If Looks Could Kill movie review (1991)
`If Looks Could Kill" is one of those zany capers that come along occasionally to remind us of the pleasures of Wretched Excess. The movie tells a bizarre story about middle Americans trapped inside the byzantine intrigues of Europe, and is perhaps the only film I can recall in which a mad economist traps an entire Detroit high school French class in an iron cage suspended above a cauldron of boiling gold. At first, it appears the movie is only going to be another one of those brain-damaged caper ripoffs in which boring people do stupid things at half the pace of real life. Then it turns on t...
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