Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Winifred
The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Haven Kaycee
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
Cheryl
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
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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.
david-sarkies
The cool thing about this movie is that it was made in South Australia in my friend's hometown of Ceduna. Okay it was annoying him telling me where all of the scenes were and how they were shot out of sequence, but generally you wouldn't know unless you have lived there for a while. Kiss or Kill is a road movie and it is supposed to be shot as they travel across Australia to Perth yet it is shot almost entirely in and around Ceduna. It is interesting though how the filmmakers make it seem that you are journeying for quite a way even though in real life they do not.I liked Kiss or Kill. It was an art-house movie that made it onto the NewVision label and distributed across the United States. I think that is pretty good for a homegrown movie. Australia seems to be producing a lot of art-house movies now though Kiss or Kill is more light on the art house than other movies. What did annoy me was the number of cuts that they would use during the scenes. It is difficult to explain but they would jump a couple of seconds in the action which gave it a different quality but it did annoy me. There are a number of reasons why they did it this way but it could simply be a style that the director wanted.This movie is a movie about a couple of juvenile delinquents who lure married business men into hotel rooms and rob them. One day they kill the victim so decide to flee the city and go to Perth. Unfortunately they have a video in which a very famous football player is recorded basically being a pedophile. It is possible that the businessman was blackmailing him but now the video is in the hands of these kids and the footballer wants it back. Thus they have the police on their tail as well as the footballer. Then people start dying and it seems possible that one of the couple are killing them. We believe that Nick, the woman, is killing people in her sleep, and it comes to a point where she believes it.Kiss or Kill is a story with a good plot though thematically it is empty. It looks at the characters of the juveniles. Nick absolutely hates men after she watches her mother get torched when she was a kid. Thus as men were being killed she believed that it was a psychological aversion to men. We also explore the relationship between them as they struggle to come to terms with murder and they fact that they might be caught. This is where their ride comes to an end because even though they are not moralistic, the fact that they are to be incriminated for many murders they look like everything is at an end.Even though it is a good movie, it does not raise any deep themes nor does it leave you thinking. The end slipped into standard Hollywood rubbish but Kiss or Kill is a good movie to watch, especially to support the South Australian Film Industry.
EvilZephyr
Bill Bennett and the entire crew put together a great film in "Kiss or Kill." After first viewing the trailer on the VHS of The Jackal, I waited two years before coming across this movie. Both Matt Day and Francis O'Connor play a great role. The story is marvelously put together and one you will have to watch closely. This movie was the breakout role for Francis O'Connor, which she can also be seen in Bedazzled, Windtalkers, and About Adam.This film made me a fan of Australian film. Much better than a 6.3 ranking, head over to overstock.com and pick up a copy. It is only, ONLY, $2.00. Best two bucks you'll ever spend! Highly recommended!
Jaime N. Christley
Surprisingly, the genre hasn't been worn down to the nub, despite dozens upon dozens of examples pointing to the contrary.Annoying, overused, Scorsesean jump cuts aside, "Kiss or Kill" has enough good things going for it to make it the best Aussie import I've come across in a great long while.The director is Bill Bennett, whose other noteworthy effort was a Sandra Bullock picture that wasn't really worth bragging about (has anyone made a Sandra Bullock picture worth bragging about?) He's not too keen as a director, really, cross-cutting scenes that haven't got anything to do with each other, overdoing the jump cuts to force a free-and-easy atmosphere onto the proceedings, but as a scenarist he's excellent. The plot begins like any other ordinary "Bonnie and Clyde" xerox, but it flows free from there, as if Bennett just let the characters take over, rather than the plot conventions.The acting, uniformly, is pretty close to fantastic. There's Frances O'Conner as the fast-moving but slow-thinking Nikki, who as a child (opening sequence) sees something so horrible at her home that it's no wonder she chose a life of crime. Matt Day is equally skilled as her lover/partner, though we aren't given as much insight into his character as we are Nikki's. Chris Haywood and Andrew S. Albert are complete naturals as the cops on their trail. For those two detectives, they get a brilliant variation on the "Pulp Fiction" bacon discussion that is the film's highlight.If Bill Bennett fails directing the film into Tarantino-esque jazz rhythms, he succeeds ultimately by giving us an Australian outback that's so barren and unmistakably evil that one might think the "Mad Max" road barbarians were already bopping around, not patient enough to wait for the apocalypse. Characters talk of "unfathomable tunnels under the desert" or live in an abandoned nuclear testing facility, and all through the film there's subtle hints that the outback is one spooky, spooky place. Also, Bennett's decision to use no music (and I mean NO music) is a masterstroke, and he employs a champion cinematographer named Malcolm McCulloch to give the film an eerie, chilly atmosphere. Balance that atmosphere with the occasional joke and cheery scene, and "Kiss or Kill" keeps an audience on its toes.Films like this usually disappoint as they drift into convention at the climax and towards the summary. Creativity in the third act of most movies these days seems quite lacking, in fact, which made the last third of "Kiss or Kill" such a pleasure to watch. I'll just say that thankfully, the surprises and expected twists were, like the rest of the movie, driven by character and personality, instead of the requirements of the genre.