Why Don't You Just Die!

Name: Why Don't You Just Die!
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Released: April 20, 2020
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Aleksandr Domogarov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Elena Shevchenko, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Igor Grabuzov

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Arrow Video | Release Date (Streaming): April 20, 2020 | NR

Starring: Aleksandr Domogarov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Elena Shevchenko, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Igor Grabuzov, Ilya Gavrilenkov, Ilya Kostyukov, Mikhail Gorevoy, Vasiliy Kopeikin, Vitaliy Khaev

Summary: Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable - not to mention ruthless -Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable - not to mention ruthless - opponent than he anticipated... and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
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Director: Kirill Sokolov

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: NR

Runtime: 99 min

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Empire Nikki Baughan

Apr 24, 2020

A rip-roaring, bloody slice of Russian genre cinema that combines a tightly plotted narrative with a stylish command of craft to hugely entertaining, immersive effect. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Apr 20, 2020

It won’t be for everyone, certainly, but if social distancing has you not just climbing the walls but contemplating punching a hole in them, this might just be the perfect cathartic lockdown movie. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Apr 20, 2020

Why Don’t You Just Die! is an accomplished film that makes the very most of its limited sets, without seeming constricted or stagey. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Apr 9, 2020

Set almost entirely in a corrupt cop’s Moscow apartment, Why Don’t You Just Die! is a neatly conceived dark-comedy chamber piece — à la the Wachowski siblings’ clockwork-perfect queer-noir “Bound” or Sidney Lumet’s airtight but otherwise diabolical “Deathtrap” — in which a simple setup spirals into unimaginably twisted mayhem. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Apr 21, 2020

Sokolov’s debut feature is a clever, bloody as hell, often hilarious virtuoso exercise in excruciating harm-doing among mendacious people. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Apr 9, 2020

These people are so greedily narcissistic that the best fun lies in what they’re willing to do to each other and how they react upon realizing that truth. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Apr 20, 2020

Aside from the film’s more immediate pleasures, what is perhaps most intriguing about Why Don’t You Just Die! is Sokolov’s almost visible attempt to find his own voice: among this melange of film-school influences, it’s undoubtedly there, though perhaps it hasn’t quite formed yet. Read full review

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freeKade1ka

Apr 21, 2020

it is just pretty perfect russian movie, i think it js cool, funny, etc. It worth your time!

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DawdlingPoet

May 24, 2022

This is very much a bloody violent, somewhat gore infested film. Its pretty over the top and I suppose that give its the dark comedy - its very darkly comic, though if you don't like blood and guts, even in a somewhat exaggerated, almost comic book style way, then you won't find this 'funny'This is very much a bloody violent, somewhat gore infested film. Its pretty over the top and I suppose that give its the dark comedy - its very darkly comic, though if you don't like blood and guts, even in a somewhat exaggerated, almost comic book style way, then you won't find this 'funny' really. I'm not sure if I can call it funny in the 'normal' sense - of this type of film, its about what you may expect I suppose. I'd also like to point out that the film features some pretty bright lighting - almost all of the film takes place in one apartment, with old fashioned, bright wallpaper and strip lights etc. all clearly standing out.

Ofcourse the plot line is ludicrous, if anything then that may be what makes you laugh - the title gives it away a bit. Its a bit like a duracell bunny, with more than one character seemingly surviving the un-survivable. I'd like to think most people watching (well, everyone watching, surely?) would realise this is hardly a realistic plot but that's ok, its only a film - this is definitely not a biopic!. I guess if you like this kind of film then yes, I'd recommend it.… Expand

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ChrisWatches

May 5, 2021

Unwatchable torture porn. Really disturbed that literally anyone was able to sit through this whole thing.

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