Corrected entry: In the scene where De Niro is waiting inside a station wagon at the drive-in movie, a white Dodge Ram pulls into the lot with money for the stolen bonds. De Niro told Van Zandt to send only one person. As the Dodge drives towards De Niro, it passes the snack stand where Val Kilmer is perched upon armed with a high power rifle. As the scene progresses, the second man in the bed slowly gets out to shoot De Niro. If you look closely at the tailgate of the truck, you will see it is one of those rubber net air gates which you can see through. As the truck passed by the snack stand, how could Val Kilmer have missed the second man in the bed of the truck?
Phil C.
3rd Jan 2003
Heat (1995)
27th Aug 2001
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: After the big LA shootout, as the fat guy tries to escape, he falls in a fountain. When he next picks up the young girl as a hostage, his suit is completely dry. When dead on the ground, it is wet again.
Correction: Cheritto's suit doesn't show water very well, but even so you can see that his pantlegs and the lapels of his suit jacket are several shades darker after his unintentional dip. They do not once shift back to the light gray that they were before he fell.
27th Aug 2001
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: The millions they stole, even in $100 bills, would be too bulky to fit in the duffel bags they ran off with.
Correction: Think again. A million dollars in $100 bills will fit rather neatly into a pile 8" by 6" by 13", or a 5' attache case (see http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html for a demonstration). Roughly four million could therefore fit easily into each duffel bag, and there are three duffel bags, one each carried by Neil, Chris and Michael - totalling approximately twelve million as per Kelso's estimate.
27th Aug 2003
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: When De Niro, Sizemore, and Kilmer are trying to get away from the police after their bank robbery in downtown LA, the tires of their car get shot out by Sgt. Drucker. He uses a 12 gauge shotgun. If you take into account the distance between Sgt. Drucker and the car (there's a cutscene) and how the pellets of a 12 gauge shell disperse after discharge, it is nearly impossible to shoot out a tire of a car like it's done in the movie.
Correction: Sgt. Drucker is not the only one firing at the car at that time - there are dozens of cops, on both sides of the street, at many different distances, using many different weapons. There's so much lead flying it's impossible to identify who holed the tires.
Given that we see the tire explode immediately after Drucker fires, it's clear the audience is supposed to take away that Drucker was the one who shot it out. The mistake entry is valid.
4th Dec 2002
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: When Vincent Hannah (Al Pacino) and his men are to arrest the lover of Val Kilmer's wife, this guy, shot several times alternately with Al Pacino, has his tie done in quite different ways, althought he never touches it.
Correction: If this is referring to Alan Marciano, his tie is cinched neatly around his neck when Hanna bursts into the office. After Vincent grabs him by the neck and throws him face down on the desk, then yanks him back into his seat, the tie is naturally skewed to one side. It remains skewed to the side for the remainder of the scene.
8th Sep 2003
Heat (1995)
Corrected entry: Pacino arrives at various crime scenes throughout the movie, and gets let through the police tape by a patrol cop without him having to flash his badge. Maybe they've been made aware of Pacino's imminent arrival. When De Niro is running away into the airfield near the end of the movie, and Pacino giving chase, he grabs a shotgun out of a cops arms as he runs, simply saying "Gimme that shotgun." To this the cop just answers "Yes, Sir." The patrol cars have only just arrived at the hotel after the Waingro shooting, so how would one of those cops know who the guy grabbing his shotgun was?
Correction: The LAPD does not have so many members that none of the cops in the force would ever recognize each other by sight. Consider also that Vincent, as a police lieutenant with many years on the force, and known to spend nearly all of his time at work, would probably be fairly well known within the LAPD. Many characters frequently greet him by name without him introducing himself. They recognize him; why shouldn't the cop with the shotgun, or the one by the police tape?
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Correction: Look at the wide shot of the drive-in when the truck enters. The driver doesn't "pass by" the snack stand, but rather takes a very roundabout direction to get to Neil's car. You can see that only the right side of the truck (and, as it pulls up alongside Neil's car, the nose of the truck) would be visible to someone on the roof; the truck bed itself is not visible from that low angle because the truck is too far away.
Phil C.