You Kill Me (DVD)

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room John Dahl is the best known director of modern noir (or "neo noir") films - his incredibly successful outings such as The Last Seduction and Red Rock West earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and allowed him to graduate to more profitable, if also less heady films such as the crackling thriller Joy Ride. However, in 2007, he made You Kill Me, a more quirky film altogether, about an alcoholic hitman who attempts to piece his life together. Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) is a New York hitman that's got a drinking problem (notable as he hilariously drinks Vodka out of a mug ...  Read the complete review

You Kill Me is a 2007 comedy-drama film starring Ben Kingsley in the main role of Polish-American hitman Frank Falenczyk part of a Polish crime family in Buffalo, NY. Business doesn't look good for the Polish mafia as they are being pushed out by the Irish and Afro-Americans. Frank loves his booze and this has started to effect his work, he's gone from being a good hitman to a liability and failure to shoot a rival boss (he fell asleep) leads his family to send him away to California in the hope of sobering him up. He is sent to AA meetings and has a love/hate relationship with them, the acting is supreme first as a useless drunk and later when you ...  Read the complete review

You Kill Me is the story of Frank, a hitman for a Polish crime family in Buffalo, NY. He is extremely good at his job, when he is sober. Frank's problem is that he is very rarely sober, in fact he is an out and out alcoholic. When he screws up an important hit on the boss of a rival gang his own boss doesn't take too kindly to his failure. Frank is given one choice, his boss cannot trust him to do his job correctly and cannot trust him not to join a rival gang if he kicks him loose, and that is to go across the country to San Francisco, clean himself up and see if he can become the man he once was again. He is watched over in SF by Dave (Bill Pullman) ...  Read the complete review