- Starring: Ario Bayu, Frans Tumbuan, Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke, Mike Duncan, Mike Muliadro, Nick McKinless, Rudy Wowor, Tio Pakusodewo, Verdi Solaiman
- Summary: An American in Indonesia teams up with a Muslim cop to track down a terrorist.
- Director: Conor Allyn
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 8
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Mixed: 5 out of 8
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Negative: 3 out of 8
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60Speaking his (Rourke) lines in an unintelligible accent that occasionally requires subtitles and wearing a white suit that never seems to get bloody even when he’s stabbing people to death, the actor brings an undeniably fascinating strangeness to the otherwise familiar proceedings.
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58Unfortunately, Java Heat is also an action movie for people who don’t mind clichéd plotting, lame dialogue, and the low-wattage charisma of third-string Twilight heartthrob Kellan Lutz.
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50The film's anthropological interest in Indonesia is the smartest thing in an otherwise familiar scramble of kidnapped babes, expensive jewelry and millions of bullets.
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40Java Heat's title refers not to hot coffee but to the Indonesian island, though caffeine is certainly recommended to make it through this tepid buddy-cop action flick.
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30The film, directed by Conor Allyn, is rarely more than a few minutes away from a gun battle or a tedious chase, and soon you cease to care who is shooting at, or running from, whom or why.
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25The terrorism thriller Java Heat sure is violent. I don’t even want to tell you how viciously Mickey Rourke mangles the French accent he’s trying to do.
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20It would be nice to say that Rourke, at least, offers a reason to see this junky thriller, about an American agent who gets involved in an Indonesian terrorist plot. But as entertaining as it is to watch him adopt a strange accent and swan around in sarongs as an eccentric jewel thief, it’s also a little depressing. The paycheck cannot possibly be worth it.
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Positive: 0 out of
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