Tom Sizemore appeared in Saving Private Ryan, Heat, Black Hawk Down and Natural Born Killers within a few years, working for Spielberg, Mann and Stone at the same time.
The Heat performance is the best, playing a crew member whose loyalty is absolute and whose judgement is not, and he holds his own in scenes with De Niro and Kilmer.
Addiction and repeated legal problems ended the mainstream career in the early 2000s, and he was open about both in a memoir.
He worked continuously in low-budget film afterward and died in 2023. The 1990s work is genuinely strong and worth separating from what followed.
Juliette LewisNatural Born Killers (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone made a satire about media appetite for violence that is itself a two-hour delivery system for violence. Tarantino wrote the story, disowned it, and asked…
Eric BanaRidley Scott's 2001 Mogadishu battle. October 1993 Somalia raid gone wrong.
Al Pacino
Adam GoldbergSteven Spielberg's WWII masterpiece. Omaha Beach opening is the best war scene ever filmed.
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