Kiss or Kill . Tucson Weekly . 12-08-97

Kiss or Kill

DIRECTED BY: Bill Bennett

REVIEWED: 12-08-97

Just in case you haven't seen enough variations on the young-lovers-on-the-run movie, here's one set in the desolate Australian outback. The twist is that the lovers, played by Matt Day and Frances O'Conner (both last seen in Love and Other Catastrophes), have good reason to suspect each other of the throat-slitting murders that mysteriously occur wherever they go. Though the film feels cool, with its grainy cinematography, enigmatic minor characters and listless narration, it's loosely executed to a fault. Key narrative elements are left so sketchy, so "whatever," that suspense drains through the cracks. Somebody please tell director Bill Bennett that excessive jump cuts and other forms of purposeful sloppiness no longer qualify as style.

--Woodruff

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