12/3/2023 0 Comments Looks that kill real faceIf it wasn’t the idea of a romantic comedy with such an offbeat premise, it was the wonderfully understated deadpan of Kellen Moore’s sense of humour. Looks That Kill ended up completely winning me over. Max (Brandon Flynn) and Alex (Julia Goldani Telles) go on a movie date This is a film that you can’t help but think could with a 180 degree twist have easily been turned into a superhero film – Max is not dissimilar to Rogue’s deadly kiss in X-Men (2000) and you could easily imagine Max being taken in by Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. If there was any precedent to compare Looks That Kill to it might be the weirdly funny Nice Girls Don’t Explode (1987) about a girl whose dates have a habit of bursting into flames. Did I mention that my humour runs to the very black and my all-time favourite romcom is Harold and Maude (1971)? Any film that offers up a Meet Cute where the guy is in the process of jumping from a bridge and the girl walks by and strikes up a cheerful conversation about how they need to find a better bridge because that one is not tall enough for him to kill himself from hits the level of mordant humour that strikes a note with me. On the other hand, there are always exceptions in any genre. I’m the first to agree that most romcoms are drivel – I recently wrote an essay on the topic here at Romantic Comedies and was stretching to find any worth recommending. If you are going to let your prejudices against an entire genre rule then please stop reading now, otherwise I’d implore you to give this one a chance. There is going to be a certain percentage of you that are just going to stop reading the moment I mention that Looks That Kill is a Romantic Comedy. They strike up an attraction, even though Max cannot allow her to see his face. Max becomes enchanted with Alex and contrives to meet her again. She invites him along with her to visit an old people’s home. He is about to jump from a bridge when he meets Alex whom he had previously spoken to in a hospital waiting room. After his first date proves a washout, Max decides he wants to end it all. His only friend is Dan who encourages him to find a girlfriend using a dating app. Now a teenager, Max keeps his face hidden behind bandages and sunglasses. His parents moved to the nowhere town of Blegh, Massachusetts and Max has been home-schooled. Ever since birth, Max Richards has had the ability to cause anybody who looks at him to drop dead, beginning with his delivery room doctors.
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