Tuesday 20 January 2015

The Heat (2013) 7/10

Starring : Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demian Bichir, Marlon Wayans
Director : Paul Feig
Running Time : 113 mins

In order to be considered for a promotion, uptight and ambitious FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) is forced to team up with angry unorthodox detective Shannon Mullins (McCarthy). The two instantly take a disliking to each-other, but are forced to work together in order to take down a mysterious drug lord that no-one has ever seen, known only as Larkin.

Bullock feels like she prepared to appear in Miss Congeniality in this hit and miss buddy-cop comedy. McCarthy’s character is so over the top it becomes harder and harder to believe she hadn’t been kicked off the force years earlier, and although the plotline makes reasonable sense, this could have been a whole lot better if there were actual clues for the cops to follow rather than what feels like increasingly dumb luck.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Other Guys



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