Film Review – High Heat

Writer James Pedersen (making his debut) offers a small-scale battle to the death with “High Heat,” taking viewers into a fancy restaurant where trouble develops for the main characters after hours. Pedersen creates a community of fractured personalities and arranges some itchy relationships to manage, working to build a sense of history and antagonism to best launch this milder action endeavor, which is something along the lines of “Die Hard” in a kitchen. There’s a sense of humor to keep the feature approachable, and while the screenplay struggles with the demands of exposition, Pedersen is putting in more of an effort than what’s typically offered for the genre, while director Zach Golden (“The Escape of Prisoner 614”) aims to maintain some momentum to the film, creating a few lively sequences of violence and intimidation, and he knows to keep the picture as short as possible. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com