8 Movie Villains Whose Punishments Were Far Too Severe
2. Neil McCauley (Heat)
Heat protagonist Neil McCauley is no more a pillar of society than the next career criminal, but are anyone's hands clean in this film?
It was easy to root for Robert De Niro's charming, professional thief over the loose canon of a police officer who pursues him throughout the movie.
Fiercely loyal to his crew with tragedy in his past, McCauley didn't deserve to be shot dead, regardless of whether all of the loose ends in his life were tied up.
Perhaps the biggest insult of all was that Al Pacino's obsessive, overzealous Lt. Vincent Hanna took him down.