High Heat
                                                                              

Director: Zach Golden
Year: 2022
Rating: 6.5

She is going to need a bigger freezer. This won me over with its dead-pan humor and the dead killed with a pan. There is a ton of girls with guns action, but there is a light sweetness to it. Friendship and fidelity survive among the high body count. Olga Kurylenko once again rules the roost of straight to cable action films. She keeps making them and I keep watching them. This is simple. One night. One location. Many dead.



She is a chef. Of French cuisine. It is opening night of the restaurant owned by her and her husband played by a wry Don Johnson. It goes well until two mobsters walk in and tell the husband that Dom (Dallas Page) wants to see him. It is never good news when a guy named Dom wants to see you. Unknown to Olga, her husband owes Dom over a million dollars. He has come to collect. You don't have it. Well, let's burn your restaurant down and collect the insurance. And they send in two men with gasoline. They end up dead stored in the freezer. Turns out the chef is ex-KGB and she really wants to cook. Dom sends for more men and then more. Like cockroaches, they go in but don't come out. She sends for a KGB friend (Kaitlin Doubleday) who comes with her husband and twin girls. And guns. To either kill Olga for deserting the KGB or to save her. Good fun.