Passion Killers (1999 TV Movie) User Reviews

That whole zero to hero thing

[tony_njt · 8/10 · 2 February 2005]

A slob loser hung up on his very recent ex falls into a career of exposing infidelity for the rich. It takes a lot of work, but he has a great teacher.

Ben Miller, of 'Johnny English' fame, takes Joe Average to new lows, until he's picked up, suited up and taken to Charm School. The kind of training that every guy wants, a two week crash course in being as smooth as Bond, and knowing how to act rich.

This is Sharp, funny, and timeless in a relationship sense, because women will always be impossible to understand, and impossible to live without.

An amusing anti-rom com

[Tweekums · 7/10 · 9 October 2012]

Kim's job is exposing unfaithful husbands and boyfriends and she wants to hire a man to check up on unfaithful wives and girlfriends; that is where Nick comes in. To say he is feeling a bit bitter about women is an understatement; he recently discovered that his girlfriend of five years had been cheating on him and far from acting contrite she kicked him out of the house where they lived together. He doesn't actually apply for the job with Kim; he just starts talking to her in the bar where she is auditioning men for the job and she assumes he is an applicant! Despite not looking for the job he is the least bad 'applicant' and is offered the post. At first he isn't very good at all as he is too hung up on his ex but with practice he grows in confidence but will a visit to the ex to get some property back lead to a major setback or the ultimate revenge?!

If you are feeling cynical about love and romance then this is probably ideal viewing material; Ben Miller does a fine job as Nick; sure his character is a slob and bit of a loser but it doesn't seem beyond the realms of possibility that with a bit of scrubbing up and some work on his confidence women might fall for his charms. Likewise Georgia Mackenzie is good as Kim... while it is never explained how she got into the profession it seems likely that she started off as bitter as Nick as we learn the father of her child has cleared off to goodness knows where. Over the course of the show it looks as if Nick and Kim will grow closer together giving us a cliché romantic ending but we are never sure if they are really flirting or he is 'just practicing' as she instructed... this way both the cynics and the romantics can be happy at the end as they make up their own minds what happens next.