Kiss or Kill Reviews
Moviehole
One of the best thrillers Australia's produced
| Original Score: 3/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Makes what is familiar seem fresh.
Full Review
| Original Score: B
Nitrate Online
A clever and lively entry from Australia than introduced the world to Frances O'Connor (A.I.).
| Original Score: 4/5
Spirituality and Practice
A fresh and fast paced Australian drama about the mystery that resides in all people.
Top CriticImagine Terrence Malick's Badlands done as black comedy, with the rural atmosphere of Psycho and dialogue rubbed against flint.
The picture's velocity, style, irreverence, unexpected playful humor and new take on the noir genre make it worth a look.
San Francisco Examiner
Kiss or Kill is, after a shaky start, surprisingly good.
If this scenario sounds like stock film-noir plotting, Bill Bennett ... makes something utterly fresh and, for all its scent of evil, invigorating out of it.
Film Journal International
It isn't the first hellbound road movie to end up on a nuclear testing site in the desert (there's always Kalifornia), but Bennett makes you feel as though you haven't seen it before.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Gives the premise a few twists that make things interesting.
A cleverly disguised whodunit -- a murder mystery that looks, feels and moves unlike another other murder mystery.
Bennett's screenplay is consistent, completely concerned with the haphazard and the jogging of conventional expectation.
I've seen countless road movies, but this one felt different, as if it had an unbalanced flywheel.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/4
In some ways, it's a remarkable recovery for writer-director Bill Bennett, whose much-tampered-with Sandra Bullock vehicle Two If by Sea was almost unwatchable.
Boxoffice Magazine
The performances are lovely, the odd characters engaging and the filmmaking interesting.
