Alicia I love this movie so much

ThiefHott Too much of everything

Steineded How sad is this?

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

videorama-759-859391 I've never so much wanted to go across the Nullaboring in my life after seeing this. We have an impressive road movie thriller, where as an Adelaide'n here's another that has done us proud. Bill Bennett is someone who makes low budget features that I like. Here we have a romantic couple, who'm both have had bad childhoods, Francis O'connor, a victim of pedophilia, who was interfered with by a footy captain, Zipper Doyle who makes underage porno's. These con artists/thieve's, latest victim is accidentally killed or was he, when sexually lured by O'connor. So our young enterprising two end on going on the lam, with a suitcase, containing not exactly what they were after. In it is a porno, featuring Doyle and who very much looks like, O'Connor, who is quick to deny it. Kiss Or Kill is very well structured film, where as it progresses, more victims surface, after being visited by the two, but who's killing who. There are some great locations used, including a radioactive site where our too take temporary sanction, by occupants, Otto and wife. As in dining, the film too shows you the dangers of having a steamboat too close to you. Matt Day and O'Connor is especially, are good, while Haywood as a veteran cop with a heart, is what you expect, impressive as always, that dining scene, regarding the bacon I loved. We can understand why the implicated Doyle is so enraged, in his frantic need to retrieve that tape which could finish him. As to the fates of our two lamsters, it's wonderfully no where as bad, as you think it will be for them, where in these situations, there can be more light at the end of the tunnel. Cool, solid scene by scene S.A. thriller, with a haunting opening.

Beeje This film is a good example of what's bad with Australian Cinema: Blatantly imitating American Cinema, without understanding the how or why. This is a run-of-the-mill ripoff of your American killers-on-the-run road movie. They've got the usual blood and guts and gory throat slashings; That's pretty predictable in a movie I'm guessing they hoped would appeal to the American Market.Where "Kiss or Kill" fails is the characters. The leads are miserable, boring wretches. If they'd died driving their car off a cliff in the first 30 minutes, it would have been a better movie for it. The cops chasing them are, well, cops chasing them. The story is lame; killers on the run. Will the cops catch them? Who knows? Who cares? There is nothing to hold the viewer to this story.This movie came out at the same time as the mediocre "Men in Black II." I recall the Producer of "Kiss or Kill" complaining that in the face of this Hollywood Blockbuster, no one would see a poor little quality Aussie film. Well, I saw this and it was a disappointment. I did watch it through to the end, but it was tedious going. The production qualities and acting aren't bad; It's the lame story and script and uninspired direction that kills it.It's supposed to be a suspense, but for that to work you have to care. If "Silence of the Lambs" was 2 hours of nothing but blood and guts it would have bombed too. But what made that movie come alive was the characters and the script. If it was a Student Film, that could have been forgiven. But as an "Art House wannabe Blockbuster" it fails miserably.If you do like this genre, there are much better movies. 1 Star out of 4.

LtdTimeAuthor Scary, sexy, demented and loony. Film exists in a world full of sin, recrimination, stupidity, and thrills similar to those in Jim Thompson's novels.Has some unbelievable plot devices that make it hard to take it all seriously, such as the police seemingly breaking into the lovers/killer(s)-on-the-run's motel room early on, and Aussie character actor-par-excellence Barry Otto's role. Frances O'Connor is excellent as the female half of the Murphy game team - reminds me of the wild stage persona of singer/guitarist PJ Harvey.Has a similar cartoonish desert feel (a la Roadrunner or Krazy Kat) to the Coen Brothers' kidnappers-on-the-lam Raising Arizona. The constant jump cuts in the film's first half distracted me so much, I put the film on the shelf for a year, before finishing it. Glad I did.

Dennis Littrell The opening scene of this lovers on the lam, Aussie style, noire thriller is designed to arrest our attention. Mommie answers the door only to have gasoline tossed on her and lighted while her four-year-old daughter Nikki watches. This accounts for Nikki's life of crime and explains why one night she doses her lover boy with the same stuff. However she doesn't light him up; it's only an exciting little joke.Anyway, our lovers, Nikki and Al, have a little scam. They target business men at their hotels, Nikki as bait, Al to finish them off. An overdose of the mickey kills one of their victims and the lovers hit the road, chased by the cops and by a rugby legend whose pedophile video starring himself they have accidentally acquired. He has to keep THAT secret. So we have a chase for most of the movie, a kind of imitation Natural Born Killers (1994) cum Wild at Heart (1990) with some original spin and some diverting down under culture clips including the cops using sunscreen to protect the tips of their ears from skin cancer while the hole in the ozone layer grows.Francis O'Connor, who plays Nikki is a little on the ugly/sexy side, mostly ugly, but Matt Day, who plays Al, adores her as a little boy might adore his mother. His problem is a homicidal temper and a blatant disregard for human life, except his own and Nikki's. He kills whenever the opportunity presents itself, it seems. Her problem is she kinda likes killing these men.Neither one of these Aussie trash types is overly bright, but then neither are the cops.Bill Bennett's story is derivative and banal but there are some witty elements. The scene in which one of the cops pretends to be kosher is funny, and the couple living on a nuclear testing site is amusing. The leg of kangaroo and the way Nikki has to get out from under the mark's dead body are nice touches. Alas, we have the ending. Bennett had a little fun with it, but his spin comes off as stupid and in sharp contrast with what proceeded it, which was mostly realistic.Jump-cuts? It's just a mannerism. Bennett will get over it.(Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" Get it at Amazon!)