Heat: Special Edition

What happens when a heist movie is about personal relationships instead of explosions? No, they don’t hold hands and sing “Kumbaya” over the closing credits—when it’s De Niro and Pacino, you get a damn fine flick. Over the course of three hours, Al Pacino’s cop and Robert De Niro’s robber play cat and mouse like Itchy and Scratchy and meet at a diner to talk before the epic bank shootout that’s edited into oblivion when they show it on TV. After the flick’s three-hour run time, you’ll need some Adderall to get through the rest of the two-disc set, which includes five—count ’em, five—documentaries. The best explores the police and criminals who inspired the movie—you also discover that Val Kilmer, Robert De Niro, and Tom Sizemore cased a real bank to prepare for their big heist scene—but for film geeks there’s a shot-by-shot breakdown on how they filmed the massive ending.