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Kiss Me Deadly

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Kiss Me Deadly

Albert Dekker, Cloris Leachman, Fortunio Bonanova, Jack Elam, Jack Lambert, James McCallion, James Seay, Juano Hernandez, Marian Carr, Nat 'King' Cole, Nick Dennis, Paul Stewart, Percy Helton, Ralph Meeker, Strother Martin, Wesley Addy

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  read more... )ted the crime. The contents of the box - the great whatsit - are being sought by atomic age spies as well as by Hammer.

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  • Saxia
    July 2, 2009
    Saxia
    Interesting movie, somehow I found the style very fresh.
    I loved the beginning of the movie, it immediately sets the tone for the rest.
  • ohagankieran
    January 26, 2009
    ohagankieran
    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)and is only interested in his car and easy money instead of Spillane's square-jawed Commie-basher. A word of praise for Gaby Rogers' Lily Carver whose insatiable curiosity has severe consequences and Albert Dekker as Doctor Soberin. The violence was so extreme for the time that the film was only seen uncut in the UK when Channel 4 broadcast it in the 90s. Get the R1 edition as, while both are non-anamorphic, at least it contains the alternate ending, used as audiences misinterpreted the original ending. To find out more about the brilliant and under-rated director I recommend Alain Silver and James Ursini's book What Ever Happened To Robert Aldrich
  • groaningbitch
    October 27, 2008
    groaningbitch
    "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) at last is the metaphoric phobia for the atomic age when chemical explosion is the deadliest phemonal crisis then. the femme fatale is ruthlessly trigger-happy pandora who unravel the lethal box of doom. the world surrounded within "kiss me deadly" is not entirely realistic decadence for the crimes of passion but a crooked labyrinth where man's avarice dominates, and the cynicism of such macabre is timelessly contemporary.

    the profile of our male protagonist is cleverly anchored within the dialogues at the opening sequence while a female asylum inmate hitchhikes his two-seat chic roadster: "a self-indulgent male who cares nothing but his clothes, his car, who only takes but never gives in a relationship."....then the horrid murder under the disguise of car wreck follows after a brutal kidnap. so this self-indulgent male happens to be a bedroom dick, who philanders his own girlfriend to profit from divorce cases, is eager to investigate the truth of the matter on his own, NOT for the sake of performing justice but to gain an angle of earning quick cashes. the process of mayhem is highly practiced within the procedue of obtaining what he yearns to know. so this self-obessed man intimates everyone involed and embraces to kiss every woman to attain his purposes. and that includes whoring his own sappy girlfriend AGAIN. BUT his effortless greed is futile since what he's after turns out to be an appartus of apolytic condemnation.

    this is an universe running amok with its sinister overpower, and its lack of heroic savior is modern syptom of aloof amorality which detonates the explosion of pandora's box to ruminate man's own misdemeanors. ralph meeker's self-assumptious chauvinist ends up being a dope who takes the bullet of punishment from a guiling female con, so he retreats into his maternal girlfriend's bossom to do away with the forseeing descent of pandora's evil venom...could he be immue?

    needless to say, the illuminator is ralph meeker's devilish womanizer as well as gaby rodger who emanates a modern sense of diabolism which rivals lena olin in "romeo is bleeding"...there's not much realism in "kiss me deadly" but an intriguing concept expressed in an utterly self-centered perspective.
  • pier007
    April 29, 2008
    pier007
    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.
  • mjgildea
    January 6, 2008
    mjgildea
    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)ng 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.
  • phaedrus99
    July 29, 2009
    phaedrus99
    Bonus points for endurance. You'll want to see this if you like classic noir.
  • notspam555
    May 30, 2009
    notspam555
    This film rocks ass!
  • catpeople22
    April 26, 2009
    catpeople22
    an apocalyptic gem!!!!
  • berigan
    March 7, 2009
    berigan
    A favorite. Fast-paced film noir with several twists. Well worth seeing.
  • wilmothoudini
    March 4, 2009
    wilmothoudini
    Sleazy, violent and grim nightmare/maze of a film noir. Just the way you like it.
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