Java Heat
After a terrorist attack rocks Indonesia and kills the country’s much beloved Sultana and her daughter is kidnapped, Jake (Lutz), a reckless American tough guy, becomes embroiled in the turmoil ensuing the attacks. Jake is bent on vengeance but quickly finds the world a more complicated place than he can solve with violence alone. Lost among labyrinths of religious, political and cultural havoc, Jake must ally with cerebral Muslim detective Hashim (rising Indonesian star Ario Bayu), who handles Jake more like a suspect than a partner. The uneasy friendship leads to a treacherous manhunt for the attack’s real instigator, a new breed of klepto-terrorist (Rourke), who is even more twisted and terrifying than the Jihadist terrorists he hides behind.
- Director
- Conor Allyn
- Writers
- Rob Allyn, Conor Allyn
- Actors
- Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke
- Genre
- Action and Adventure
- Run Time
- 1 hour 43 minutes
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A better title for "Java Heat" might have been "Java Noise," since that is mostly what this uninvolving action film produces.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 05.09.2013 -
The potential fun is all thoroughly undone, however, by an eye-roller of a script and a leaden lead performance from Twilight heartthrob Kellan Lutz.
Andrew Barker, Variety, 05.15.2013 -
The film's anthropological interest in Indonesia is the smartest thing in an otherwise familiar scramble of kidnapped babes, expensive jewelry and millions of bullets.
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 05.16.2013 -
This otherwise generic '80s-style actioner benefits from the presence of the ever-colorful Mickey Rourke as an exotic villian.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter, 05.09.2013
