Kill Me Three Times is a blackly comic crime thriller set in Australia.
In the small coastal community Alice Taylor (Alice Braga) is suspicious of her abusive husband Jack Taylor (Callan Mulvey.) Jack has good reason for his suspicions as she is having an affair with mechanic Dylan Smith (Luke Hemsworth) and she also plans to steal from her husband and run away with Dylan.
Jack hires hit-man Charlie Wolfe (Simon Pegg) to follow her and then take her out. Nathan Webb (Sullivan Stapleton) is a dentist, his wife Lucy (Teresa Palmer) is his receptionist and she is also Jack' sister.
They have schemed to kill Alice, switch dental records with Lucy and collect from her life insurance as Nathan has gambling debts and is being shaken down by a corrupt cop.
Charlie observes Alice being killed and surviving, it has the Tarantino type jumbled up narrative as well as heavy dose of violence but lacks the dark humour of the Coen brothers. As you watch the film more subplots are revealed as there is more backstabbing than a Roman senate meeting.
Brazilian actress Braga shines, Pegg plays against type as a nasty hit-man who seems to bounce back more times than the Terminator. The film is derivative but improves as it goes along helped by its Australian setting.
In the small coastal community Alice Taylor (Alice Braga) is suspicious of her abusive husband Jack Taylor (Callan Mulvey.) Jack has good reason for his suspicions as she is having an affair with mechanic Dylan Smith (Luke Hemsworth) and she also plans to steal from her husband and run away with Dylan.
Jack hires hit-man Charlie Wolfe (Simon Pegg) to follow her and then take her out. Nathan Webb (Sullivan Stapleton) is a dentist, his wife Lucy (Teresa Palmer) is his receptionist and she is also Jack' sister.
They have schemed to kill Alice, switch dental records with Lucy and collect from her life insurance as Nathan has gambling debts and is being shaken down by a corrupt cop.
Charlie observes Alice being killed and surviving, it has the Tarantino type jumbled up narrative as well as heavy dose of violence but lacks the dark humour of the Coen brothers. As you watch the film more subplots are revealed as there is more backstabbing than a Roman senate meeting.
Brazilian actress Braga shines, Pegg plays against type as a nasty hit-man who seems to bounce back more times than the Terminator. The film is derivative but improves as it goes along helped by its Australian setting.