![]() ![]() Wolfe is badly wounded, but he is still miraculously able to talk on phone and get another job. Alice comes out of nowhere and clobbers Wolfe with an ax. ![]() Wolfe shoots Dylan, but only hits his shoulder. At the door Dylan comes pointing a gun at Wolfe, but Wolfe slaps Dylan's hand, making him shoot Lucy dead. They quarrel, and Wolfe says hes leaving her. Wolfe arrives at Nathan and Lucy's, where its revealed that Wolfe and Lucy had been conspiring together to get all the money, even though Lucy curses him for killing Nathan, which prevents them from claiming the insurance money from killing Alice. Dylan didn't really leave, and he follows Wolfe as soon as Wolfe come out of Jack's. ![]() Bruce comes and finds Wolfe with Jacks corpse and Wolfe kills him. Wolfe comes to Jack's after killing Nathan, only to find Jack dead. The next day, Dylan comes barging in asking about Alice disappearing. Wolfe comes to collect his payment from Jack, Jack finds that his money is gone and assumes Alice has taken it. At the meeting Wolfe ends up killing Nathan, saying to him that hell complete the work by killing Lucy. He then sets up a meeting with the sender, who is Wolfe. Nathan receives an anonymous message of someone seeing them carrying Alice's body. Bruce finds Lucy's burning car and comes extorting extra money from Nathan. ![]() Wolfe meets Jack confirming Alice's death. Nathan and Alice quarrel about Alice's money but they keep it. Its shown that Alice actually wakes up and avoids the explosion. Wolfe follows Alice for the kill and he spots Nathan and Lucy on their scheme. Meanwhile a policeman, Bruce, who has been extorting money from Nathan and Lucy, comes and muscles out Nathans payment commitment. The next day Wolfe shows the video to Jack, who is angry and tells Wolfe to kill Alice. Wolfe tails Alice and records Alice and Dylan having sex. Jack hires Wolfe to tail Alice, who had previously gone from Jack's place with Jack's money. In a flashback, Alice's husband Jack is jealous of Alice and suspicious that she's having an affair. Driving Alice's car, Lucy spots money in Alice's bag under the seat and keeps it. Nathan and Lucy then put Alice in Lucy's car, put Lucy's jewelry on Lucy, set the car on fire, and let it roll into a ravine where it explodes. They prepare to switch Lucy into Lucy's car, but she wakes and gets away. As they prepare to burn Alice's VW bug, Nathan accidentally rolls it into the quarry. On the way to a quarry, Nathan stops for gas at Dylan's shop. Kill Me Three Times has elements that would seem to peg it (no pun intended) as a fun genre exercise, including pitch-black humor, corrupt law enforcement, a love of rural settings, and a. But instead, Nathan and Lucy drug Alice, kidnap her, and prepare to murder her, all the while Wolfe watches from afar. Alice wakes up and arranges an appointment with her dentist Nathan through his wife/assistant Lucy. Otherwise, this is at most passable entertainment for those who really love dark, violent thrillers with a hint of comic relief.Charlie Wolfe is a fixer who, in the middle of a murder, gets a call, to which he answers that he'll be there in an hour. The only compelling reason to stick with it is to put all the pieces together, since the movie isn't told in chronological order, and audiences will legitimately want to know whether - and how - a couple of characters scrape out of their seemingly dead-end situations. While it's mildly entertaining to see the third Hemsworth without his shirt off, that's hardly a reason to see a movie. Perhaps Stenders was banking on Pegg's presence alone, but it's not enough. The biggest problem with Kill Me Three Times is that the humor is pretty nonexistent. The ruthless but carefree killer isn't an amoral philosopher like Anton Chigurh or duty-bound to his rules like Leon the Professional he just has to make his living, and if he can double cross a few people to make even more money, so be it. Director Kriv Stenders' effort lacks the style and the screenwriting to pull off such an ambitious endeavor, but it does, at the very least, feature a few decent actors, like Pegg, Palmer, and Braga, and Pegg looks like he's having fun as Charlie. This lackluster Aussie thriller is reminiscent of Guy Ritchie-style heist flicks in which hit-men, con men, and all sorts of unsavory characters compete for a treasure, bragging rights, and more. ![]()
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