Also known as “Undercover Heat”, this is pretty standard erotic-thriller, B-movie fare. Cindy (Athena Massey) is a policewoman who, in an introductory voice-over, tells us how concerned she is about her womanhood due to how beautiful she is – apparently her beauty is so intimidating to men that she’s never had a date. That doesn’t stop her joining the police and become a well-respected detective. When a prostitute is murdered she is tasked by Sergeant Gold (Tom Tayback) to go undercover in Mrs V’s (Meg Foster) high-class bordello. Gearing herself up in the best hooker outfits she heads off to the brothel where she strikes up a relationship with bouncer Ramone (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a number of the girls. Things begin to become confused for Cindy in the bordello and she finds herself having to deal with actual clients as she begins to close in on the killer. Gregory (Dark) Hippolyte, whose approach is to keep things reasonably simple and moving in the right direction (in between pauses for cleverly staged soft focus sex romps) directs the film with a fair degree of competence. This, however, isn’t a great thriller by any stretch of the imagination but the premise of undercover cop in a highly compromising situation is well handled. Some of the dialogue is fairly risible – the following voice-over from Cindy as she tries out her newly acquired hooker outfits is priceless: "Hot pants – check! Thigh boots – check! Black lace stockings with matching thong and push up bra – check! Being a cop doesn't scare me; but being a woman does". What!?! The acting is competent enough – Athena Massey carries most of the film and is okay; Tom Tayback is fairly good and Meg 'Scary Eyes' Foster is intimidating and with her strangely hued eyes is actually quite creepy. On the whole “Undercover” is a competent enough little film, with semi-decent acting and a reasonable semblance of plot, which actually keeps you guessing about the identity of the murderer all the way to the end. ( )