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Actors: Wilbur Scott, Timothy C. Arthur, Melissa Green
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about I Must Kill |
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Don Walters (Wilbur Scott) is a newspaper salesman who lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. One day, while out in the woods with his friend Robin (Melissa Green), the two of them discover a woman's dismembered hand lying on the ground. Taking it back to his home, Don decides to call the police as well as his friends: Steve, an annoying man who only says his name and "Ok"; Carrie, Robin's white-trash twin sister who mistreats her baby; and 'Uncle' Mike, a babbling alcoholic who likes to scream 'POW!' every other word or so. Don and Robin are both eager to find out where the hand came from, and believing someone may be injured out in the vast wilderness surrounding them (and with the nearest police hours away), decide to split the group up to find out just what happened.
After some unsuccessful sleuthing, Mike goes back to his apartment and gets drunk. Having a dream in which he sees Don make love to a woman wearing the same ring found on the disembodied hand, he returns to snoop around Don's always-locked garage and is murdered in the process with a meat cleaver. Shortly afterwards, Detective Kennedy (Timothy C. Arthur) arrives to the house, an arrogant, self-centered cop who vows to bust the case wide open, proclaiming all of them to be suspect. Joining the dull Steve (whom Kennedy believes is the only one dumb enough not to have killed anyone), the two of them search out in the woods, where they find a blood-crusted machete, and then trace the clues back to Don's locked garage, where Don is waiting inside with the answers to the mystery.
--Jason Hose, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of I Must Kill |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Somewhat obvious
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 90%
Murders of set profession?
- businessmen
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- best friend
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Forest?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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