Heat: Director's Definitive Edition

Twenty-six years after it was released, I'm not sure that Heat has ever been bettered as an action film, or as a crime drama.

Heat gives us one of crime cinema's great cat-and-mouse chases, and brilliantly pairs it with the little everyday dramas of family, romance, parenting and work-life balance in the life-and-death professions of both cops and robbers.

A triumphant assemblage of carefully interlocking components; working in concert with the precision of a Swiss timepiece.

The precious few exchanges between legendary actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro make it all worthwhile.

'For me, the action is the juice.' That is the defining theme of Michael Mann's work - to examine how people operate within their own moral system, and how it contrasts with the rest of society.