Review of Body Heat (1981) by Anastasia F — 07 Jun 2009
This was an impulse rent, and wow what an excellent film! A noir feel that just begins to twist about halfway through and then the floor is pulled out from under you. Sexy in that 1980 kinda way, wonderful mood to the film, a great languid summer movie.
William Hurt is exceptional. It starts out with him as the womanizing lawyer who starts a very hot affair with a young trophy wife, which develops into a plot to kill her husband so they can run off with his money.
As with all murder plots, it begins to unravel, but what makes this so great is that Hurt's character is the local defender who is best friends with the local detective and prosecutor, so as they start investigating the suspicious wife, they're telling him everything and he's in the hot seat literally, but they don't realize it yet.
Then the shit hits the fan, and then the film begins to twist on him, and suddenly the entire murder plot wasn't anything as it seemed. Highly recommended, this film is a classic. It has the perfect tone of suspense, that kind of painfully slow and relentless pressure of a hitchcock film where you just KNOW things are beyond his control and are inevitably and methodically coming apart, but it just takes this slow brooding tension as it happens.
Wonderful.
This review of Body Heat (1981) was written by Anastasia F on 07 Jun 2009.
Body Heat has generally received very positive reviews.
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