This movie is the ride of the year! Michael Mann has outdone himself. He understands the whole formula of an action movie, yet it doesn’t feel formulaic. But all the elements are there: he has deep characters. He creates a continuum of bad guys, most of whom you can feel some sort of sympathy for. He has beautiful cinematography and colors and music, intensifying that grit and heat of LA—the ugly starkness of it, the anonymity of the big city. He has the dynamics worked out. This is not just a wall-to-wall blood and guts movie. There are long discussions, lots of strategy, lots of contemplation and character development as suspension builds, and a few violent outbursts here and there as it releases. It’s excellent. Go see it.