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Kill Me Later

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Kill Me Later (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 20

Fresh: 5

Rotten:15

Average Rating: 4.3/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some language

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release: Sep 14, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: Selma Blair and Max Beesley play amusingly star-crossed lovers in Dana Lustig's KILL ME LATER. Blair is Shawn, a young woman struggling with her own self-negating romantic impulses. She's involved with a selfish married man (D.W.... Selma Blair and Max Beesley play amusingly star-crossed lovers in Dana Lustig's KILL ME LATER. Blair is Shawn, a young woman struggling with her own self-negating romantic impulses. She's involved with a selfish married man (D.W. Moffett) who, completing the poor romantic choice trifecta, is also her boss. Early in the film, Shawn decides she has had enough misery. After a few suicidal gestures, she decides to take that final step and end her life. She goes to the roof of the bank where she works, and prepares to jump. But GGGGG (Beesley) is concurrently in the process of robbing the bank, and when a witness sees Shawn perched on the roof and calls the police, she inadvertently foils his plans. He takes her hostage, getting her cooperation only after he assures her that if she helps him, he'll repay her by killing her once they're free and clear. Naturally, things don't go exactly as planned. Lustig's film is a colorful burst of energy, and it features an attractive young cast. In the film's candy-coated scenes of the lovers on the run, and its temporal playfulness, it is reminiscent of Tom Tykwer's similarly fast-paced, hyper-stylish RUN LOLA RUN. [More]

Starring: Selma Blair, Max Beesley, D.W. Moffett, Brendan Fehr

Starring: Selma Blair, Max Beesley, D.W. Moffett, Brendan Fehr, Lochlyn Munro

Director: Dana Lustig

Director: Dana Lustig
Screenwriter: Annette Goliti-Gutierrez
Producer: Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike Curb, Ram Bergman, Dana Lustig
Composer: Tal Bergman, Renato Neto
Studio: 7th Art Releasing

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Emanuel Levy
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It's a good thing people finally recognized Selma Blair's talent so she could stop making movies like this.

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06/24/04
Luke Y. Thompson
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...about an hour after it's over, you'll barely remember what it was about.

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12/09/02
David Nusair
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11/19/02
Christopher Null
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A long-on-style-short-on-insight mish-mash... the filmmakers trade on credit they haven’t earned, hoping you’ll fill in the narrative gaps.

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08/27/02
Brent Simon
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
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Dana Lustig has taken a fairly heavy-handed approach, treating the material as if it were the basis of a longform music video ...

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12/21/01
Ted Murphy
Baseline.Hollywood.com
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Plausibility is a problem with this would-be-giddy antic about newfound lovers on the lam.

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12/09/01
Harry Haun
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10/08/01
Greg Muskewitz
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By the end of it, you'll wish you had just stayed home and watched Total Request Live.

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09/19/01
Ken Switzer
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Badly employing all kinds of tricks ... [Lustig] ultimately overpowers her actors and does in her own film.

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09/17/01
Kevin Maynard
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An edgy, energetic romantic thriller.

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09/14/01
Lael Loewenstein
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A small film whose virtues are probably best appreciated on tape.

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09/14/01
Maitland McDonagh
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Happily the filmmakers here are more interested in its people and their lives than in the chase that follows.

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09/14/01
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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The kind of quirky film the movie world could use more of in these days of cookie-cutter studio pictures.

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09/14/01
Kirk Honeycutt
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This predictable romance caper is utterly charmless and whiny.

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09/14/01
E! Online
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The performances in several smaller roles are so mechanical that they lend Kill Me Later the tone of a vanity production.

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09/13/01
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Screenplay gets the job done provided viewers are in the proper frame of mind to accept it as a romantic-fantasy trifle, with only the most tenuous connection to reality.

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09/13/01
Michael Tunison
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Despite the generally likable characters and the abundance of clever ideas, Lustig mucks it all up with her 'trick' editing.

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09/13/01
Andy Klein
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Film school editing only makes matters worse in a film that looks made to fit into WOR-TV's 5 p.m. midweek schedule.

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09/07/01
Harvey S. Karten
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