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Kiss Me Deadly starts off with a bang--a young woman (Cloris Leachman) in bare feet and a trench coat runs along a highway, frantically trying to flag down help. In desperation, she finally thr...( read more 
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MCT:July 28, 2008Victime d'une tentative de meurtre après avoir embarqué une jeune femme sur le bord de la route, un détective privé mène sa propre enquête pour retracer ses bourreaux et découvre qu'ils sont en fait à la recherche d'un mystérieux objet. Un film noir bien tourné, rempli de rebondissements cocasses et de scènes qui font sourire.
Aldrich semble s'amuser avec les clichés du genre tout en le maîtrisant parfaitement. Son héros est à toute épreuve: fort, viril, séduisant les femmes sans se soucier d'elles et toujours sur une nouvelle piste. Le ton du film est constamment sur la mince ligne entre le sérieux et l'humour pince-sans-rire. On y trouve même une subtile touche de fantastique. Un long métrage très divertissant à l'esthétique soignée. -
MCT:July 23, 2008
Ralph Meeker stars as Mike Hammer, a hard drinkin', hard lovin' private detective hot on the trail of a murderer. He survives being beaten, drugged, shot and even pushed off a cliff in an automobile in this conventional crime thriller with a very unconventional ending. The cast list reads like a virtual "who's who" of character actors with names like Cloris Leachman, Albert Dekker, Jack Elam, Percy Helton and Strother Martin. But, even with this bevy of future stars surrounding him, it's Meeker that draws your attention. This is a role he was born to play and a film you shouldn't miss!
*Note: Kiss Me Deadly currently holds the record for the largest answering machine ever caught on film. :) -
MCT:July 2, 2008Uno de los temas por excelencia del cine serie B y de muchos film-noir durante la postguerra, fue la paranoia por la energía nuclear y sus terribles consecuencias para la humanidad. En Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Robert Aldrich introdujo este tema sin que fuera del todo constante en la trama, ni lo que movía a su personaje principal, Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker), un poco escrupuloso y mujeriego detective. Hasta su gran vuelta de tuerca final, se revelaba la existencia de una ?sustancia peligrosa? guardada en una maleta.
La película se puede ver como un antecedente de teleseries posteriores como The Twilight Zone, tan sólo en el intrigante inicio, con una bella mujer (Cloris Leachman) corriendo asustada en la noche por la carretera, mientras vemos unos créditos iniciales que corren en sentido inverso y con la canción ?Rather the Blues? de fondo, interpretada por Nat King Cole.
De los mejores film-noir de los 1950, Kiss Me Deadly está basada en una novela de Mickey Spillane, adaptada por el guionista A.I. Bezzerides y magníficamente fotografiada por Ernest Laszlo. El guión tenía uno de sus mayores atractivos en la maleta que contenía un fascinante y misterioso elemento radiactivo, y cada vez que alguien la abría despedía sus efectos mortales en la forma de una deslumbrante luz al desafortunado curioso. ¿Quentin Tarantino se habrá inspirado en esta maleta para la que aparecía en Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction y Kill Bill 2? Apuesto que sí.
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MCT:April 29, 2008
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.
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MCT:January 19, 2008
Aldrich was a fantastic director and this classic has his fingerprints all over it. This movie was way ahead of it's time and if you ever wondered where Tarantino got the idea for the glowing suitcase. Look no further.
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MCT:January 15, 2008ugh, this was a huge disappointment, and not because i was anticipating it but because of how bad it was. i don't know how this can be regarded as a good film let alone a classic by anyone. do yourself a favour, avoid this unless you're a hardcore and i mean hardcore Tarantino fan and go watch "Double Indemnity" for a truly great film noir.
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MCT:January 6, 2008
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 wrong choices as he turns everything around him to shit. Then there's the case of his doormat assistant you can't bring yourself to feel sorry for. The ending was kind of cool but it was a case of too little too late. If you're on a total film noir bender it's a great place to turn and it might even be considered essential viewing as far as the genre's concerned, but by no means typical. I just wasn't blown away by it. Great opening (including a young Cloris Leachman) even if the titles were bad though.
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MCT:December 30, 2007
I'm rating the original cut. The extra minute or so that they put in for "clarification" makes everything super lame and ridiculously obvious. But yeah, great old noir.
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MCT:November 30, 2007Slow, silly, stupid - this movie is so lame it makes me yawn just to think of it. After one hour's watch I couldn't bear to waste any further lifetime on this tele-junk.
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MCT:November 18, 2007
Incredibly slick noir, with dialog that'll leave you impaled on the dark highway it begins on. Ralph Meeker is a perfect Mike Hammer, dripping with enough sleaze and cold sentiment to freeze over hell. Quite possibly the birth of the cool.
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MCT:September 4, 2007This impeccably shot film absolutely oozes with style, and its innovative camerawork isn't its only defining feature. Aldrich directs his violent, absorbing mystery story with precision and focus, and the performances are solid all around. Some of the best black-and-white cinematography I have ever seen.
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MCT:June 26, 2007
For me, this film was terrific. It had everything a noir film could have asked for and Aldrich is superb.
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MCT:May 7, 2007
Christina Bailey: Get me to that bus stop and forget you ever saw me. If we don't make it to the bus stop...
Mike Hammer: We will.
Christina Bailey: If we don't, remember me.
This is an interesting noir with an asshole of a main protagonist. He breaks all kinds of rules to get what he wants.
The plot revolves around a woman's death leading to an investigation by the main character Hammer, to see what the big scheme of things is.
What makes this movie worthwhile is three thingsl:
The opening sequence is particularly good at getting things moving.
A while into the movie has one of the biggest "what the fuck" moments I have ever seen.
And the ending is particularly crazy, making things all worth it.
Dr. G.E. Soberin: Listen to me, as if I were Cerberus barking with all his heads at the gates of hell. I will tell you where to take it, but don't... don't open the box! -
MCT:March 7, 2007
An insane, over the top classic film noir. Don't worry if you don't get it all in the end. Nobody does, but who cares.
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MCT:February 25, 2007
A two fisted nuclear noir. Mike Hammer probably gets knocked out more in this one film then any three private eyes combined.
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MCT:January 23, 2007
Every thing a 50s film noir should be - hard guys, faithless women and something nasty in the case. Ralph Meeker IS the archetype private eye
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MCT:January 17, 2007
clori sleachman is a hitchhiker. and there r so many dead bodies! ther r so many ganggsters! everyone dies! and ralph meeker is boring. but its good.
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MCT:November 19, 2006
Amazingly violent and nihilistic thriller. I read about it and persuaded the Librarian in charge of order videos to get a copy, and Kiss Me Deadly lived up to the hype.
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MCT:October 16, 2006
Surprisingly a really good film noir - I wasnt expecting to what I was about to see. I cant really explain it in a few words so just check it out if you like old films. Deffo worth a look.
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MCT:October 5, 2006
this movie is insane. if you are a fan of modern day mash up directors, or movies like big trouble in little china, you will like this.
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