What was so thrilling about it? It never felt tense for me, more like an action movie in my mind...

Cat and mouse, when I knew the end was coming, I was on the edge of my seat. Up there with No Country as the best thriller I've seen in my mind. Unless I'm forgetting some.

HEAT is too slow to me. Maybe it's that Michael Mann's permanent obsession for making police movies with the aesthetics of a perfume advertisement. But despite that, I have to recognize that the shooting scene after the bank robbery is epic.

The Usual Suspects
The Prestige
American Psycho
Collateral
Training Day

I'd call all of those "Thriller" and prefer each of them to either Heat or No Country. No Country was better than Heat though...

You prefer Collateral over Heat? Really? I enjoyed it but it wasn't great. I think Heat is up there with American Psycho if not better, I honestly think Heat is a brilliant film. Really surprised that someone could watch it and by the end not being right on the edge of their seat.

Training Day was okay I suppose but in my eyes doesn't hold a shadow to Heat and The Prestige isn't anywhere near Heat, even though it's a good film. You know what you're getting with Nolan, I hope Inception will be everything I think it'll be, and The Usual Suspects is a bit overrated despite it still being a damn good film.

Heat needed a twist. And to be about 30 minutes shorter.

Collateral was just simply badass. Sames goes with Training Day and American Psycho.

The Usual Suspects and The Prestige are up there for their twists...

Heat didn't need a twist, the lack of twists compensates for the running time. Because it made it obvious what was going to happen, and there was only 2 things that could happen... Good guy wins, or the bad guy gets away. (Usual Suspects.)

Collateral gave me slightly more respect for Cruise, and was decent. But Heat is in a league of its own.

And yeah, both good films, lots of twists and turns.

I prefer Collateral to Heat too. In this case, Mann's "perfume advertisement style" doesn't interfere with the plot's development.

Wow, really? I thought it was it was pretty much the cinematic equivalent of staring at a blank spot on the wall.

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Just look at this painting as some introduction to the whole movie:

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and Voltaire's "Il faut cultiver notre jardin" (We should cultivate our garden).

It's just one of these films that have an infinite possibility of analysis. From "Eve" to the Garden of Paradise. To the literal garden, and the red apple he shines on his jacket. From the children of television, with Sesame Street (beginning 1969), which is shown 5 minutes into the movie, to the naïvety that is just another way to look into the world without all the prejudices. And just, the illusion, that all the cinema and television are creating, by calling it "reality".

It's just an endless world of possibilities. And that blank spot that is Chance, is exactly what this character is all about. A bit like Peter Sellers himself, that found himself, naked of his character, as nothing.