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ucuruju

where my Blankies at?

4 months 3 weeks ago

I Love You to Death as the right elements in place to be a strong black comedy about trying to kill your philandering husband, but it doesn't really work. I think the problem is Kevin Kline doing an Italian accent and more or less acting like a cartoon villain (if cartoon villains went around having sex with everyone). I don't much believe River Phoenix as the boy in love with his wife either. Tracy Ullman playing Kline's somewhat naive wife is on another level entirely. She's real, and touching, and the film's moral center. For comedy performances, we have William Hurt and Keanu Reeves as hapless would-be hired killers, and those bits work in a sort of heightened Coen Bros./Elmore Leonard kind of way. Certainly, the plot isn't predictable, and that's to the movie's advantage, but I Love You to Death falls a little flat. Whether that's the difficult character of the husband, or the way things are resolved in the end, or the difficult-to-believe motivations, I'm not sure. In the watchable column, but I feel like it should have succeeded more given what it had to work with.

4 years 8 months ago