Driving by their deep love for Matty Walker, a young beautiful married woman, who has met in Florida, Ned Racine, a young handsome and smart lawyer, who in order to get Matty, has made his mind, in order to kill her rich husband who stands in their way, but incidents come to climax when he prepares for murdering him.
Though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir.
Amusing as this may be, there's something a bit studious about "Body Heat." Kasdan's ceiling fans and Venetian blinds often come across as film school affectations.
While Body Heat involves murder, fraud, a weak hero led astray and a seductive, double-dealing broad, it also incorporates something new: a sexual explicitness that the old films could only hint at.
Movie Metropolis
October 20, 2006
...builds slowly, then grabs you and never lets go.
