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815.0. "Kiss Of Death" by BRAT::ALBERT () Mon Apr 24 1995 15:22

    Anyone hear anything good/bad on "Kiss of Death" with Samuel Jackson
    and David Caruso?
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815.1OOTOOL::CHELSEAMostly harmless.Mon Apr 24 1995 15:432
    It's getting mixed reviews.  Some critics think Caruso and Cage are
    fantastic, some think they screwed up their parts.  Not much help.
815.2REMAKE?MAL009::RAGUCCIMon Apr 24 1995 19:317
    
    I want to see it. Is it a re-make from the 40's or 50's.
    with Richard Widmark???
    
    
    
    BR
815.3I want to see it, too.KIDVAX::DESOURDISTue Apr 25 1995 16:477
    > Is it a re-make from the 40's or 50's with Richard Widmark?  
    
    It is a remake, with Cage and Caruso in (more or less) the parts played
    in the 1947 original by Widmark and Victor Mature.  I have no idea how
    far it strays from the original story, but I am anxious to find out.  
    
    Ron D.
815.4MAL009::RAGUCCITue Apr 25 1995 23:348
    
    thanks, I'll have to rent the original first, then check-out the new.
    
    
    
    sounds good:
    
    
815.5STAR::NCARRTalk dates & features - but never together....Wed Apr 26 1995 11:243
I saw it last weekend.

I enjoyed it. Great fun. Quite violent, weak ending.
815.6WBZPCBUOA::CHENARDFri Apr 28 1995 14:107
    Joyce Kulhawick (sp?) on NBZ gave it a definite thumbs up.  Says
    that David Caruso did an excellent job and he will do well in
    the movies.  I don't know if I will go see it but will
    definitely rent it when it comes out.
    
    Mo
    
815.7USCTR1::WOOLNERYour dinner is in the supermarketFri Apr 28 1995 16:296
    "NBZ" - I like that!!
    
    But personally I can hardly sit through the *trailer* for "Kiss".
    Hearing the Chambers Bros. "Time" does redeem it somewhat  :-).
    
    Leslie
815.8HUMOR::EPPESI'm not making this up, you knowFri Apr 28 1995 23:027
>    "NBZ" - I like that!!

Too bad it's obsolete now, due to WBZ's becoming a CBS station in 
The Big Boston Network Affiliate Swap. (But that's TV, and this is MOVIES. :-))

-- Nina
    
815.9RecommendWECARE::FERRIGNOMon May 01 1995 14:099
    I saw this film over the weekend.  The acting was very good all around.
    Unlike the older version, more film noir, this version seemed to me to
    be morally ambiguous.  There are no clear-cut good guys and bad guys
    anymore -- everyone is a little of each.  Because of this ambiguity,
    when the film was over I had a feeling that nothing was resolved or
    settled.
    
    David Caruso was better than I had anticipated, which was a nice
    surprise.