Kill Me Three Times
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: April 10, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
HitfixDrew McWeenyDec 21, 2014
Kill Me Three Times is a confident smaller film, and if you enjoy this sort of chess game with bullets, you'll probably get a kick out of it, and for Pegg fans, it's pretty much continuous pleasure throughout. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonApr 7, 2015
The flick, written by debut screenwriter James McFarland, is twisty, clever, and totally Nineties. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 7, 2015
Enjoyable mainly for its performances — Pegg’s comic venality, Palmer’s nagging ruthlessness, Brown’s quiet cruelty — and the creative ways it kills its way toward an ending that we’ve seen pretty close to the beginning. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniApr 10, 2015
Not a great film. Or particularly good. In fact, it's fairly bad as B-movies go. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleThomas LeeApr 9, 2015
It’s nice to see Pegg stretch a little and play the bad guy. Too bad Kill Me Three Times doesn’t give him better material. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoApr 9, 2015
An Australian crime yarn with a solid cast and tone, but not enough freshness — or enough of Pegg’s waggishness — to be memorable. Read full review
40
The DissolveMike D'AngeloApr 8, 2015
Kill Me Three Times is reasonably absorbing while it’s in progress, if only because it succeeds in inspiring curiosity about where it’s headed, but the finale is such a blood-soaked shrugfest that it retroactively makes everything that preceded it feel like a waste of time. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDec 21, 2014
This derivative smoothie appears to have been made by putting Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and the Coen Brothers into a blender along with Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths. The brash result squanders a talented cast, sharp visuals and spectacular locations on a grisly trail of mayhem that rarely yields much mirth. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineWes GreeneApr 7, 2015
The affectionate humanism that typically laces Simon Pegg's postmodern self-awareness is missing from Kriv Stenders's film. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 9, 2015
Although Kill Me Three Times includes a few murders, it does nothing to justify its title. Mostly, it just shoots itself in the foot, over and over. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinApr 9, 2015
The neo-noir crime comedy Kill Me Three Times works overtime to seem unique and clever. The result, however, is a derivative, gimmicky, at times dizzying puzzle that fails to engage. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 10, 2015
One is apt to mourn the time wasted not just by the movie’s living participants, but also by the VW bug. All participants could have gotten up to something far more enjoyable. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 9, 2015
Director Kriv Stenders seems to think he’s spun a twisty, delightfully amoral genre riff. Instead, he’s made a brightly colored smirk noir. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithApr 8, 2015
A circle of lowlifes gradually kill one another off to no great effect in the dull and woebegone comic noir Kill Me Three Times. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriApr 10, 2015
This twisty-turny film seems too enamored of its twisty-turniness to give us characters we can latch onto. Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 9, 2015
It’s of course unfair to blame Quentin Tarantino for all the terrible movies he has inspired, but enough already! Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierApr 9, 2015
This Australian movie reminds you what can happen when directors pretend to be Quentin Tarantino, complete with snark masquerading as style, slippery timelines, blood and guts and guns everywhere. Read full review
20
Time OutDavid EhrlichApr 8, 2015
Can a single guitar riff tell you everything you need to know about a movie? The dreadful Kill Me Three Times, which has nothing to offer beyond some aerial looks at the white-and-turquoise beaches of Western Australia, opens with a power chord so cheesy and generic that it immediately identifies this story of amateur criminals as the charmless ’90s throwback that it is. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangDec 21, 2014
Director Kriv Stenders’ tiresome tale of scheming adulterers, cruel spouses and one bemused hitman (Simon Pegg) feels like poser noir all the way, never achieving the darkly comic flair or freshness of style needed to sell its fatalistic twists. Read full review
16
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicDec 21, 2014
If it were funnier, perhaps the trite action and insipid characters could be excused, but it isn’t nearly funny enough for that. Read full review
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