Kiss or Kill

How much hell can two people raise in the middle of nowhere?

KISS OR KILL (18)

D: Bill Bennett

AFFC (Bill Bennett)

Australia 1998

95 mins

Crime/Thriller

W: Bill Bennett

DP: Malcolm McCulloch

Ed: Henry Dangar

Frances O'Connor (Nikki Davies), Matt Day (Al Fletcher), Chris Haywood (Det. Hummer), Barry Otto (Adler Jones)

A tense road movie with a twist on conventional getaway thrillers, Frances O'Connor and Matt Day play an amoral couple of petty thieves who are on the chase with a videotape which implicates a famous footballer in child pornography.

Frances O'Connor's brilliant performance paved the way for a brief foray into Hollywood movies (Steven Spielberg cast her in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence on the strength of her performance in this).

As good as it is, it's not quite as memorable as other films with similar themes (Badlands, The Getaway, etc), but is most certainly worth a watch

6/10