History Film / Heat

* CoolGuns: We might as well list the roster, and see if you agree.
** Hanna and [=McCauley=]'s respective sidearms for starters; Hanna favours a Colt Officer's ACP with ivory grips, while [=McCauley=] uses a H&K USP at first, before switching to a SIG-Sauer [=P220=].
** Used in the armored car robbery:
*** Waingro carries a Star Megastar pistol, which he uses to execute the first guard.
*** Cheritto carries two guns - a Ruger [=KP90=] pistol in a crossdraw holster on his tactical vest, and an FN FAL 50.61 Paratrooper rifle as his primary weapon. He uses the latter to shoot the third guard.
*** Shiherlis carries an M733.
*** Neil uses an automatic Colt M654 to mow down the second guard.
*** Trejo carries a Norinco Type 56-1.
** In the bank robbery shootout:
*** Neil and Shiherlis are using Colt M733s. In the bank, when they have their masks on, to tell them apart, Neil has a dark black suit and Shiherlis has a gray suit.
*** Cheritto is using an IMI Galil.
*** Hanna uses a FN Herstal FNC-80.
*** Detectives Casals, Bosko and Schwartz both use [=M16A1=] assault rifles.
*** Sergeant Drucker has a Mossberg [=590=] shotgun, and later uses his Beretta sidearm after his shotgun runs out of shells.
** During the drive-in shootout:
*** Shiherlis covers [=McCauley=] from afar with an [=HK91=] fitted with a bipod.
*** Cheritto takes out the truck driver before he can get away with a Benelli M3 shotgun.
*** The assassin tries to kill [=McCauley=] with a Steyr TMP. This was notably the second appearance of that gun in any form of media - being carried by the same actor who carried it in its ''first'' ever media appearance, at that.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Hanna proves to be a top-notch marksman when [[ShootTheHostageTaker giving Cheritto a headshot]].

->''"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the [[TitleDrop heat]] around the corner."''

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] the Creator/BurtReynolds movie of the same name. Or with ''Film/TheHeat''.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Happens to [[spoiler:Chris Shiherlis']] character. [[spoiler:He's the only member of Neil's crew (other than Nate, their fence, who in the original script was supposed to get caught,) who eludes the police, but he only does so because Charlene, whom he had been having vicious marital problems with throughout the film and had been cheating on him with Marciano, warns him about Sgt. Drucker and the other policemen at their house. Chris is able to escape, but is forced to abandon his son and wife (who he just then realizes really still does love him), who were the most important things to him in the world. He is obviously devastated when she signals him that something is up and then again as he drives away from the scene.]]

* SmashCut: Done in a symbolic manner when Waingro kills a young prostitute; when Waingro lunges and grabs her hair, it smashes to a beer cap being snapped off by a bottle opener.