Final Heat

Final Heat is a low budget film about a struggling fitness gym called The Hollywood Box.

Husband and wife, Cam (Brad Benedict) and Laney (Molly Cerne) believe that the only way to keep the gym open. Is to win a fitness competition where the winners go on a reality television show. It could be the only way for the gym to survive, through publicity.

They manage to get a team together to take part, only some drop out as they are not getting paid to take part. It leaves a bedraggled bunch left with Cam also having to compete.

So far this is very much an underdog story. The film then swerves into something else.

Cam is disturbed, he could not get over the death of his drug addict brother who was in the army. A close friend, Kemp could not look out for his brother. Now Kemp cannot see that Cam is also falling apart.

The melodrama is framed like a reality television show and is a clash of styles. It is jarring and does not work. It could had been a better movie if they kept it as a group of people trying to win a fitness competition.