.

Live in this neighborhood?

No, I live kind of above Sunset Plaza.

It's a little house I rent.

And it's kind of rundown,

but a beautiful, beautiful view.

What about you?

I live up here.

That's very funny.

Where's your family from originally?

They're Scots-Irish.

They emigrated to Appalachia...

...in the late 1700s.

Where are you from?

The Bay area.

Your folks there?

My mother died a long time ago,

and my father...

...I don't know where he is.

Got a brother somewhere.

You have a tight family. I can tell.

Right?

You're right.

City of lights....

In Fiji, they have these...

...iridescent algae that come out

once a year in the water.

That's what it looks like out there.

You been there?

No, I'm going there some day.

You travel a lot?

Yeah.

Travelling makes you lonely?

I'm alone. I am not...

...lonely.

You?

Real lonely.

Albert!

Sh*t!

What you doing here? You crazy?

This ain't Disneyland.

You were supposed to get back to me.

Where the f*** you been?

I couldn't break free.

Let's violate his ass right now.

I do for you...

...you don't do for me, is that it?

Listen, man. I swear, I was out all night.

I'm hidden like a Flamingo matador.

That's got nothing to do with me.

I'm cutting it smooth. I'm generating

leads and sh*t for you. I'm a dancer.

You bullshit.

I paged your ass all day.

I hate f***ing paging.

You're a speed freak,

jacking methamphetamine again.

Where's your empathy?

It's a substance abuse problem.

Empathy was yesterday. Today you're

wasting my motherfucking time.

You fall in love?

Did you fall in love...

...and went off somewhere?

Tell me that, I'll settle for it.

Give me all you got!

Give me all you got!

I swear, my brother Richard's going

to talk to you.

I heard Richard?

He's going to talk to you.

He's gonna meet you tonight.

He's not here, is he?

No, he'll meet you tonight.

What happened to now?

I implored him because I knew

you was coming this a.m.

Bullshit.

I swear. He said no...

...'cause he in Phoenix.

"By the time I get to Phoenix

"He'll be rising

"He'll probably leave a note

"Right on the door"

Tonight's the best I can do for you.

He'll meet you at BJ's on Alvarado.

At 2:
00 a.m.

Be there.

You be there too.

I can't be there, man. I got things to do.

I got things to do, I got places to be.

Be there.

Don't waste my motherfucking time!

What is it?

It's a bank.

It depos cash on Thursday for distribution

to all the other branches...

...to cover Friday payroll checks.

So on Thursdays,

the command branch has got a full whack.

On the prowl or strong?

Through the door.

How many guys?

About four, or three, plus a driver.

You walk in, knock 'em over, walk out.

You want $100,000 in advance

against a ten-percent cut for that?

Sounds like a cowboy score.

They hit the hold-up alarms,

I gotta get out before the cops show.

They hit three hold-up alarm systems.

Two Telco and a cellular.

But the signals aren't

going anywhere because...

...the night before...

...you cut in...

...and trick out

the alarm system computer...

...to turn itself...

...and the video recorders off...

...20 minutes before you enter.

Architectural, electrical plans?

I got that.

I got the boards already built.

They go into the CPU.

What's the estimate?

You're on.

Congratulations.

Let me give you a little idea

of where my estimates come from.

Nobody knew the merch was yours.

My way, you get 100 percent

from the insurance company...

...take the bonds back from us...

...at 60 cents on the dollar

and make yourself another 40 percent.

The operation doesn't skip a beat.

We all make out.

Sure, you got a deal.

Good, because there's no percentage

if everyone gets upset.

You have your man call me

and we'll set the meet.

Yeah, okay.

Nice talking to you.

You gonna deal with these guys?

Word's on the street

it's okay to steal my stuff.

I'm going to kill these sons of b*tches.

Have Harry bring me the spreadsheets

for Canary Island's Offshore.

That's not really an estimate.

Those are exact figures.

I have a printout of the bank's cash flow

for the past two months.

How'd you get this information?

Just comes to you.

This stuff just flies through the air.

It's just beamed out all over the place.

You just have to grab it.

I know how to grab it.

Okay, here we go.

-I bought it.

-Good.

What did I tell you?

Here.

We're on. Call Van Zant,

collect the money.

How is he?

He's a businessman.

Chris is at my place.

What's wrong?

Husband and wife stuff.

I'll let him sleep it off.

What happened to you?

When will you get some furniture?

When I get around to it.

Charlene's gonna leave me.

Why?

Not enough steaks in the freezer.

With everything we've been doing?

Vegas and the Super Bowl cleaned me out.

When you gonna get an old lady?

When I get around to it.

You got something else on the side?

Nothing regular.

She got something else on the side?

You sure?

Yeah, I'm sure.

I don't know what you're doing.

As Jimmy said, "You want to be

making moves on the street?

"Have no attachments.

Allow nothing to be in your life...

"...that you can't walk out on in 30 seconds

if you spot the heat around the corner."

Remember that?

For me, the sun rises

and sets with her, man.

We take delivery of cash from Van Zant...

...then I drop a deposit on Kelso

for this bank.

Bank? What bank?

What about the platinum thing?

It's ready to fall.

That goes too. Then the bank.

Want some breakfast?

Are you okay?

Yeah, sugar.

For real.

I'll do good.

I'll see you later.

You Solenko?

Don Breedan.

Grierson, my parole officer, told me to

come by here, see if you had a job for me.

You're familiar with this kind of operation?

I'm a great grill man.

Good. Good for you.

You'll mop the toilets, hit the dishwasher,

bus tables and empty the garbage.

Give me a hard time, I'll report you loaded,

drunk or stealing.

I'll violate you back fast.

Twenty-five percent of your take-home

kicks back to me.

Rules of the game. Call Grierson,

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Michael Mann

Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. more…

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