Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly was one odd movie. I preferred the second ending we saw where it doesn't show the characters escaping the house. I liked the second shorter ending better because when it didn't show them make it out it seemed like that was what it was building up to, plus the characters got pretty annoying so I was glad they died. I didn't like the longer ending where they make it out of the house, because then it doesn't seem like it is ready to end yet. And in the longer ending Mike Hammer was shot but then he gets out of the house alive, but will probably just die anyway. The end of the movie was really weird no matter which ending you watch. The glowing box of doom was ridiculous, also how Mike got information out of people was pretty funny. He would either slap them across the face a few times or break their records, both funny. I don't understand how this is considered by some to be the ultimate film noir. I thought that it started out pretty boring and then just got crazy as it went on. At the start of the movie it seemed to be more normal and realistic but that was all lost as it went on. The plot didn't explain many things like how the girl from the beginning of the movie tied into the other characters besides she had a key.