Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Watched this film after watching the directors latest. What a surprise it's so very different, with my mouth open, jaw dropped, I sat through the strangest film I've ever seen. Right from the start it had me in stitches, its very funny, very weird. The music director must have been from planet Zog, but I loved it, never ceased to surprise me, especially the medieval bit. The horror story was totally f***ed up. Great characters, beautifully shot and edited. The whole film seems like some dodgey dubbed seventies Italian horror film. Great film, rent it or buy it and show it to your friends. Has cult written all over it.

Kiss kiss bang bang is silly fun and disturbing, bouncing between quirky humour and playful perveness. Set in some yuppie enclave in suburban London (Clapham?). Several warped and clueless twenty something characters go about their individual pointless lives blissfully unaware that a wolf in sheep's clothing now lives amongst them. When the scheming Machiavellian type gets jealous, mayhem, rape and multiple murders ensue as a psycho takes out and seduces the locals. Very strange but memorable soundtrack, some good twists and very funny banter, with a very memorable if sometimes inaudible hit man raises this well above your average tele-movie of the week. A must for all Russ Meyer fans!

I read such contradictory comments on this film that I decided to check it out myself. I thought that it would be dreadful, what a surprise! Once you get your head round the kitchy Art Work that makes it look like some kind of seventies Italian exploitation film and the slow start, if you make it that far you're in for a treat. It is a very strange film indeed, the music is the first thing I noticed, the sound track seems to have been selected with a wry sense of humour, very tongue in cheek, very unusual, towards the end it had me completely hooked, don't know if the sound track is available on CD. The story is your classic boy meets girl and proceeds to go wrong and murder and mayhem ensue. Lots of very unexpected twists and very strange characters. Particularily liked the mini horror film scene, creepy and memorable. On the whole a highly enjoyable film. I can understand why it's had it's detractors though. It's quite insane and if you like your films logical and glossy this would be a dissapointment. I like the eclectic and the bizarre so Kiss Kiss Bang Bang get my highest vote. Ten out of Ten. More please!

Having seen this film I can now say that my life is complete. The complex, and indeed entirely pointless storyline and character arcs of the subjects are displayed to the audience in such a way as to almost be called Brechtian! In no way did the shakey under developed sets and complete lack of acting destroy my brains ability to be completely fried by the storyline's staggering ineptitude.

I cried whilst watching this film, not from the emotion conveyed to me by the actors, but by the fact that clever, intelligent people who never meant any harm to anybody invented the technology that this has been preserved upon, for all time. Though rather like many other inventions over the past two hundred years, it hasn't taken somebody very long to come up with something horrifically awful to do with it.

I believe that this film is available to buy on DVD in stores up and down the land. I would recommend that you do not throw away your money this way instead do something more useful with it, like buying a litre of used engine oil and drinking it whilst watching Last of the Summer Wine and listening to Elton John's Candle in the Wind, again and again.

I said at the beginning of this review that my life was complete after watching this film and indeed it is. Now I can go through a back catalogue of films that I thought were poor, but now I am able to watch them in a new light. Thank you Ray Brady, now where did I put Remo Williams: Unarmed and Dangerous.

This black comedy was a great surprise rental, loved the DVD cover, kind of retro Italian exploitation circa 1970. The film proved to be just as wacky with bizzare plot changes and hysterical scripting. Their was the occasional dark moments, the assault on the flat-mate was horrid and the pervy temple to Angelica creepy! Throughly recommended for lovers of the strange and the off-beat. A million miles away from the Directors other hit Boy Meets Girl 1994, ripe for a Hollywood remake, very funny.