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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... 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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08/10/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

...about an hour after it's over, you'll barely remember what it was about.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
12/09/02
David Nusair
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11/19/02
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
08/27/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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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 ...

Full Review Source: Baseline.Hollywood.com | comment Comment
12/21/01
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Baseline.Hollywood.com

Plausibility is a problem with this would-be-giddy antic about newfound lovers on the lam.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
12/09/01
Harry Haun
Harry Haun
Film Journal International

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10/08/01
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

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
Ken Switzer
Village Voice
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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
Lael Loewenstein
Variety
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A small film whose virtues are probably best appreciated on tape.

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09/14/01
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Happily the filmmakers here are more interested in its people and their lives than in the chase that follows.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/14/01
Kevin Thomas
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
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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This predictable romance caper is utterly charmless and whiny.

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09/14/01
E! Online

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
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.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
09/13/01
Michael Tunison
Michael Tunison
Boxoffice Magazine

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
Andy Klein
New Times

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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