Killer Heat (2024) review

Having left his woes behind in Queens, detective-turned-private investigator Nick Bali (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works in Athens where he's hired by Penelope Vardakis (Shailene Woodley) to look into the mysterious death of her brother-in-law Leo (Richard Madden), who fell off a cliff while climbing, but Bali's snooping around greatly annoys Leo's twin brother - and Penelope's husband - Elias (Madden again).  The country of Greece provides a bright and cheery backdrop, but this can't seem to do anything else correctly: there are no likeable characters (Bali's a barely-functioning alcoholic, the entire Vardakis clan is filthy rich), the "hard boiled" voice-over (for example: "I don't mind getting beat up.  There's a certain dignity in it.") is annoying and the way in which it's "wrapped up" (a fratricide followed by an unexpected filicide?) is completely bogus.  You mean to suggest that a healthy and alert mother can't tell her two children apart and apparently the only way in which they're "different" is in their love making abilities?  Does one of them have a magical knob or something?