JM Classic Performance Dissection : Al Pacino as Vincent Hanna

The year is 95 and the perspectives tempting, "the first film ever to star Pacino and DeNiro", well matter of fact, both of them were in "the godfather II" but in diffrent time periods, which means they never met on screen, The director was Michael Mann, one of the biggest unsung heroes of directing in hollywood, and the movie was called simply "Heat"

First of all, you can say anything about Pacino, but almost no actor is that intense, and the intensity of Pacino drives his performances, of course so many to number, and generally great ones, and Pacino plays Vincent Hanna, an LAPD crime fighting unit boss, who has to deal with a team of hyper professionals lead by the character played by DeNiro.

But not only that, because he plays a detective who is possessed by his work, as maybe he sees in it a form of gratifiction, or a way to let his primary hunter instincts at work, and all that while working out a third or fourth marriage already on the verge of the D valley, and a teenage suicidal daughter, who is not even his daughter.

As the film evloves, the hunter becomes the hunted, and a lot of mirroring between the two charaters happens, which leads to one of the most famous scenes in cinema history, Pacino drives this neurotic, brilliant, paternal figure character with his sheer force of wit, and makes us really wish that crime fighters were so dedicated, and uncorruptible.

I think the pacino performance at the time marked everybody who watched it, and many of the film's scene have been copied and pasted all over cinema history, but if there was one thing you can't forget, it's the calm Vincent Hanna in the diner scene, the neurotic Vincent Hanna while dealing with criminals, and of course the satisfied hunter Vincent Hanna while shooting a criminal, and man, It was big !