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I haven't watched this movie yet but I've heard good things about it.

A Great movie, better than the 4k uhd blu ray copy

This film is on my top 5 list of all time!!! And will remain there for an eternity. I first owned it on VHS back in the 90's, then picked up the bluray in 2011 from Bestbuy.com which I now gave to my father, and now had to have THE DEFINITIVE DIRECTOR'S EDITION.This is cops and robbers at its best. Best shootout scene to this day. Best drama, score etc... Also, the additional features and nice slipcover make this re-buy darn worth it!!!

I saw this film in theaters back in 1995; was surprised by this cast and the direction of Michael Mann. It’s still a milestone in modern cinema; and the blu-Ray release is an impressive one with amazing featurettes; especially “The Conversation”; which was on making the famous scene between Pacino & DeNiro in the restaurant.

Classic movie into a higher resolution great to add to my collection

After a fairly solid but troubled Blu-ray from Warner Brothers back in 2009, Michael Mann has given it another go and along with 20th Century Fox given us an excellent new release with the 'Director's Definitive Edition' as mentioned on the front cover. Heat is perhaps one of the most definitive cops and robbers movie ever made. A dark, realistic tale that not only gives us a very authentic look at heist crews and the detectives who take them down but the toll it takes on their personal lives. Al Pacino gives a startling and lively performance as an overworked cop named Vincent Hanna who is slowly losing touch with his family and possibly his sanity. Robert DeNiro in another one of his sterling roles as a professional but ultimately ruthless thief named Neil McCauley whose code of conduct is shaken a bit by the love of a designer named Eady (played by Amy Brenneman). Both men despite respecting each other in some aspects become hunter and hunted on the streets of L.A. as Vincent sees his marriage fall apart and Neil sees multiple betrayals and a number of his crew picked off as he pulls off a major bank heist. The supporting cast for this film is tremendous with great performances from Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Ted Levine, William Fichtner and small but memorable roles for Henry Rollins, Tom Noonan and Hank Azaria who gets the brunt of Vincent's beratement. As mentioned before this film had been given a solid but flawed release before by Warner Brothers. Solid in that it had fairly good picture quality but flawed in that the audio quality was not up to par. Warner has a habit of setting the sound levels for voices a bit too low and then setting the sound for action sequences very, very high. Here thankfully this has been fixed. The audio sounds very good and much more balanced. Now dialogue is clear as ever and the action sequences still sound very explosive (especially the pinnacle shoot-out scene following the robbery which is still one the best scenes of it's kind ever filmed). The picture quality has been given a very good 4K upgrade over the first Blu-ray, eschewing the more colder, grayer look for somewhat warmer and more realistic-looking skin tones and natural looking lighting. Don't worry, it's still a dark, shadowy picture though but the scenes in daylight look like scenes in daylight and scenes at night are much more refined and natural looking. Also the film does look a bit more detailed than the previous release did and given this is a 2-disc release the new transfer is housed on it's own disc with the special features on the second disc so compression is pretty much non-existent here. The special features for the most part are the same from the previous release with several documentaries, deleted scenes and commentary by director Michael Mann. The new stuff though is very good with a new hour-long Q&A segment from last year's Film Academy screening with most of the major cast included and a thirty-minute Q&A with Mann from 2015's Toronto Film Festival screening. Also have to commend 20th Century Fox for their new, excellent box art. Instead of the usual "floating heads over explosion" with a lot of movie covers they went with a more minimalistic and blue-colored view of L.A.'s skyline which looks absolutely gorgeous especially on the slipcover. I should also note though that this Blu-ray is like the previous one based off of Mann's changed version of the film which omitted the "Ferocious, aren't I?" line from Pacino's scene with Hank Azaria. Why this is still left out I'm not certain of although no further changes seem to have been made to the film that I can see. Overall this release lives up to its subtitle and hopefully will see a 4K UltraHD release in the near future so both Blu-ray enthusiasts and 4K enthusiasts get what they want. I'm personally happy previous issues have been corrected and can say this release is highly fabulous and recommended.

Heat is THE heist movie. It's a classic for a reason. I thought the directors definitive edition was good but to be honest I didn't notice the differences because I haven't watched the original edit recent enough to notice. I can say the HD picture looks good and upscaled with my LG 4k player to a 4k M series Vizo tv looked really good. (most Blu-ray's upscale well with my setup but not all). I won't bother talking about the plot, it's 2019, hit up IMDB for that information. But the quality of the specific item, purchased from Best Buy was good, the disk was not loose and floating around, the plastic case wasn't broken and I did store pick up that was ready within a hour or less. I think I also got it on sale for a pretty good price (under 10) so well worth getting the upgraded HD version and director cut if you're even a slight fan of this movie.

