ThiefHott Too much of everything

Wordiezett So much average

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

adi_2002 I can say that I have really killed my time with this movie. There is nothing happening in it, it is a mixture of stories in which a hit-man after fails to fulfill a mission as he slept, is sent by his uncle to San Francisco to take a little vacation to recovery. Here he goes to meet a group of alcoholics anonymous where he meets his contact person. He takes a part-time job at a funeral home where he meets his half and after being an average woman reaches by the end of the movie to be a professional assassin only after he showed her some techniques of handling the knife. Too bad the movie did not come out much better especially with a cast so great.

MBunge You Kill Me is a nice film that could have been better if it hadn't gotten so caught up in its own premise.Frank (Ben Kingsley) is hit-man and primary muscle for a Polish crime family in Buffalo. I've never really heard of the Polish Mafia before, but apparently they've got it in Buffalo. Frank is also a drunk and when he drinks too much he passes out, missing his chance to kill the head of a rival Irish crime family (all criminals seem to be ethnic in Buffalo), the head of the Polish mob, Frank's uncle, sends his alcoholic nephew to San Francisco to dry himself out. Out on the Left Coast, Frank gets a job preparing the bodies for showing at a funeral home, starts going to AA meetings and meets a really tough chick named Laurel (Tea Leoni). But as Frank tries to stop drinking so he can get back to killing, his crime family back home gets more and more squeezed by its enemies. Though Frank wants to see what he can make of life with Laurel, he's drawn back to Buffalo to make one final stand.I would guess that synopsis doesn't sound like a particularly funny movie, but You Kill Me is fairly amusing. Kingsley creates in Frank a none-too-bright, emotionally unaware "fish out of water", whether he's in an AA meeting or nervously asking Laurel out on a date. Frank also has an utter lack of hypocrisy about what he does for a living and why he does it. The story does ask you to accept that no one cares or gets upset when Frank tells them he kills people. I know that San Francisco is supposed to be all tolerant and stuff, but you would think that the folks out there would recoil just a bit from someone who performs murder-for-hire.Tea Leoni is also quite nice as a woman who's smarter and in some ways tougher than her professional killer boyfriend. But the movie never does enough with Laurel and that's related to its main weakness. T he idea of a hit-man being sent out to San Francisco to stop drinking and "get in touch with himself" is pretty neat, but the story gets trapped in that concept. Once Frank gets out there, you become interested in him and in Laurel and in the other people he meets out there, like his gay AA sponsor Tom (Luke Wilson). There's a funny and charming dynamic that develops but gets cut off as the movie keeps going back to the state of Frank's crime family in Buffalo. To the audience, though, there's no real reason to care about what happens to the Polish mob or bother with why they're better than the Irish mob or the Greek mob or the Chinese mob.One of the tricks of writing is learning to recognize that you may intend a story to go in one direction but once you start, the story may want to unfold in a completely different way. You Kill Me wanted to stay in San Francisco and say more about this world and these people Frank found himself with. For example, what burned Laurel so badly in life that a short, bald, middle aged assassin looks like great relationship material to her because…at least he's honest? But these filmmakers weren't paying enough attention to their own film to see that.You Kill Me is mildly entertaining, mostly for the good work of Kingsley and Leoni, but it's one of those movies that you can tell could have been a lot better.

TxMike Watched this on Netflix streaming. Nice diversion, good acting, funny if you don't mind seeing a movie where people are murdered. All in proper perspective, of course.Ben Kingsley is Frank Falenczyk, a member of an extended Polish family in Buffalo, NY. As Frank grew up in the family he only learned one thing, how to kill people, all part of the family business. But Frank has taken to drinking too much, and it has been interfering with his ability to do his job correctly. So he is sent to San Francisco to sober up, attending AA is mandatory. Frank gets a part time job working in a funeral home, helping prepare the dead for their final services. In the process he meets Téa Leoni as Laurel Pearson, and against all odds they agree to get coffee some time, or maybe a real date. They hit it off, even after she finds out he goes to AA meetings, even after she finds out what his real job is. "Well everyone has faults", she says.Other good actors include Luke Wilson as Tom, a member of the local SF AA group, and who gives Frank encouragement. Dennis Farina as Edward O'Leary, the rival "businessman" in Buffalo, who takes advantage of Frank's absence. Philip Baker Hall as Roman Krzeminski, Frank's uncle and who runs the repair shop business, among other things. Bill Pullman as Dave, in real estate in SF and who is also keeping an eye on Frank for the business back in Buffalo.SPOILERS: One of the funny scenes is when Frank gets up in front of his AA group and admits that his job is to kill people, and being an alcoholic interferes. Later when Tom and Laurel tell him he had guts to say all that in front of the group, his comment was "This is supposed to be anonymous." Anyway Laurel also gets interested in Frank's job, he teaches her how to shoot and how to use a knife. Which comes in handy, she goes back to Buffalo to look Frank up and, at the AA meeting she notices a gun in the rear, she grabs a knife, and subdues the man who was gunning for Frank. After setting things straight in Buffalo, Frank and Laurel profess their love for each other and end up back in San Francisco.June 2014 update: Just saw it again, very entertaining dark comedy!

Chrysanthepop Dahl's 'You Kill Me' is an offbeat dark comedy. The concept of an alcoholic hit-man forced to be on sabbatical in order for him to quit by joining an AA meeting and during the process falling in love with a feisty young woman is intriguing and hilarious. 'You Kill Me' has plenty such funny moments but the problem for me was that, somewhere in the middle, it moves at an extremely slow pace. Moreover the film does have its share of clichés especially towards the end and it would have been more enjoyable if the story was a little more tightpacked. I liked the violin pieces that played in the background every time Frank was having a good and a bad moment. Kingsley is great as Frank Falenczyk. Tèa Leoni is hilarious. Known for her comedic abilities, here her approach is subtle. Her reaction to Frank and her dialogue delivery is superb. Luke Wilson is sadly wasted. Being a big fan of black comedy, 'You Kill Me' was worth a one-time watch mostly because of the comic scenes and the performances.