Why Michael Mann Doesn't Consider Heat A 'Crime Movie'

Jul 6 2022 by /Film

 

If you consider Michael Mann's "Heat" to be one of the greatest crime films ever made, you are wrong. Care to disagree? Take it up with Mann.

In a 2018 interview with Empire, the esteemed auteur of such crime classics as "Thief," "Manhunter," and "Miami Vice" bristled at the notion that his 1995 masterpiece could be categorized so blithely:

"To me, 'Heat' was always a highly structured, realistic, symphonic drama. I never thought of it as doing a genre piece."

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