Heat is still an absolute masterpiece, it is the perfect character driven crime drama. Michael Mann pits Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a dueling cop and crook whose lives bear stunning resemblances to themselves. "Heat" abounds with fantastic action scenes, culminating in a bank heist and shootout between Neil McCauley's gang of bank robbers and Vincent Hanna's squad of police detectives. In the immediate aftermath of the heist are found the best action sequences in the entire film. I think they rank among the best action scenes in any movie of recent years. The battle between McCauley’s automatic weapons-wielding crew and dozens of Hanna’s equally well-armed police officers, fought over several city blocks, takes on the grim, fiery reality of urban combat. This scene is grand in its scope, perfectly executed, and positively gripping to watch.

Although the movie was lengthy, it was consistently enjoyable. Regrettably, these individuals no longer sell Blu-rays in physical stores. I am aware that Best Buy’s Blu-ray purchasing customers greatly appreciated the 50% discount during Black Friday sales.

Great character development. Excellent and seductive storyline. Emotionally charged and beautifully placed to the scene music score. (I highly recommend the soundtrack as well). High impact and extremely creative action scenes. One of the best casting jobs of all time. Top work with regards to the editing. Very memorable scene location choices (they even revisit some of them on the bonus footage). Outstanding direction from Mann as he and the cast keep you involved, concerned and anxious throughout the film. Repeat watching will be desired after your first viewing.

....and a great price for the blu-ray. I've had this on VHS and DVD and figured I may as well upgrade to blu-ray. This is probably my favorite Michael Mann film and a great crime story. Picture quality is great and the sound really pops on my JBL soundbar. If you don't have this, get it!

Heat is an amazing film with top notch performances from all lead and supporting actors. This Definitive Director’s Edition of the 1995 crime noir is the perfect addition to your Blu-ray Cole toon. A MUST OWN!

Definitve Pacino v. Deniro, both at their best! Unbelievable performances highlight "good" v. "bad" not only between the two characters, but within the characters themselves!!! Definitely worthy of several viewings!!! Video and Audio awesome. Bill Y.

I really enjoy this film and wanted to add it my collection. Very suspenseful crime drama based on a true story of Neil McCauley, a calculating criminal and ex-Alcatraz inmate who was tracked down by Detective Chuck Adamson in 1964. Good watch.

I had moved and was having issues getting cable and internet hooked up, for like two months, so on Black Friday last year I went to Best Buy and bought a bunch of movies to keep myself entertained (I’d switched to digital over the years, and not having internet meant I couldn’t watch any of them). I picked out some of my favorite movies and made it through the dark times lol.

A classic crime drama with an engaging script and an excellent cast. The digital code redeems for 4K with iTunes off and on when iTunes is selling the film in 4K. Perhaps some rights/contracts disputes are in play, so if you wait until you see you can purchase Heat in 4K on iTunes, then the code from this Blu-ray will redeem on iTunes for the 4K version of the film.

My experience picking up Heat [Director's Definitive Edition] [Blue-ray] [1995] at Best Buy Nashville West was so easy. It was fast & the customer service was friendly.

HEAT is a fantastic film. Directed by Michael Mann and starring 2 of the most influential and recognized actors of this century (Pacino and DeNiro) locked in conflict, on opposite sides of the law. Pacino is a hardened detective. DeNiro is the leader of a professional heist crew, being pursued by him. That's all you need to know. Go watch this film NOW.

Grand movie with a crisp and clear picture and sound. Classic movie heist with powerhouse acting and a fast paced direction makes for one heck of a ride. A must have.

Okay, Heat (as a movie) is simply amazing. If you're reading this review and you haven't watched the movie yet, just do it any way you can! Pacino vs De Niro is truly a sight to see, and the allstar ensemble cast is stellar. But I'm not here to review the movie, I'm going to review this particular bluray release of the movie. So without further ado... The long (and somewhat pretentious) superlative for this version, the "Director's Definitive Edition", is so named because it is a a new transfer and restoration supervised by the director himself. If you can't tell by the cover, Mann likes to use darkness to great effect in his films, and Heat is no different. This new transfer brings out many details (particularly in those dark night scenes) which were lost in previous releases and it looks amazing. Unless they do a new transfer for a 4K UHD release, I don't see how they could get much more out of the original film on which this was recorded. The sound is likewise supposedly an upgrade from the previous bluray release, with DTS-HD Master Audio in 5.1 in this new version; however, I couldn't tell a difference as my receiver cannot decode DTS, so I got the same standard 5.1 and it still sounded great. Dialog was clear and easily intelligible, with sound effects (gunfire!) spanning all the surround space nicely. As for extras, this is actually a 2-disc set: the first disc contains the movie with an optional commentary from the director (Michael Mann) and the second disc contains a bunch of extras, including a couple panels and a "making of" featurette -- those three features alone total more than two-and-a-half hours! And some of these extras have not been released previously, so that's an extra bonus. When taking into account all of the above, I can honestly say that "Heat, the Director's Definitive Edition" is definitely one bluray release which lives up to it's name!