Her last request was his first mistake.
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
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- gravecomic
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- John Chardon TMDB · Mar 20196/10
The first of John Dahl's neo-noir forrays. Kill Me Again is directed by John Dahl and Dahl co-writes the screenplay with David W. Warfield. It stars Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen, Pat Mulligan and Nick Dimitri. Music is by William Olvis and cinematography by Jacques Steyn. Detective Jack Andrews (Kilmer) becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend. John Dahl loves film noir, we know that now after all these years. He would direct the superb Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, two bona fide greats from the neo-noir splinter of film making. Kill Me Again (classic film noir title right there) is his fist directorial feature film venture, it is like a lot of debuts from directors who have a kink for a certain genre or style of film making, in that it only hints at better things to come. Unfortunately, in spite of being solid enough within the noir parameters, it's all a bit too derivative for its own good. Standard noir tropes are adhered to, male protag led into the murk by a femme fatale, a bruising psycho, some twists and turns, and some stylistics via camera and photographic lenses. Plot relies on the salty machination
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Cast
- Val KilmerJack Andrews
- Joanne WhalleyFay Forrester
- Michael MadsenVince Miller
- Jon GriesAlan Swayzie
- Michael GreeneLt. Hendrix
- Bibi BeschJack's Secretary
- Joseph CarberryJonesy
- Pat MulliganSammy
- Nick DimitriMarty
- Robert SchuchCollection Agent #1
Crew
- John DahlDirector
- David W. WarfieldWriter
- John DahlWriter
- Jacques SteynDirector of Photography
- William OlvisOriginal Music Composer
- Frank E. JimenezEditor
- Eric L. BeasonEditor
- Jonathan P. ShawEditor
- Steve GolinProducer
- David W. WarfieldProducer
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