theriverjordan’s review published on Letterboxd:
Where Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity” shocked the skin with its naked iciness, Lawrence Kasdan’s riff on the source material seeps sweat from every pore.
“Body Heat” is an aria of excess and wanton hedonism.
Its leads, played in breakout roles by William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, should be thriving in their tropical Florida paradise. Instead - they allow the burning desire for more to overtake all sense and reason.
Stacked up against “Indemnity,” and Italian director Luchino Visconti’s neorealist adaption of the story, “Ossessione,” the sins of “Body Heat” seem the most searingly egregious.
Hurt and Turner go about their ills with such little concern for anything but their own fulfillment of lust, that the viewers themselves are dragged down to their level of degradation. The central crime itself is given barely any weight of moral consequence in comparison to the sexual conquests surrounding it.
It’s only when Ted Danson’s blithe best friend to Hurt literally tap dances around murder… that the bite of the cold bloodedness begins to prickle through the corporeal fervour.
But by then — we are all soaked through to the soul with the sweat of our sins.
Sweaty Dudes Cinema: Sweat without shame or morals. Absolutely the most deliciously disgusting aromatic variety.
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