>From what I understand, Heat was a virtual remake of
a made for TV
>movie/potential series pilot Michael Mann had made
several years
>earlier, not too long after Miami Vice. Supposedly,
critics dismissed
>it as "LA VIce." I haven't seen the earlier one, but
Film Threat once
>did a comparison that seemed pretty
convincing.
I've seen L.A. Takedown, the earlier version of Heat,
and in fact have a copy on video. It's obviously shorter, as
it had to accomodate commercial breaks within a two hour
format, while Heat had no such constraints. A lot of the set
pieces are expanded in the feature version, and the Val
Kilmer/Ashley Judd subplot is entirely new.
Picture works very well in the shorter version. Scott
Plank in the Pacino role is actually more interesting, for my
money. Character actor Xander Berkeley plays a pivotal bad
guy in the first version, and makes a cameo in a different
role in the second.
John Lau
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