Albert Dekker, Cloris Leachman, Fortunio Bonanova
After trying to rescue a fleeing girl on the road one night, lowlife detective Mike Hammer is drawn into investigating first a murder, then the whereabouts of a mysterious box that seems to have promp...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 19, 2001
Stats: 321 reviews
Interesting movie, somehow I found the style very fresh.
I loved the beginning of the movie, it immediately sets the tone for the rest.
A solid masterpiece. Not quite noir, more a monochrome 50s nuclear nightmare. Mickey Spillane hated Aldrich's film, Ralph Meeker brilliantly playing Mike Hammer as a smirking sadist, enjoying the pain he inflicts (look at his expression as he tortures someone with a desk drawer) ...( read more)
"kiss me deadly" is not the conventional noir which populates in 1940s with detective hero scenarios, and contrarily our opportunistic protagonist could be the meanest dubious anti-hero who sticks to his chauvinist womanizing lifestyle without redeeming mercy. and the catastrophe...( read more)
Ralph Meeker, in the role of his life, plays the violent and fireproof Mike Hammer in a supremely enjoyable McCarthy-era/nuclear holocaust paranoid Noir. full of great moments like the opening scene and an epilogue that makes it feel like a genuine horror film.
Unsettling and extremely cold noir. Kiss Me Deadly's got a very slick look to it, but it doesn't come at you with an attractive or even engaging or charismatic cast. Ralph Meeker's kind of a dopey (maybe that's the nature of Hammer--I don't know) Mike Hammer who makes all the wro...( read more)
Bonus points for endurance. You'll want to see this if you like classic noir.
Sleazy, violent and grim nightmare/maze of a film noir. Just the way you like it.
It's not a horror movie by any means, but like a good horror movie it has images and tiny loose ends that make sense on a subconscious level. full review
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