Die in a Gunfight

Schiffli's snarky and snide self-aware tone quickly grows wearisome, and his action sequences have a cheapness about them that's distancing.

It's a shame that it's all so wincingly contrived. The film tries so hard to be slick, but its efforts are both unoriginal and painfully amateurish.

If you want to spend your time judiciously, making sure you get the most of out life, you wouldn't dare rent or see Die in a Gunfight in theatres.

As Die in a Gunfight limps towards its woebegone conclusion, nearly everything that was once interesting about it falls away.

The Bard's most famous love story has spawned many adaptations, and Lurhmann's take on it has sparked plenty of imitators, but this is the very worst of both worlds.

This Romeo & Juilet adaptation is dead on arrival.

If William Shakespeare were alive, he would retch at how Die in a Gunfight shamelessly steals from Romeo and Juliet and rots it down to the tackiest levels. It's an action comedy that's boring and witless.

For all of its colorful characters and attempts at comic-book coolness, this violence-infused, star-crossed romance ultimately feels even less than lightweight. It feels as if it's about nothing at all.

Bonita and Daddario are mostly fine as trust-fund lovers navigating their parents' petty rivalries, but Schiffli's budget-Drive aesthetic does them no favors in this cliff's notes version of one of the most enduring romances in literary history.

A violent Romeo & Juliet-inspired story, director Collin Schiffli makes some interesting storytelling choices, but it's too hip for its own good. What will keep your eyes glued to the screen are Diego Boneta and Alexandra Daddario's chemistry.