You Kill Me

You Kill Me (2007) starring Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Philip Baker Hall, Dennis Farina. Lukewarm black comedy in which Kingsley plays a hit man who botches a job because he's an alcoholic. His Polish crime family banishes him from Buffalo to San Francisco, where he is supposed to dry out. There he meets a woman (Leoni) and falls in love. But there is still unfinished business in Buffalo, and he is obliged to go back and set things right. Attempt at comedy flops mostly because one has trouble feeling sympathy for a hit man. On top of that, it's just not believable, even if you accept the premise. (Subtitles in English for the hearing-impaired are available, which is a good thing because closed captions are not provided.) Grade: B-