Watch Out for Obsessive Young Men!
Added 2/28/2009
A Kiss Before Dying is a movie that I enjoy watching when I'm bored. It isn't a great movie, but it's fun to watch Sean Young, as the twin of a murdered young woman (killed by Matt Dillon's character), as she attempts to prove that her sister did not commit suicide.
In the beginning, I especially liked the somber child staring out at a train - incidentally one with the name of a powerful family on the side - and then follow his machinations as he grows up obsessed with this very family. The twins, of course, are members of the family and heirs to a gigantic fortune.
I originally saw the movie at the theater, and then bought the VHS version. Only recently did I acquire the DVD.
It is one film that I like having in my collection for those moments when I'm in the mood for a suspenseful thriller that doesn't ever fail to engage my attention.
Laurel-Rain Snow
Author of: Web of Tyranny, etc.
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INTERESTING THRILLER, BUT.............!
Added 2/20/2009
I had seen this film many years ago and saw it was coming on one of my HD channel, so I thought I would give it another look. I like Matt Dillon and he does an adequate job in this so-so thriller. The story is interesting enough, but too many plot holes, a quick resolution and mediocre acting do this one in. It's not a bad watch, if you have nothing else to do though.
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3 out of 5
Added 2/19/2009
This was a good old skool thriller, kinda predictable but good, a young Matt Dillon still looks the same. I would watch it again, good ironic ending. Greed is not GOOD!
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a kiss before dying still scares me after all these years
Added 1/26/2009
please don't listen to the negative reviews about this movie. this is one suspense film that did give me nightmares after watching it. Matt Dillon plays the perfect cold and calculating killer. Sean Young was not as bad in this movie as everyone says. but yet she wasn't perfect. Matt is the guy that made this movie good and suspenseful but i was glad when he got hit by a train at the end.The opening death scene was pretty shocking and when he found Sean Young at the mother's house i was sure she was gonna get it for sure. if you love a movie with alot of violence,supsense,and a hot sex scene then you will love this . I have one word for the origional version of this movie: BORING. watch this before you watch the 1956 version with robert wagner. Matt dillion is more mennacing
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A thriller, not a great one, but a thriller nonetheless
Added 7/16/2007
This is the type of movie that separates me from most movie critics. They said this was awful, poorly directed, incompetently acted, foolishly presented and an insult to the 1956 original and book. One critic went so far as to say Sean Young played two roles (twins) which gave her the opportunity to play two roles poorly.
I don't argue with any of that. My wife guessed one of the principal clues about 5 mintues into the movie. However, I have to say this movie was interesting from the opening scene and it kept me and my wife involved throughout. It may have been bad but it was effective. It had great studio values and the overly dramatic musical score gave some scenes an affect they didn't have otherwise. Its violent scenes had more of a surreal-life 1970s aura than the cliinically, computer graphic displayed overlay of a 1990s movie. It is also the first film I've ever seen where a train runs over someone (not too graphically).
If you haven't seen "A Kiss Before Dying", the story involves a disturbed young man (Matt Dillon) who romances one sister, then her twin, (and kills a few people in the process) to gain access to her rich dad's wealth. It's taken from a popular 1950s book by Ira Levin and this is the second film treatment, the first coming in 1956 with then-young Robert Wagner in the role of the psycho.
Critics everywhere lamabasted this film as being inane, overdone, sophomoric and so excessively violent it bordered on exploitation. All I can say about that is I tried to watch "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" the night before and was so bored by the silly thing I turned it off after a half-hour. Meanwhile, I stood attentive to "A Kiss Before Dying" to the bitter end, which I might add introduces questions not resolved during the story.
Maybe this says something about my taste in movies. I'm betting it also says something about the entertainment values in films and I think there's more of it in this one than a lot of people want to admit.
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Watch Out for Obsessive Young Men!
Added 2/28/2009
A Kiss Before Dying is a movie that I enjoy watching when I'm bored. It isn't a great movie, but it's fun to watch Sean Young, as the twin of a murdered young woman (killed by Matt Dillon's character), as she attempts to prove that her sister did not commit suicide.
In the beginning, I especially liked the somber child staring out at a train - incidentally one with the name of a powerful family on the side - and then follow his machinations as he grows up obsessed with this very family. The twins, of course, are members of the family and heirs to a gigantic fortune.
I originally saw the movie at the theater, and then bought the VHS version. Only recently did I acquire the DVD.
It is one film that I like having in my collection for those moments when I'm in the mood for a suspenseful thriller that doesn't ever fail to engage my attention.
Laurel-Rain Snow
Author of: Web of Tyranny, etc.
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INTERESTING THRILLER, BUT.............!
Added 2/20/2009
I had seen this film many years ago and saw it was coming on one of my HD channel, so I thought I would give it another look. I like Matt Dillon and he does an adequate job in this so-so thriller. The story is interesting enough, but too many plot holes, a quick resolution and mediocre acting do this one in. It's not a bad watch, if you have nothing else to do though.
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3 out of 5
Added 2/19/2009
This was a good old skool thriller, kinda predictable but good, a young Matt Dillon still looks the same. I would watch it again, good ironic ending. Greed is not GOOD!
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