{"id":30695,"date":"2019-03-06T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30695"},"modified":"2019-03-06T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:25:58","slug":"kiss-kiss-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/kiss-kiss-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss Kiss (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I knew I was in trouble with \u201cKiss Kiss\u201d when twenty minutes in, the film had shifted to its third musical montage involving our female characters. \u201cKiss Kiss\u201d is not only incredibly silly, but insanely boring to the point where I shut it down once the credits showed. I didn\u2019t even want to soak in what was basically just an excuse to show women bouncing around and inflicting pain on one another for ninety excruciating minutes.<\/p>\n

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Erotic dancers Kiss, Treasure, Kurious and new dancer Tia are anxious to unwind after a hard week stripping. After getting a gift certificate for a wine tasting tour the bubble headed brigade end up touring a farm and drinking themselves in to a stupor. They awaken the next morning to learn they\u2019ve been drugged and that they\u2019re being used as test subjects for a military experiment. Forced to do battle with one another to the death, leader Kiss has to figure a way out as her friends fall victim to the hand to hand combat.<\/p>\n

\u201cKiss Kiss\u201d is awful, it comes off like a low-fi remake of the infinitely superior \u201cRaze,\u201d that manages to feel so much more exploitative and never as brutal. I don\u2019t know how you can base your entire film around the promise of women going toe to toe, then film all of your fights in slow motion with quick cuts. Along with the shoddy choreography, and sloppy editing, there are also the terrible performances from the entire cast, all of whom vary from wooden to incredibly over the top. Not a single woman manages to deliver something of an empathetic portrayal of their thinly drawn characters, but Robert Wagner is the highlight.<\/p>\n

As Gibson, the millionaire\/military industrialist (?), he\u2019s so over the top and cheesy it dips back and forth from cheesy to painful. Yes, the women are beautiful, but once \u201cKiss Kiss\u201d gets in to the thick of its ridiculous narrative, I was continuously distracted. Why experiment on strippers? Why women? Why normal American citizens? What is Gibson trying to prove to his buyers by making women fight one another to the death? Who invented the super soldier serum? What are its potential uses? Why do the girls put on war make up and glitter just to fight to the death in a top secret ring? \u201cKiss Kiss\u201d watches like goofy late night cable softcore erotica, and it\u2019s a shame as the premise has oodles of potential to be great. In the end, you\u2019re just better off with some MMA.<\/p>\n

Now on various VOD platforms; will be on DVD on May 14th<\/sup>.<\/strong>
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