Synopsis
An American in Indonesia teams up with a Muslim cop to track down a terrorist.
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Cast
- Kellan LutzJake Travers
- Mickey RourkeMalik
- Ario BayuHashim
- Tio PakusadewoVizier
- Atiqah HasiholanSultana
- Verdi SolaimanLing
- Rahayu SaraswatiNita
- Mike DuncanCaptain Baron
- Agung UdijanaAndi
- Rio DewantoAnton
Recommendations
- 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Speaking 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. - 58
The A.V. Club
Unfortunately, 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. - 50
Slant Magazine
A middling genre movie, but it's oddly likable for its conflicted, unresolved tension. - 50
Los Angeles Times
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. - 40
Village Voice
Java 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. - 30
The New York Times
The 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. - 25
New York Post
The 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. - 20
New York Daily News
It 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.
