Kill Me Three Times

Simon Pegg plays "the delightful bastard," handlebar-mustachioed assassin Charlie Wolfe in the "Rashomon"-flavored "Kill Me Three Times," directed Kriv Stenders, Australia's answer to Quentin Tarantino with his implementation of jangly music and casual killings (with a dash of John Woo's slomo blood squibs).

Set in the fictional southwestern Aussie surfing town of Eagle's Nest (mostly filmed south of Perth), the plots twist around adulteress Alice (Alice Braga, niece of Sonia), attempting to escape her violent, alcoholic, bar-owning husband Jack (Callan Mulvey) with dopey beefcake boyfriend Dylan (Luke Hemsworth); as well as her spineless, gambling-addicted dentist brother Nathan (Sullivan Stapleton) and his femme fatale, Lady Macbeth-inspired wife Lucy (Teresa Palmer).

The differing perspectives of the interlocking plots and time jumps make the players in their darkly comic circumstances seem "like a fucking open air insane asylum," observes psychopath Wolfe, who opens the film with "Fuck me. I can't believe I'm going to die in this place."

Special features include commentaries, a deleted scene, visual galleries, part of an opening screening Q&A, and a "Making of" featurette, where Stenders appreciates the mash-up of genres and time periods, and likens the roar of Wolfe's vintage Oldsmobile Toronado to the portentous "Jaws" theme.

Pegg talks about his respect for Aussie actor Bryan Brown, who plays corrupt cop Bruce, and says he negotiated his shoot time to two weeks so he wouldn't be away from his daughter for too long because "you know, actors, they're dicks."

Mulvey said that "if this movie were a car, it would be a '69 Dodge Charger: fast, fun, well-engineered, and a helluva ride."

"Kill Me Three Times"
Blu-ray
$14.99
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