‘Kill Me If You Dare’ Netflix Movie Review - For the Love of Money

Filip Zylber's Kill Me If You Dare is a movie that seems to focus more on showcasing lavish scenery than on developing its "plot" or characters. It's 1 hour and 34 minutes of excited screaming like, "Look at those spacious rooms! Look at that beautiful greenery! Look at that presidential suite!" The characters in these films talk about financial strain but also have friends who take them to luxurious hotels for help. Who needs to worry about a job when you have rich friends?

Let's not ask Kill Me If You Dare to become "realistic." Instead, let's evaluate it based on its own standards and see if it's worth watching. The movie is intended to provide an "escape from reality" by taking you to places you may never see with your own eyes. However, the abundance of vicarious pleasures available through YouTube videos and magazines begs the question - why should you spend your time on this film? In all honesty, there's no valid reason. Kill Me If You Dare's foundation is weak. It relies on silly contrivances that make you question if the filmmakers consider their audience foolish. There's an absence of genuine emotion or wit in the movie. It runs on autopilot, and during the climax, it creates something absurd by drawing "inspiration" from the comedy-slasher genre and replicating a scene from The Shining. The movie concludes with an obligatory happy ending.

The bond between Natalia (Weronika Książkiewicz) and her husband, Piotr (Mateusz Banasiuk), is very flimsy. Kill Me If You Dare opens with a vague incident where Piotr runs to the station and asks Natalia if she would marry him. How did these two characters meet? What was she doing at his place before this opening? The shallowness of this relationship is further exposed when the cracks appear in their marriage because of a cash prize. Suddenly (due to incomplete information), the couple thinks the other partner wants to take their life so that they can keep the whole money. The wife suspects her husband wants to kill her. The husband suspects his wife wants to kill him. Even their dim-witted friends, Agata (Agnieszka Wiedlocha) and Lukasz (Piotr Rogucki) encourage them to devise elaborate murderous schemes.

All Natalia and Piotr had to do was talk to each other, and their doubts would have instantly disappeared. But then, there would have been no movie. So what? It's not like we are entertained through a series of excellent jokes and funny mishaps. Rather, we sit through dull - and dumb - events like the one where Natalia slips while hiking as Piotr gets distracted by Lukasz's presence. I might have made a statement like, "The movie will spark ugly discussions among couples during this Valentine's week," but Kill Me If You Dare is ineffective on every level. The air here is not filled with love but blandness.

Final Score- [3/10]
Reviewed by - Vikas Yadav
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Publisher at Midgard Times