Kiss or Kill (1997)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Admirable film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

Interesting murder/love story, set in the Australian outback. Way out in the outback. A road picture in which a reckless young couple are pursued by both the police and a gangster who wants something they've taken from him.Simple enough so far. The problem is that the couple seem to be ahead of the people tracking them, yet from time to time, as they stop at some crummy motel for the night, or stay at a friendly couple's house, a dead body or two turns up the next morning. So who's doing whom around here? The young lady (O'Connor) has a habit of sleepwalking and doing things at night that she is unable to remember. But Al (Day) is doing things too -- robbing their acquaintances, for instance -- and trying to keep these secret acts from her.The ending, which renders the concept of implausibility corporate, winds up with both the young folks innocent of any serious crime, and they live happily ever after.Despite the fact that people get burned to death, raped, and have their throats cut, it's overall a pretty good-natured movie with little gore or horror. Actually, there is some humor, mostly involving the pair of obscene detectives who are tracking the suspects.At one point the cops are forced by their responsibility to watch a tape which has recorded the goings on in a motel room, searching for an image of O'Connor. In one episode on the tape a middle-aged man slips into bed with a blond young boy. ("Eh, this ******'s sick.") Farther on, a dark girl strips and begins servicing her customer. One cop says that it looks like O'Connor. The older cop stops the tape, peers at the screen, and says, no, that's not her. That's Felicity. The first cop thinks for a moment and asks, "'Ow do you know air nime is Felicity"? "Because she 'as no teeth," answers the other. They both nod and start the tape again. There are several such incidents, all the more funny because neither of them laughs. They're given the best lines, no doubt about it. "Well, this isn't the end of the world but you can see it from here." I don't know exactly why the film is edited in such a way that many cuts have a few frames missing. I guess it saves time and adds some zip to what is already a pretty fast-moving story. I didn't find it as distracting as it might sound. Never any sense of the director's hollering, "Hey, Mom, I got a CAMERA!" Australians are generally a lot of fun. I like the guys especially. They're heavily into sports, beer drinking, jokes, bonding and a lot of other masculine stuff -- without a touch of narcissism or meanness. I like them because they demonstrate that manliness doesn't necessarily take the form of John Wayne. They haven't painted themselves into a corner by adopting too narrow a definition of gender identity. Hard to believe that Greek warriors would write poetry in the evening and rush into combat mano a mano the next day.

This is a sort of modern day film noir directed by Bill Bennett and stars Matt Day and Frances O'Connor. Day and O'Connor play a young couple in Austrila who are a couple of con artists and they mostly scam married men who pick up O'Connor in a bar. Things are going good until someone actually dies and they wind up with a videotape, on that videotape is a celebrity named Zipper Doyle, who is a football star, and he's having sex with a young boy. Day and O'Connor go on the run with both the police looking for them and Doyle trying to kill them. There are several more deaths but you don't see who murders who and Day and O'Connor get to the point where they can't trust each other. It's a pretty good movie that was a huge hit in Austrilia.

This is a near amateur work,sometimes incoherent,sometimes self-conscious.But further acquaintance shows that you should not be taken in by appearances.This is a very strange story,with an actress Frances O'Connor ,who resembles Juliette Lewis (try to see "Kalifornia" and you'll know what I mean.)A couple (A poor man's Bonnie and Clyde) is on the lam with the cops hot on their heels.The girl has lured middle-aged man in order to strip him of what he has on him,with a little help from her lover.She has given him sleeping pills but unfortunately he has died.We will never really know whether they were guilty.Then begins a chase,including two cops,a pedophile former athlete,and a bunch of weirdoes whom we only see a few minutes and remember though.Strange is the keyword .The bizarre innkeeper,who knows scary things about the hole he lives in,the couple,who eats a fondue in the desert-a dish you usually eat in the French/Swiss mountains when it's very cold outside-,the cop who begins to talk about his handicapped child,the old couple in a former nuclear area, and their awful fate,everything exudes something drastically out of the ordinary(or too ordinary depending on whom you ask,anyway it's all the same).Frances O'Connors and her co-star are effective;their relationship is much more complex than we thought at the beginning of the movie.And the ending is even more disturbing,the last line of Nicole being very ambiguous .Once thing for sure is the love they share,it's really true love.We will never know why the boy ties her to the bed:it's not simply sexual,it seems that there's something more frightening .And when we begin to understand,the explanation becomes null and void.Filmed any old how,"kiss or kill" deserves your attention,and is a must for road movies buffs.