The better movie part, how bout a cross between Frankie and Johnny and Goodfellas? I was dreading the worst about this movie so thanks for being kind, not sure about that black hole of macho, but I'll take my chances. It wasn't that long ago that AP did The Insider. He's not just a badass y'know. This I will see.

There's some serious camp potential here, and I mean that as a compliment (potentially...). All the conventions in place. Two masters of scenery-chewing. Even the title has a sort of glorious lameness about it. Sounds like a future Hangover Theater mainstay!

Then, in 1995, I went and saw "Heat." And then I knew.

Al Pacino blew DeNiro right off the screen. It was the humanity he portrayed. DeNiro could only act as DeNiro has always acted, like an angry iciclel. Pacino acted like a genuine human being.

We gotta have a car chase. Every Hollywood crime movie has a car chase. And, it has to last at least 20 minutes and it has to have cars driving 110 mph on crowded city sidewalks with pedestrians performing gravity defying moves to get out of the way - and just in time. And, a fruit stand has to be smashed up too.

I mean everything, EVERYTHING, is recycled...the cast, the script, the dialogue, I bet the locations, costumes and music are all from previous films as well. If nothing else Greenpeace should give this movie five stars for all the energy saved by not bothering to do one original thing in this whole movie.

Note to Hollywood: while I love DeNiro and Pacino, watching two characters at least five years past mandatory retirement age pretend to be detectives is really pushing it. (And I thought Jerry O was pushing it "Law and Order"...) Could we please have more age appropriate actors and try and develop some new talent? What's next Diane Keaton as a love interest in Hollywood's next big "soon to be on Lifetime/Oxygen/We" romance?

Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Micheal Keaton...any of these guys would be better for these roles and the "youngerish dectives" would look more plausable. They should like dectives sons not their grandsons. Please, no more Dennis Hopper/Jack Nickelson types with the late 20 early 30 something babes hanging off of them unless they are fabulously rich--especially Nichelson--he's old, bald and over weight--nobody is that freakin' charming.