30 Best Movie Remakes (and Reboots) of the Past 30 Years
Hollywood may be in love with remakes, but critics don't usually share those warm feelings. Nevertheless, revisiting an old property can sometimes prove fruitful, and not just commercially. In the gallery above, you'll find the best-reviewed remakes and franchise reboots of the past three decades, ranked by Metascore. (Note that a movie must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible.)
Original: L.A. Takedown (1989), directed by Michael Mann
It's hard to believe that a different decision by a television network executive in the late 1980s could have denied movie fans a chance to see Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face off on the big screen. When NBC wanted Miami Vice creator Michael Mann to develop another series for the network, he turned to a script that he first began working on in the late 1970s. NBC passed on the L.A.-set crime series, but aired the pilot as a (fairly unimpressive) television movie in 1989, with Scott Plank and Alex McArthur in the lead roles.
It's amazing what a little money (and a lot more star power) can do. Unhappy with the original outcome, Mann returned to the same material in 1995 for a theatrical remake (retitled as Heat), and the rest is cinema history. Though they had both appeared in The Godfather: Part II, Pacino and De Niro had never acted in a scene together until their restaurant meeting in Heat.
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