A Kiss Before Dying
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Movie Reviews of A Kiss Before Dying
Movie Review: a kiss before dying still scares me after all these years
Summary: 4 Stars
please don't listen to the negative reviews about this movie. this is one suspense film that did give me nightmares after watching it. Matt Dillon plays the perfect cold and calculating killer. Sean Young was not as bad in this movie as everyone says. but yet she wasn't perfect. Matt is the guy that made this movie good and suspenseful but i was glad when he got hit by a train at the end.The opening death scene was pretty shocking and when he found Sean Young at the mother's house i was sure she was gonna get it for sure. if you love a movie with alot of violence,supsense,and a hot sex scene then you will love this . I have one word for the origional version of this movie: BORING. watch this before you watch the 1956 version with robert wagner. Matt dillion is more mennacingMovie Review: A thriller, not a great one, but a thriller nonetheless
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the type of movie that separates me from most movie critics. They said this was awful, poorly directed, incompetently acted, foolishly presented and an insult to the 1956 original and book. One critic went so far as to say Sean Young played two roles (twins) which gave her the opportunity to play two roles poorly.
I don't argue with any of that. My wife guessed one of the principal clues about 5 mintues into the movie. However, I have to say this movie was interesting from the opening scene and it kept me and my wife involved throughout. It may have been bad but it was effective. It had great studio values and the overly dramatic musical score gave some scenes an affect they didn't have otherwise. Its violent scenes had more of a surreal-life 1970s aura than the cliinically, computer graphic displayed overlay of a 1990s movie. It is also the first film I've ever seen where a train runs over someone (not too graphically).
If you haven't seen "A Kiss Before Dying", the story involves a disturbed young man (Matt Dillon) who romances one sister, then her twin, (and kills a few people in the process) to gain access to her rich dad's wealth. It's taken from a popular 1950s book by Ira Levin and this is the second film treatment, the first coming in 1956 with then-young Robert Wagner in the role of the psycho.
Critics everywhere lamabasted this film as being inane, overdone, sophomoric and so excessively violent it bordered on exploitation. All I can say about that is I tried to watch "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" the night before and was so bored by the silly thing I turned it off after a half-hour. Meanwhile, I stood attentive to "A Kiss Before Dying" to the bitter end, which I might add introduces questions not resolved during the story.
Maybe this says something about my taste in movies. I'm betting it also says something about the entertainment values in films and I think there's more of it in this one than a lot of people want to admit.
Movie Review: YOUNG AND FOOLISH
Summary: 3 Stars
Sean Young is the main reason this adaptation of the classic novel and 1956 film doesn't come up to snuff. She's a lovely lady, but her performance in this one is so uninspired and apathetic, one cannot feel for her or cheer her on in her quest to find out who murdered her twin sister. The audience knows early on that Matt Dillon is the nasty culprit, a true sociopath who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. A contrived and convoluted script doesn't help either. For instance, after Young finds out who her husband really is, what makes her sure that he killed her sister? And how does Dillon know that Young is at his mother's house? The supporting cast gamely tries, even Diane Ladd as Dillon's mother, and James Russo as a cop turned security guard. But it's all laid out so methodically lame, it just doesn't work out. By the time Dillon gets his just desert, who really cares?Movie Review: Enjoyable for all the bad acting...
Summary: 3 Stars
I usually buy films for their good qualities. I bought this one mostly for Sean Young's silly display of "acting". It's sad that she's so clueless, but her lack of connection to her character is consistant; I expected her to bust out laughing at any minute, taking herself so seriously. Acting like this is usually attributed to bad sci-fi, or parody. I still don't know how this film took itself so seriously, but it's great for acting that actually makes you wince. Ouch!Movie Review: watchable
Summary: 3 Stars
but just that. As a thriller, it has a long way to go, largely because of a bad script and medicore acting. Sean Young is so average it's sad. You can't tell if her character is grieving, scheming, uncaring or just plain stupid in many parts. Matt Dillon tried hard, but he also couldn't rise about his level of mediocrity. Still, as noted earlier, it's watchable as opposed to a complete piece of trash.
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