You Kill Me
This is the story of a man while drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
2 September 1974
21 September 1971, Dallas, Texas, USA
17 December 1946, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
25 February 1966, New York City, New York, USA
17 December 1953, Hornell, New York, USA
April 28, 2011
Where Dahl succeeds is in transforming two essentially tired characters into fully fleshed-out human beings who fall in love.
December 18, 2007
Kingsley seems to be sleepwalking through the entire movie, in a faux-understated performance
July 13, 2007
One of those self-consciously quirky indie films that will strike some as comic genius while leaving the rest of the audience scratching their head.
December 07, 2007
Ben Kingsley brings a batty, basilisk wit to You Kill Me, a black comedy about a dipsomaniacal hitman.
July 06, 2007
A strong performance by the reliable Kingsley, and a tartly sweet one from Leoni, keeps You Kill Me from turning into the bad joke the title implies.
July 14, 2007
A lot more clever than it initially appears.
July 06, 2007
A film whose deft blend of action thrills and gallows humor packs a jaunty kick and a firing-range boom.
July 06, 2007
An unpredictable, enjoyable mob comedy.
May 01, 2008
A sweet black comedy about a professional killer from Buffalo whose gangster uncle makes him join Alcoholics Anonymous in San Francisco, falls in love with a down to earth saleswoman and cleans up his act so he can be a neater killer.
December 07, 2007
Kingsley shows a surprising talent for deadpan comic delivery.
September 01, 2007
Surely there aren't many emotionally fragile mobster stories left in the Hollywood arsenal. But at least Kill is a pretty good shot with the laughs.
December 07, 2007
Domesticating the mobster within society has become almost a commonplace, thanks to The Sopranos, but Kingsley's tight-lipped gruffness gives a lift to the mordant ironies of the script.
