The cops are similar to the robbers and vice-versa. This is an extended family where you feel you know all of them without knowing anything at all.

We know these men now.We know neither will stop at what they do.And yet there is no way either would stop the other.Unless they had too. Pacino doing ice cool calm? De Niro the manic outbursts,arms flailing? It wouldn't work. We all know De Niro and Pacino could have been either main part,but can you imagine it any other way round. What games did you play as a young kid? Cops and robbers.Good guy.Bad guy.

It's his most kinetic,vibrant(for a film mostly shot in steely blue),agonising,stirring,brash,violent and brilliance in such a simple story. You know that feeling of having seen it about 3 or 4 times in the last 12 months is not enough? That's what I feel at the moment.

When Hanna is speaking to Alan Marciano ( Hank Azaria), Marciano questions why he got involved with Charlene Shiherlis ( Ashley Judd) at all, and Hanna shouts, 'Cause she's got a great ass.and you got your head all the way up it!' The camera cuts to a stunned Marciano, and we hear Hanna say, 'Ferocious, aren't I?' The camera then cuts to Hanna and he says, 'When I think of asses, a woman's ass, something comes out of me.' In the Blu-ray cut, the line 'Ferocious, aren't I?' has been removed from the audio track.įor some reason I cannot stop thinking about this film lately.

To cover this edit, the camera cuts to Hanna rather than staying on Justine for the entirety of her monologue (which was how the scene played out in the Theatrical Cut). The rest is the mess you leave as you pass through.' In the Blu-ray cut, the line 'You sift through the detritus' has been removed. That's the only thing you're committed to. You sift through the detritus, you read the terrain, you search for signs of passing, for the scent of your prey, and then you hunt them down. In the Theatrical Cut, Justine says, 'You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people.

When Vincent Hanna ( Al Pacino) returns to the restaurant to pick up Justine ( Diane Venora), they have a low-key argument about his obsessive police work and how it is affecting the marriage.

For the film's Blu-ray release in 2009, director Michael Mann made two minor changes to the film (this Blu-ray cut has been used for all subsequent home video releases):

Heat & light by jennifer haigh