![]() A pretentious throwback to those nineteen-forties film- noirs, particularly Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body Heat, which Kasdan wrote and directed (he's making his debut doing the latter), boasts some spectacular supporting performances and first-rate atmospheric lighting, but the story and main characters are strictly second-rate - egregrious elements of such plasticity it's amazing they managed to stick to the celluloid. Of course, we don't mind overlength if the product is slightly flawed yet tasty, but here it's considerably flawed and pasty. ![]() ![]() Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat runs seven minutes shy of the two-hour mark, and, with its insubstantial screenplay and languid direction, it's easily a half-hour too long. Well, it's got the nudity and sex and tawdriness, but little of the tension and suspense and surprises one expects from a noir.
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