Confused by the Killer Heat movie on Amazon Prime? Read this anaylis of the Killer Heat plot summary and ending explained for the Shailene Woodley movie.
Killer Heat on Amazon Prime Video is a new murder mystery movie that likely won’t be difficult for viewers to solve.
The Prime original movie, which began streaming today, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, and Richard Madden. Directed by Philippe Lacôte, and written by Roberto Bentivegna and Matt Charman, the film is based on a short story called “The Jealousy Man,” written by best-selling Norwegian author, Jo Nesbø. In the movie, the story takes place on a remote Greek island, and the movie was filmed on the Greek island of Crete.
Despite the well-known cast, Killer Heat received little to no promotion before it snuck onto Prime Video. But no doubt fans of all three lead actors will be drawn to watch the movie on Amazon.
It won’t take a genius to solve this case, but if you aren’t paying attention, you may miss some details. Don’t worry, Decider is here for you. Read on for a full breakdown of the Killer Heat plot summary and the Killer Heat ending explained.
Nick Bali (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a private investigator who’s been hired by a Greek woman, Penelope Vardakis (Shailene Woodely), to investigate the death of her brother-in-law, Leo Vardakis (Richard Madden). The official police story is that Leo fell while “free solo” climbing up a cliffside, but Penelope doesn’t buy it.
Penelope’s husband, Elias Vardakis (also Madden), is Leo’s identical twin brother, and also enjoys free solo rock climbing. Elias is the CEO of a big shipping company in Greece, and he was always the golden child compared to his brother, Leo. He even stole Penelope from Leo—back in school, Leo had a crush on Penelope, first. Can you see where this is going yet?
Nick apparently can’t! Nick pretends to be working for the Greek version of the CIA, and tells Elias that the agency sent him, an American, because of Elias’s company’s American investors. He interrogates Elias about his relationship to his brother, and discovers that the two had a fight, and that the brothers are “monozygotic twins,” meaning they have identical DNA. Surely you know where this going now, right?
During his investigation, Nick befriends a local cop, Georges (Babou Ceesay), who also suspects something is up and is one of the few people willing to take on the powerful Vardakis family. Nick and Georges note that in the autopsy of Leo, he had broken fingers.
