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When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant, Ana, a chef with a meticulous past, defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in and out of the kitchen. When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant, Ana, a chef with a meticulous past, defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in and out of the kitchen. When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant, Ana, a chef with a meticulous past, defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in and out of the kitchen.
- Zach Golden
- James Pedersen
- Olga Kurylenko
- Don Johnson
- Dallas Page
- 44 User reviews
- 23 Critic reviews
- 1 nomination
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Right ingredients, wrong proportions, and not thoroughly cooked.
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- December 16, 2022 (United States)
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- Yale Productions
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- Buffalo 8 Productions
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The grand opening is well on its way to being a smashing success until the arrival of Mick (Ivan Martin), the underachieving and overcompensating son of Dom (Dallas Page), a gangster who invested in Ray’s earlier restaurant ventures, none of which turned a profit. This time out, Dom has devised a plot to ensure a quick return on the $1.3 million he loaned Ray to finance Etoile Rouge — i.e., burning the place down for insurance money.
Rest assured, however: There are several good laughs between (and, quite often, during) the bursts of rough stuff. Dom makes little secret of his profound disappointment in his son — “This wasn’t supposed to be difficult, Mick! That’s why I sent you to take care of it!” — and must choke back his fury while negotiating overtime rates with the leader of freelance assassins. Even as they ward off repeated assaults on their restaurant, Ana and Ray find time to squabble like a conventional married couple. She: “No wonder you’ve been divorced twice!” He: “That’s a little below the belt, don’t you think?” Even so, Ray insists that, for all his failings, he will stand by his woman. And their restaurant. “Sixty-five percent of waitstaff quit during their shift,” he says. “I’m not going to be one of them.”
And speaking of married couples: The funniest of the funny business comes courtesy of Mimi (Kaitlin Doubleday), Ana’s deadly frenemy from her KGB days, and Tom (Chris Diamantopoulos), a lethally proficient sniper and amazingly patient husband. They bring along their “Shining”-spooky twin daughters (Bianca D’Ambrosio, Chiara D’Ambrosio) when they venture to the Etoile Rouge to reinforce and/or kill Ana because, the last time they left the girls home alone, they threw an unsupervised party.
It would be unfair to reveal how things turn out for any of the aforementioned folks — or for Gary (Jackie Long), an ace masseuse who’s understandably rattled while caught in the crossfire. So let’s leave it like this: “High Heat” is a movie in which practically everyone gets exactly what’s coming to them. Well, with the possible exception of someone who makes a churlish remark about the conspicuous age difference between Ana and Ray. That person gets off easy, relatively speaking.
Reviewed online, Dec. 14, 2022. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 84 MIN.
- Production: A Saban Films release of a Yale Prods. production in association with Bondit Media Capitol, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology, LB Entertainment and Bee Hive Prods. Producers: Zola Elgart Glassman, Jesse Korman, Jordan Beckerman, Jordan Yale Levine. Executive producers: William V. Bromiley, Shanan Becker, Jonathan Saba, Ness Saban, Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Joe Listhaus, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, Gregory Ruden, Anne B. Ruden, Stephen Braun, Michael J. Rothstein, Jason Kringstein, Scott Levenson, Stephen Katzman, Lisa D’Ambrosio, Brian M. Cohen, Lee Broda, Tyler W. Konney, Lucky 13 Prods., Nicole Delmonico.
- Crew: Director: Zach Golden. Screenplay: James Pedersen. Camera: Adam Lee. Editor: Dawson Taylor. Music: Max Di Carlo.
- With: Olga Kurylenko, Don Johnson, Dallas Page, Dylan Flashner, Ivan Martin, Chris Diamantopoulos, Kaitlin Doubleday, Jackie Long, Bianca D'Ambrosio, Chiara D'Ambrosio.
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