There’s plenty of action in the final act of Heat 2, which is both a prequel and a sequel in novel form to the exciting 1995 cops-and-robbers movie.
We should not be that surprised when accomplished film directors end up writing good books. Directors must be jacks of all trades and the best ones write and edit well. Francois Truffaut, Nora Ephron, Woody Allen, Derek Jarman, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Werner Herzog have all written excellent books.is a deft and ingenious addition to this niche genre. Co-written with Edgar Award-winning novelist Meg Gardiner, it takes the, by which I mean it is both a prequel and a sequel to the original film.
was an exciting cops and robbers story that dared to give equal billing to the cops and their families and the robbers and their families. The leads, LA Robbery-Homicide Detective Lt Vincent Hanna and his brilliant criminal nemesis, Neil McCauley, were played by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, but the cast was deep and the supporting characters rich.
The book opens the day after the climactic events of the film with Hanna and his team chasing down the remaining members of McCauley’s crew. As Mike Nichols actually showed us in, it is always fascinating to see what happens after a traditional Hollywood ending and there’s a great scene inwhen Hanna goes to McCauley’s sterile home and takes in the empty, melancholy life of the man he has just killed.then flashes back to 1988 with McCauley preparing for his latest job.
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