Critical Review - The Heat 2013

As part of my ongoing reflective practice, and following our lecture on the three C's of Cinematography, I have been studying and reviewing movies....from all genres, tones and styles...

This week I watched 'The Heat', which is a buddy cop comedy with Sandra Bullock and Mellisa McCarthy...

The editing is great. Very fast and the story moves along at a great pace. McCarthy has not only been given some brilliant and coarse dialogue, but her delivery and sarcasm is hilarious.

It was interesting to note that the stereotypical 'beauty' (Bullock), when portrayed as uptight and rigid, became less and less attractive as the movie progressed.

And conversely, the more McCarthy's character delivered ferocious come backs and took absolutely no nonsense from anyone, the more attractive she became...

I believe that confidence is a key factor in attractiveness.