PLEASE KILL MR. KNOW IT ALL (Colin Carter, Sandra Feldman). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (May 17). For venues and times, see listings. Rating: NN
Please Kill Mr. Know It All starts out with a great premise – I’ll give it that.
Bookish advice columnist Sally (Lara Jean Chorostecki) needs to come up with a face to accompany her masculine byline, so she gives her editors a sketch of a man she saw at a movie theatre. Unfortunately, that’s Albert (Jefferson Brown), a professional assassin whose livelihood – and life – depends on anonymity. And now he’s known to everyone – but for the wrong reasons.
The notion of a ruthless killer being constantly approached in the street for relationship advice is kind of genius – and would make a killer sketch or short film. But screenwriter Sandra Feldman (who co-directed with Colin Carter) sticks to the rom-com playbook, making the misidentification just the first in a series of wacky misunderstandings that bring Sally and Albert together.
But the characters aren’t that interesting, and the movie’s modest ambition prevents anything interesting from happening to them.
