 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Don’t Kill It • Year: 2016 • Country: USA • Director: Mike Mendez • Main cast: Dolph Lundgren, Kristina Klebe, Billy Slaughter • Runtime: 93 minutes • Production company: Archstone Pictures, Burning Sky Films, Bottom Line Entertainment • TRAILER |
Although all the reviews in this site are signed with an alias, here nobody knows who I am. That is why I am going to take the chance to rant a little about stuff nobody cares. The fact is I already dreamt a few months ago the basic plot from this movie Don’t Kill It. In my story, instead of being a sparsely populated Mississippi town, the action happened in a bar. And the fact that the demons were possessing the humans to slay the fellow kind was a mystery until the end.
But straight to the point, Don’t Kill It places its story in a kind of isolated town, where a FBI agent (played by Kristina Klebe in a role pretty similar to the one she briefly played in Tales of Halloween (2015)) joins forces with the local law enforment to solve the enigmatic case of why peaceful neighbours of their community suddenly started to kill eachother. Then the cops join forces with a stranger who claims to be a demon hunter and appears to have a theory about what is going on in the town. And yes, the demon hunter is played by our beloved Dolph Lundgren, clearly the best feature of this film.
With a powerful and thrilling startpoint, the movie gets diluted through the running time until you have the feeling you are watching a cheap product made with not much passion. Personally, that is something that surprised me. We all know the level of commitment Dolph Lundgren has when he gets involved in projects, even more in this case that he was personally presenting the movie at the Sitges Film Festival, in a pretty interesting press conference. And also director Mike Mendez, who didn’t invent anything but he has shown a big respect and love for genre movies with his previous works, the fully entertaining Big Ass Spider! (2013) and the mentioned before Tales of Halloween (2015) –read the review here–. But there is something in this film that doesn’t work as it should. As curiosity I digged into facts from this movie and I found that the director had only 12 days to prepare the shooting after the production got green light. Maybe that is what happened, producers and money madness that ended up affecting the final result of the film. And it’s a pity, because after the screening I had the feeling they wasted a very good story and a great chance to make something special, but it all felt kind of incomplete.
Anyway, Don’t Kill It is an entertaining film. It’s fun to watch, the story is catchy and it has some moments that might be retained in our memory. The other people I went with to the screening were pretty satisfied by the movie, but in my case I can’t help to have the feeling something didn’t work well, something is missing. But don’t worry, the door is open for sequels, let’s hope they have the chance to make a second one and this time it all goes as desired.
RATE: 5/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3113696
