Killer Heat

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Christian K Some hilariously poor neo-noir detective narration that really take you out of it. The script is bad, its like a below average weekly serialized PI plot. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/19/24 Full Review Carolyne K So Killer Heat It was a good movie A new one on Amazon Prime and it had Shailene Woodly who is a born actress in my humble opinion. Well she is also just the most natural beauty I think I've seen I really like he Anyway, even for that fact I was a little hesitant to watch this film because for the title screen photo she is depicted in a red one piece swimsuit with her hands up behind her head putting her hair in a pony tail and I just thought that kind of strange I don't know but the other day when we were trying to work on moving out of the apartment still and I had gotten (..moving and new puppy... Well to shake things off I decided I would just sit down and watch a full length movie and this one just popped up on the streaming list and so I clicked on it. (Long story short) Okay so..... So, there are these two guys who are each trying to figure out this case. One's a police man the other an investigator who's also a drunk because his wife decided and left him well the two of them are trying to enable this girl who hired them to leave her husband in the end, but they aren't knowing that yet, well. thy at least need to get to the bottom of the case for their own sakes. The police officer who really cares about his whole town and community and was really invested in the case but was about to quit because the rest of the police force deemed the case was closed and that the death was an accident due due to it being what it was, And that was death by falling from a cliff, though the man who died was an expert climer. He had been climbing that cliff face since he was a boy with his twin brother. Their dad was the owner of a major shipping, and trade company and he taught them how to climb to prepare them for the cut_throat nature of the business world. The investigation thinks that the girl's husband who was the twin of the guy that died did it somehow because he spoke to him and he seemed better about it. I just want to go into a different part of the plot though, the kind of instant brotherly bond that was developed between the investigator guy who is a drunk and the policeman who is breaking orders by working on the case after it was closed. Both of them are with some internal moral dilemma due to sincere human emotions. The investigator drinks because he's sad that his wife left him with their daughter and the policeman is breaking the rules because he really hates how bad and corrupt this rich mogul family is. I don't know that either guy is completely faultless though. They depict the investigator's wife as being very unhappy in flashback moments. She was talking with other guys on the phone for love since he always seemed pre-occupied with his job to to anything to make her happy and to fix their marriage There's other aspects too, that make the moral dillemma muddled like how she taunts him by going out by herself and looking sexy... creating in him a feeling of jealousy and possessiveness that he admits to actually driving him and making him better at his job . The story behind the policeman is a little more vague, but it is easy to tell I think that even though he cares very much for his citizens that he works to protect that he is not actually a born citizen of those people Though he could be an African refugee and because the people, or that country (it takes place in Greece) gave him opportunity he wants to keep that opportunity available for future immigrants. Also, this mogul family is not all Greek either they are half British, but like to pretend they are full Greek... The father who was Greek died just before the son so the investigator thinks that there is a good chance that the brother killed his own twin for to be the heir to the company Now, on to the "mini plot" .... Killer Heat The Car Scene (before the shootout) The Investigator Nick Bali and the police man George Mensah (Played by Joseph Gordan-Levitt and Babon Creasy) sit in George's car at a big shipping yard at night waiting for a particular boat to arrive that is evidence of something for the case. George's dog sits trustingly in the backseat. The car is not an obvious police car, but more like a classic older car with a sort of vintage look to it. The chance that the boat actually arrives maybe seems second to none because the two men are seemingly not too anxious, or rather to break the ice of anticipation they start to joke about something in a kind of friendly way or in a kind of a dry manner also. Now, I wouldn't have thought much about the deeper meaning of their joking if it wasn't all that I'd felt I was left with to ponder closely at the end of the film. You see, even though there was more than one mystery to solve for the investigator at the end, still, it was more like his mission rather than ours (the viewer). The fact that this movie is much subtler and nuanced that the gratification is not given so easily, but is stretched out and challenged makes it less of a sensation than most murder mystery dramas out there. I would argue that this movie or film is much deeper than what meets the eye... and just like how Shailene Woodley's character, Penelope sent the investigator to stay in a convent proves that this film is about a much wider social and personal moral dillemma. The writer's choice to make this simple scene about two men laughing about something seemingly benign and uncanny, right before a shootout is not just about bringing a more gripping stark contrast to the scenes... It's about I think the moral dillemna between a family of origin when it comes to blood and a chosen family where loyalties lie. Also the joke hints at some kind of linguistic coding to do with the word "yard." Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/18/24 Full Review nick s Perhaps if I was trapped in a cinema seat I would have suffered it and seen the ending. But I wasn't, and the first half of the movie was such a dull talk fest I couldn't hack it. The themes were cliché: the broken down PI with a drinking problem, twins as a plot divice... etc,etc. I also thought the script was awful. Every character interaction felt forced and unnatural. It would have been a lot more watchable with a professional script writer at the helm. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/10/24 Full Review Tiffany M Unintelligent, predictable, flawed, boring. A child could have written more interesting dialogue. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/02/24 Full Review Audience Member Much better than other reviews would suggest. Definitely worth a watch if a murder mystery involving a rich family is ur kind of thing. Also a bonus twist at the end… Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/28/24 Full Review D L Crazy. The detective solves the mystery, which is. the chick seduces brother in law and gets him to kill her husband and then she, basically, kills the bro in law. But the detective lets her go and they paint her as one of the good guys. she gets away with murder and also the Detective’s partner gets killed because of her games and he just lets her Go! WTF!! They paint the two murder victims as the bad guys and the murderess as the good girl! Makes no sense whatsoever! She cheats on and kills her husband. Hires a detective, gets his partner killed and then gets the guy she has sex with killed. And then she gets off scott free. I can’t wrap my head around it. She’s a devious, cheating , lying murderer but she’s a good girl because they were mean and she’s pretty. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/28/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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