Kill me three times8/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Nathan and Lucy initiate their insurance fraud scheme by exchanging Lucy's dental records with Alice's, hoping to fool people into believing that Lucy died in the fiery car crash. He reassures Charlie he has more money in the bank, and Charlie says he will return the next day. When Jack finds his safe empty, he immediately suspects Alice and Dylan. Satisfied that Alice is dead, Charlie returns to Jack for payment, not telling him that the hit was carried out by other people. Unknown to all involved, Alice wakes up in time to escape the car before it crashes and explodes. Lucy finds Jack's stolen money in Alice's bag and takes it before trying to kill her. Charlie takes incriminating pictures of the acts. Before she leaves, Alice sneaks into Jack's office and robs his safe.Ĭharlie is amused to see Nathan and his receptionist wife Lucy drug Alice, kidnap her, and eventually, after several mishaps, send her over a cliff in a flaming car. Jack tells Charlie about Alice's dentist appointment. Alice makes an appointment with dentist Nathan Webb to work on her tooth, which Jack chipped when he hit her. When Charlie returns with video proof that Alice is having sex with Dylan Smith, Jack orders Charlie to kill her. After a violent argument, Jack hires Charlie Wolfe, a private investigator and contract killer. In Eagles Nest, Western Australia, a wealthy motel proprietor Jack Taylor believes his wife Alice to be having an affair. The film was released in the United States on 10 April 2015, by Magnet Releasing. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Overall, Kill Me Three Times is maybe worth a watch on Netflix but definitely not the price of a movie ticket.Kill Me Three Times is a 2014 black comedy thriller film directed by Kriv Stenders, which follows a hit man who falls into schemes of blackmail, murder, and revenge. That said, the characters get lost in the shuffle, which makes it difficult to get invested in any of them - most notably the stock siren Alice, who's supposed to be the linchpin of the whole thing. To its credit, the story does include some clever plotting, specifically in the third act, as well as a few nifty set pieces (emphasis on "few"). That's a shame, too, since Stenders' visual style is very much on point - not to mention the gorgeous locations, which do occasionally breathe life into some of the scenes. And despite the movie's comic sensibilities, only Pegg is able to elicit a few chuckles the rest is only slightly amusing at best. The dialogue is about as straightforward as it gets, only serving to progress the plot and leaving the characters high and dry. Teresa Palmer and Sullivan Stapleton in Kill Me Three TimesThe thing is, all these characters are pretty much the same on paper: same voice, same duplicity, same hokey one-liners, etc. There's the dentist (Sullivan Stapleton) and his wife (Teresa Palmer), who are also planning to murder Braga's character Alice the grizzled dirty cop (Bryan Brown), who's on to the murderous couples scheme and the hunky gas station clerk (Luke Hemsworth), who's having an affair with Alice. Indeed, one of the big problems with screenwriter James McFarland's script is that it's chock-full with Tarantino and Rodriguez-esque characters, but without any of their delightful eccentricities. That's not really the fault of the actors, mind you, but the writing. Alas, the same can't be said for the rest of characters, who are all positively bland. While Charlie Wolfe's sense of humor is on-the-nose at times, Pegg's delivery gives the character a much-needed bit of quirk. Obviously the big get for Kill Me Three Times is Pegg, and the Shaun of the Dead star does a good job of playing against type as a conniving, unfeeling gun for hire. In typical Quentin Tarantino fashion, we see the events unfold from numerous perspectives, each one shedding more light on the situation. However, Wolfe soon discovers he's not the only one after his mark, and ends up embroiled in all manner of mayhem, murder and betrayal. Set in the fictional Australian surf town of Eagles Nest, the story follows Charlie Wolfe (Pegg), a quicksilver assassin who's hired to kill the wife (Alice Braga) of a wealthy bar owner (Callan Mulvey). ![]()
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