A Kiss So Deadly (1996)

Very well executed

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Blistering performances.

Spoiler alert...if you're interested...So there's three college roommates--Catherine, June, and Amanda. We learn that Amanda is a fairly promiscuous girl pretty early on in the movie. When Catherine's father, Tom, comes to visit, he sees Amanda half-naked and is immediately smitten with her. They sleep together twice before he becomes obsessed. Later on, when Amanda is finished with work one night, she asks her boss to walk her to her car, but he's on the phone. For whatever reason, she decides not to wait and is murdered in her car.From there, the plot drags on as Catherine becomes hysterical and angry while everyone's trying to figure out who killed Amanda. Meanwhile, Tom is taunted by the "creepy stalker guy" that has been watching the three girls, and tries to take advantage of June.So anyone who bothered to watch this movie is wondering, what was the point of the creepy stalker guy, and why did he send pictures of Amanda's murder when it was believed he murdered her? Tom admits in the end that he killed her; clearly the stalker guy is quite perceptive and knew what was going on, knew about Tom's obsession and wanted him to get caught.There are a lot of wasted roles in this movie, which is sad--June, Catherine's mother, and Catherine's boyfriend, Todd. If there wasn't so much time spent on the ridiculous situation of Amanda and Tom, they could have been put to better use. The police are quite gun-happy and shoot without caring--they killed the stalker trying to break in the house and they killed Tom, even though he wanted to die, when they were told to hold their fire.All in all, this is just an odd movie--I finished it shaking my head, wondering, "What did I just watch?" Don't bother with this movie unless you can't find anything else to watch--it's not worth the two hours.

Flipping though channels while home sick one day, I came upon this movie on Lifetime. What caught my attention was that it starred Charles Shaughnessy and Charlotte Ross. When I read the synopsis of the movie, I thought they would be playing father & daughter....however, I was surprised to see them as lovers since they played father & daughter on Days of Our Lives back in the late 80's & early 90's. I think they were pretty convincing in this movie. I didn't really think of the characters they played on DOOL. The movie was okay. Pretty predictable. It was not a movie that I would go out of my way to see but not bad when nothing else is on.

This is a strange movie, and is also very predictable. It was something to watch on a boring Saturday afternoon, but anyone who buys it on DVD will seriously regret it. It was really weird seeing Charles Shaughnessy making out with Charlotte Ross considering he played her father many years ago on Days of Our Lives...I'm sure it was uncomfortable for the actors too. I've seen a lot worse movies, but I definitely wouldn't watch this one a second time! The ending was both a bit of a shock but also kind of stupid...I mean, when your commanding officer tells you not to shoot, you shoot anyway? With the guy's daughter standing right there? Messed up ending if you ask me. Anyway, this movie's not so bad if you're really really bored and don't mind predictability, but I wouldn't have wasted a warm Saturday afternoon watching this movie if I weren't suffering from a bad cold.

Viewed this TV show a few times over the years and still enjoy the great talents of Charles Shaughnessy(Tom Deese) "The Nanny" '93 TV Series and Charlotte Ross (Amanda Blake)"NYPDBLUE" '93&'01. It is hard to believe that these two actors were able to play these out of character roles from what we have previously seen them perform in. This is a good signal that they are both great actors. Their sexy, warm and passionate love scenes over powered the entire film, with Tom Deese being married and having a daughter about the same age as Amanda Blake. It is no wonder that Tom Deese decided to cool off in the ocean and calm down! Great TV show, sit back and enjoy a great murder plot.