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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyKill Me Three Times is a confident smaller film, and if you enjoy this sort of chess game with bullets, you'll probably get a kick out of it, and for Pegg fans, it's pretty much continuous pleasure throughout.
- 70Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonThe flick, written by debut screenwriter James McFarland, is twisty, clever, and totally Nineties.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreEnjoyable mainly for its performances — Pegg’s comic venality, Palmer’s nagging ruthlessness, Brown’s quiet cruelty — and the creative ways it kills its way toward an ending that we’ve seen pretty close to the beginning.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThis derivative smoothie appears to have been made by putting Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and the Coen Brothers into a blender along with Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths. The brash result squanders a talented cast, sharp visuals and spectacular locations on a grisly trail of mayhem that rarely yields much mirth.
- 40The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloKill Me Three Times is reasonably absorbing while it’s in progress, if only because it succeeds in inspiring curiosity about where it’s headed, but the finale is such a blood-soaked shrugfest that it retroactively makes everything that preceded it feel like a waste of time.
- 38Slant MagazineWes GreeneSlant MagazineWes GreeneThe affectionate humanism that typically laces Simon Pegg's postmodern self-awareness is missing from Kriv Stenders's film.
- 25New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithA circle of lowlifes gradually kill one another off to no great effect in the dull and woebegone comic noir Kill Me Three Times.
- 20VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangDirector Kriv Stenders’ tiresome tale of scheming adulterers, cruel spouses and one bemused hitman (Simon Pegg) feels like poser noir all the way, never achieving the darkly comic flair or freshness of style needed to sell its fatalistic twists.
- 20Time OutDavid EhrlichTime OutDavid EhrlichCan a single guitar riff tell you everything you need to know about a movie? The dreadful Kill Me Three Times, which has nothing to offer beyond some aerial looks at the white-and-turquoise beaches of Western Australia, opens with a power chord so cheesy and generic that it immediately identifies this story of amateur criminals as the charmless ’90s throwback that it is.
- 16The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicIf it were funnier, perhaps the trite action and insipid characters could be excused, but it isn’t nearly funny enough for that.