"The Heat" Review By Tom Kembery
The Heat
Directed by Paul Feig
Starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy
Rated R
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Words: Tom Kembery
There is only one reason to go and see "The Heat" and that is Melissa McCarthy (playing Shannon Mullins) who shot to fame a few summers back in the hit movie "Bridesmaids". While earlier this year, the actress scored an equally big hit with the one-note "Identity Thief "(totally LOL). We first meet Mullins in the opening scene, where she captures a drug dealer after throwing a water mellon at him and keeps us laughing throughout the whole feature!
"The Heat" sees McCarthy play a balls-deep, kick-ass Boston cop who will let no one stand in her way, including Sandra Bullock, playing Sarah Ashburn. Ashburn is a socially inept FBI agent with her eyes on a big job promotion, but has to join forces with Mullins to take down a mysterious drug lord and clean up the street of Boston! (Maybe they should have set it in Chicago!)
The unlikely pair of detectives foil each other perfectly. Each has her own idiosyncrasies: Sarah Ashburn (Bullock), desperate for a warm body to keep her company, “borrows” her neighbour’s cat from time to time; Mullins (McCarthy) keeps her armoury in her fridge to scare off neighbours who might otherwise try to break into her run-down apartment.
After a totally hilarious bar scene, the movie follows the detectives working their way through the Boston scum, which involves an "Im-going-to-shoot-your-balls-off" style integration from Mullins while Ashburn's opts for the handbook style approach.
One of the best scenes in 'The Heat" has to be where Ashburn unwisely tries to perform a blood spurting emergency tracheotomy after a casual diner in a cafe starts to choke and totally fucks its up! And later on in the movie, don't miss the cringe-worthy scene involving an oyster-shucking knife stuck in Ashburn’s thigh... It's a beauty!
This fast-moving, all-singing and dancing, shooting, blowing up, good cop/bad cop action packed movie is a must see summer flick! Albeit with a lot of swearing…there is fuck, shit and everything! Definitely not for the faint-hearted… And the supporting characters are also fantastic, especially the Mullins family, whose mother caught my attention with her finger actions!
This movie had me laughing my head off! So go grab your popcorn, hot dog and a beer!
Tom Kembery rates this movie 10/10
