RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

blkhwk41 This was certainly not a great movie or wonderful acting, but not terrible. It was entertaining, especially to me, living in Reno where some of it was filmed. Part of the crew and actors were in Reno for about 2 days. Val Kilmer was a trip along with some of the bit players. At the time I was running Security on the night shift at the Sands Hotel/Casino which owned the motel - the Rancho Sierra, on 4th Street opposite one of our towers. RPD was hired to do traffic control for a few hours on one day and Sands Security was responsible for the parking and staging of much of the time the crew was on site. Some of them did some 'partying' at a couple of our bars which provided us with interesting scenarios several times. They were given some latitude and responded fairly well. Again, not a great movie, but I gave it a 7 because it was, subjectively, watchable and due to the location.I have wished for years that IMDb would give 1/2s instead of just the 1-10, but it has not materialized...

seymourblack-1 "Kill Me Again" is a highly enjoyable action packed neo-noir thriller featuring a group of characters who are all thoroughly untrustworthy and a plot that's full of twists, double crosses and deception. This was the first movie directed by the talented John Dahl (who later made the brilliant "Red Rock West") and possibly it's for this reason that it didn't gain the box office success that it clearly merited.After Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) and Vince Miller (Michael Madsen) steal a large sum of money from a couple of mobsters, Fay takes an opportunity to hit Vince over the head with a stone and leaves him unconscious when she makes off with all the cash. Vince is a psychopathic killer and Fay is justifiably terrified of what'll happen if he catches up with her. She makes her way to Reno and there hires private investigator Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer) to help her fake her own death.Jack's life has been in turmoil since the car accident in which his wife was killed and he's also deeply in debt to a violent gang of criminals who broke one of his fingers to show that they meant business when they said that they wanted his loan repayments made on time. Jack has serious doubts about taking the job but decides to go ahead anyway because of his desperate financial problems.Jack makes a good job of faking Fay's death and even becomes the murder suspect but Fay then disappears before paying him his full fee. He decides to go after her but when Vince discovers that's she's still alive, things get desperately dangerous for Jack and he finds himself being pursued simultaneously by Vince, the police and the criminals.Joanne Whalley-Kilmer puts great energy and enthusiasm into her portrayal of the treacherous and seductive femme fatale and Val Kilmer successfully conveys the aimless and apathetic state of mind which has overtaken Jack since the tragic loss of his wife. Michael Madsen steals the show, however, as the incredibly brutal and seemingly unstoppable Vince.No-one would describe "Kill Me Again" as ground breaking but it is extremely exciting and wonderful entertainment for anyone who loves film noir.

Rick Blaine Flesh and Bone, Gigli... One could make a long list. Actor A shacks up with Actress B - and what do you know? They want to make a motion picture together!And they're almost always terrible. This one is no real exception.Madsen plays a psychopath who would scare Madsen. All Madsen basically has to do is break things and looked 'pissed'. OK, he's the guy everyone has to run from. And everyone - or at least almost everyone - has a run-in with him.Don't look for elegant plot twists here, and don't look for elegant movie-making, and don't look for great acting either - especially on the part of Kilmer who looks like he's auditioning for a high school play and doesn't know his lines.This one is as close to being worthless as you can come without being totally worthless. There is very little to buoy up this one. All things considered it's best to avoid it.Go rent Gigli instead.PS. Hey IMDb: lighten up on the censorship, OK? Nobody benefits by it. Not even the people in Tennessee.

Pepper Anne This may've started out to be a decent, if not routine desert noir which slightly models Billy Wilder's cool noir classic, Double Indemnity. Writer/Director John Dahl had already proved that even a simple noir can be quite good (see Red Rock West). A con woman (Joanne Kilmer) and her sadistic boyfriend (Michael Madsen in his standard fare) get their hands on a fairly hefty loot of $75 grand. But, along the way, the woman decides she's heading to Vegas without him, and has a plan to separate the boyfriend from his share of the money.Conveniently, a private detective (played by Val Kilmer in almost a mockery of 1930s pulp fiction) in Reno, the city in which the con woman winds up, is in dire need of a quick and easy $10 grand, which he in turn owes a bookie. As the protagonist of a noir drama, he is the usual once-innocent character who is tempted with greed and lust before redeeming himself morally (or at least as much as the viewer's sympathies will allow). The con woman shows up at his door and offers him just that, $10 grand immediately to fake her death. It doesn't look as though he buys the story about her abusive boyfriend, but of course, tainted with such foolishness, he acquiesces and falls in love with her, leaving himself open for the usual noir double- and tripple-cross among greedy characters.A simple noir with all its convenient connections, however, soon becomes too convoluted to take it seriously. Once you're to the point of the story where they're trying to fake her death, you might wonder how any of it would work, considering the plan they have is pretty ridiculous and lacks good attention to both detail and logic, even for a fictional film. Things just seem to happen so easily, and when you see the way they fake her death (along with the subsequent events) and are later supposed to believe that nearly every cop in Reno is looking for the private eye and the con woman, you wonder...what the hell kind of cops are these that this scheme worked in the first place? At this point, everything that follows just becomes too incredulous considering the events. Suddenly, despite all the conveniences that arise in the story, what started as a decent noir quickly falters.If it is desert film noir or Sin City film noir you are looking for, you're probably better off sticking with Dahl's 'Red Rock West'; it may be routine and the story a series of conveniences, but at least it pays better attention to the detail to make it all work.