Kiss Me Deadly: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] Reviews

Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly is a film that neatly bridges the cinematic eras between film noir and the slicker, sleeker private eye dramas of the late 1950s and 1960s. It’s a breathless film masterfully directed and featuring the typical hard-boiled characters and rough, seedy locales that one comes to expect with a private eye drama set in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. The fact that it was made on a low budget actually helps it now as a barebones film of the period where the narrative and characters carry the day with very little in the way of superfluous glitz to distract from what’s going on. 

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