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Kill Me Later *½

by Ed Gonzalez on September 6, 2001 Jump to Comments (0) or Add Your Own

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There's a scene in Dana Lustig's Kill Me Later where Shawn (a perpetually morbid Selma Blair) contemplates suicide during a drunken stupor on the roof of her office building. Curiously, the bank is being robbed by pinup-robber Charlie (Max Beesley) at precisely the same time. When they butt heads, he turns the girl's "way out" into a "help me now and I'll kill you later" hostage agreement. This shrill romantic romp bears a striking resemblance to The Princess and the Warrior and that ham-fisted Collective Soul video with the guy and the pigeons. Shawn falls for her British kidnapper, cracks a smile and leaves her suicidal tendencies behind when she bumps into a coffin being hoisted into a hearse. Blair and Beesley are nice to look at but Kill Me Later goes nowhere. Lustig's pointless over-reliance on slow-mo, screwy time-lapses and fades-to-blue does little to obscure what is little more than one spiritless Gen X whine.

Director(s): Dana Lustig
Screenplay: Annette Goliti Gutierrez, Dana Lustig
Cast: Selma Blair, Max Beesley, Brendan Fehr, Lochlyn Munro, O'Neal Compton
Distributor: Lions Gate Films
Runtime: 89 min.
Rating: R
Year: 2001