Three Kinds of Heat is a 1987 British–American[3] crime comedy film written and directed by Leslie Stevens and starring Robert Ginty, Victoria Barrett, Shakti Chen and Sylvester McCoy.

The story concerns two rival policewomen from New York (Barrett) and Hong Kong (Chen), who are enlisted by a State Department agent (Ginty) to investigate a mysterious criminal's international operations on behalf of Interpol.

Airport cop Terry O'Shea intervenes, but she butts heads with Major Shan, a Hong Kong police officer who was tailing the gangsters, over matters of jurisdiction.

[14] Joe Kane, the New York Daily News' resident genre columnist, found that "the embattled Cannon Group fires another blank with Three Kinds of Heat", calling it "slow paced" and "listless", although he enjoyed Shakti's performance.

[23] Terry Lawson of the Dayton Daily News opined that "everything about it is inept and/or lackluster, beginning with the needlessly complicated script, and moving right through sloppy editing, sub-par cinematography and performances that suggest the actors could not care less about what they are doing.

"[17] Mike Weatherford of the Kansas City Star concurred, writing that "the latest grist from the Cannon Film Group is a lukewarm action yarn that is as confusing and unfocused as its cryptic title.

[22] Jonathan Wilson of the Cambridge Evening News dismissed it as "ill thought-out, poorly scripted tosh" and added that "all the stars are less than convincing", criticizing the decision to keep Shakti in her flashy uniform at all times during a secret mission.