4K UHD Review – Dead Heat

1988's "Dead Heat" is a film that wants to be many things to many audiences, putting director Mark Goldblatt (the celebrated editor of "The Terminator," making his helming debut) in a difficult position of juggling tonality. It's a buddy cop story that involves elements of horror and sci-fi, also taking time to launch a few action sequences, striving to be a celebration of cinematic possibility as many genres are visited. Goldblatt doesn't have a major budget to pull off a few of the wilder ideas included in Terry Black's screenplay, but the general nutso atmosphere of the picture is enough to get it past the finish line. Goldblatt invests in monsters, body horror, and gun play, working to keep "Dead Heat" exciting enough to help distract from its storytelling and thespian shortcomings, and he's mostly successful with screen energy, creating an appealing mess of ideas and moods in search of a more defined dramatic approach. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com