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‘Killer Heat’ Review: Okay Greek-Island Noir, With Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in the Tale of a Murderous Love Triangle
It's adapted from a Jo Nesbø story but plays like a mirage of love-and-murder noirs you've seen before.
“Killer Heat” opens with the voice of its star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt(who has a way of sounding like Keanu Reeves’ brainier brother), delivering one of those logy “hardboiled” philosophical nuggets to the audience ( “The Icarus myth was set on the island of Crete. But just as you’re ready to nod out, Gordon-Levitt, as a private investigator named Nick Bali in a hipster island fedora, meets Shailene Woodley, as the wealthy trapped wife of a shipping-company CEO based in Crete. “Killer Heat” is based on “The Jealousy Man,” a short story by the hugely popular Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø, and whatever intrigue it had on the page has been largely tamped down by the movie, in which the unraveling of twists feels more like the connecting of dots.
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