Hot Target

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Hot Target  has been described as an inferior English imitation of Body Heat.I felt the story in Hot Target was one which was much closer to real life as most people experience it - making it a film many viewers may find more meaningful and remember longer. 90% of paperback books listed as crime thrillers are about premeditated murders which, thank heaven, almost certainly constitute less than 10% of the serious crimes committed. The same goes for films, most viewers will never carefully plan and commit a murder and this makes it harder for them to identify with the characters in Body Heat. In Hot Target we have a wife who feels suffocated by life with an overbearing husband,and is therefore a relatively easy prey for the confidence trickster who seduces her in order to take impressions from her house keys whilst she is in the bathroom. Neither of them has any killer urge and this makes it easier to become involved in the story which seems closer to real life than to a lurid paperback novel.

Simone Griffith, the main character

Some would confirm that the performances by Simone Griffeth, Steve Marachuk & Bryan Marshall all leaded to a good acting pattern, almost believable as if you could have the chance of living the story being told. 


Exploitation? Sexploitation? well, the nudity is average for this kind of erotic drama films made in the 80's, and I would not consider it as exploitive, since every nude/sex scene fit with the plot line of an unsatisfied woman willing for more. For instance during a tryst in a secluded spot at a cricket match, a nipple shot lasting about one second served to show the couple were not discussing the finer points of England's national game. The nudity could probably have been dispensed with, but it contributed to the story so why should it have been? Some may not have been happy with this film's conventional aspect ratio, but all things considered I felt it was a competently made and enjoyable film.

More high class acting

The almighty IMDb rates this movie with 5 stars as average, and for such a B movie that is a very good rating. Anyways, there are thousands of movies dealing more succesfully with the plot line, but of course that's why we love the B movies genre, who wants to watch hollywood holy cows all the time??


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