Do you want to know how to make a crime film? Do you want to know how to make it look perfect? If so, than simply pick up this special edition of Heat, watch the film, then sit back and take advantage of all the special features, because the lessons are all right there and at quite the affordable price.

Michael Mann sits firmly in my top five of favorite directors, and writers for that matter, as the man behind such films as Collateral, Heat, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider and Ali knows how to write drama, write action and make it all so believable that it is like you are right there and the bullets are whizzing right by your head.

Heat is widely recognized for two things, 1) De Niro vs. Pacino and 2) one of, if not the, best gunfights in cinematic history. With Heat Michael Mann has taken stories of true crime and turned them into an epic web of cops and robbers that was described in one of the featurettes as a modern-day Greek tragedy.

When Heat was released in 1995 it opened to critical acclaim, but I think the nearly three hour running-time and its definite flare for the evil side of people may have turned off audiences granting it only about $67 million in box-office revenues, but this one has staying power and Warner Bros. is proving it as we get a two-disc special edition with all the goodies, including five brand new featurettes that bring back everyone except for Bobby D to talk about the film.

First off, disc one contains not only the feature film but a feature length commentary with writer/director Michael Mann. Mann goes into everything in his commentary and the fact that he was not only the director, but the writer makes it that much more interesting as he is able to not only describe the shooting and direction of the scene, but the motivation behind the characters he has written. His commentary not only gives you insight into filmmaking it expands the characters and the world of Heat as you would have never thought imaginable.

Disc two is where you will find your new features as they are not your traditional making-of docs that simply have the cast babbling on about how much they liked working together. You are treated to actual footage of the actors training to fire weapons using live ammunition on a police gun range and you get insight into the inspiration for the film from the actual cop that brought down the real Nate McCauley in Chicago.

On top of that you get further looks at the shooting of the climactic scene in which McCauley (De Niro) and Hanna (Pacino) sit down for a cup of coffee as well as a tour of LA while the production designers take you to all the places where several scenes from the film where shot.

Then of course you get 11 deleted scenes as well as three theatrical trailers for the film.

This special edition is exactly what crime film lovers are looking for, not only do you get a masterful, star-studded film but you get all the special features to go along with it that carry the action over from the film to the docs.

I highly recommend this edition to anyone that either owns the originally released edition or not.