![]() ‘Blue Beetle’ Review: At Least It’s Better than ‘Black Adam’?Īlice is the one who connects all the various characters in ‘Kill Me.’ Among them are: Jack’s sister Lucy ( Teresa Palmer), Lucy’s dentist husband Nathan ( Sullivan Stapleton), and mechanic Dylan ( Luke Hemsworth). The phone call he gets, in the middle of firing rounds, is from bar-tending criminal Jack ( Callan Mulvey) who wants Wolfe to start keeping tabs on his wife Alice ( Alice Braga). Wolfe is an assassin-for-hire, and we first lay eyes on him as he hunts a man in the Australian outback. takes a non-linear storytelling structure to tell the tale of how Wolfe found himself nearing his maker. Wolfe is complaining because he’s apparently about to die, and “Kill Me Three Times” - divided into three chapters, called “Kill Me Once,” “Kill Me Twice,” etc. It’s the very first dialogue spoken in the film, and proves to be one of few laughs we have. ![]() “Fuck me,” says Pegg’s Charlie Wolfe in the opening voice-over, as an aerial shot of a gorgeous Australian beach comes into view. If it were funnier, perhaps the trite action and insipid characters could be excused, but it isn’t nearly funny enough for that. As it stands, they are both culprits for making “ Kill Me Three Times” feel artificial in every possible way, despite having Simon Pegg along for the ride. As our thoughts wrestle over who to chastise for this incomprehensibly cluttered picture, it can either be James MacFarland for his first screenplay or Stenders for not using the experience he has from his more compelling movies (“ Red Dog,” “ Boxing Day”) to take control of the situation. Bad, bad, BAD movie here.Here’s a suggestion for Kriv Stenders, director of the flagrantly messy “ Kill Me Three Times”: don’t be so kind to first-time screenwriters. Mad Max: Fury Road is better and it features Australians, so if you need your dose of the Australian accent, then watch Fury Road instead. Perhaps that's a little harsh to say but this is a real bad movie. Not that it's the worst film I've ever seen, but I just thought that the cast would've pooled together their resources to buy out this film and never allowed it to be shown so as to not have any ill effects on their subsequent projects or roles they may be up for. It's not even so bad that it's actually kind of funny, it's just plain bad and I can't believe this film honestly ever saw the light of day. Honestly, this is a really bad film, I realize I didn't have much to say, but this film is just a complete mess. It's just way too poorly constructed for it to have any sort of lasting effect. ![]() They're still the only decent part about this film, but they don't even do much to elevate the film that much. Like what in the fuck is this film supposed to be? What demographic is this meant actually meant for? This film takes a group of talented actors and completely wastes the ever-loving shit out of them. For what's meant to be a darkly comedic film, this film offers very little in the way of laughs, it lacks suspense and it's not dramatic. Characters don't get nearly enough time to develop so you can invest in who they are and why you should care about their goals throughout the film. Once something even remotely interesting occurs you're shipped off to a completely different scene with no rhyme or reason. I think the film pretty much cuts its own feet off with this method. Not that I think it would've been a better film if it hadn't taken this approach, but it would've felt like it had actual structure. It's not that the changes in perspective is jarring, or even that confusing, it's that it feels completely unnecessary and ruins the flow of the film. I just found that the pacing, telling the story of Alice's murder in three sequences from three different perspectives, pretty much killed any chance the film had of being good or even remotely interesting. For a movie that centers around assassination, this really is quite the lifeless experience. Solid cast aside, pretty much down what they can to salvage this, there's not much to this film that doesn't feel like you hasn't been done better by the Coens or Quentin Tarantino. This is not a particularly good film to be honest.
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