Not a wasted shot and your television will sweat from all the heat generated. Like Scorsese in Goodfellas or Huston in the Maltese Falcon Kasdan's directing is obviously very good yet his tricks remain hidden from view. Like the best noir you are too involved to even begin to try to guess the next twist and turn. This is a movie that really brings some new things to the table as it does some old things very well indeed. His then unknown actors William Hurt and Kathleen Turner are pitch perfect. (His next film was The Big Chill so this is one guy hard to pigeonhole) He both updates and in many ways upgrades the noir of the past.īy setting the movie in a Podunk Florida town he invokes John D Macdonald the way no Macdonald movie treatment has successfully done. Writer Lawrence Kasdan had just penned Raiders of the Lost Ark and Empire Strikes Back so it is a surprise he chooses noir for his first directing outing. Despite a hundred direct to video takes on the same story (six of them with the exact same title) the movie still works. Kramer certainly isn't the shocking eye opener it once was.īody Heat should suffer the same fate. After hundreds of copy cats Alien isn't as effective as when it first came out. Body Heat: 9 out of 10: Many successful movies lose their ability to shock over the years.
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