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You Kill Me is billed as a killer com­edy and that’s exactly what it is. Ben Kings­ley plays the part of the fam­ily killer who is also an alco­holic. The drink­ing is inter­fer­ing with his job and when it causes him to miss a key hit, the fam­ily sends him to San Fran­cisco to dry out and get it together. He get’s set up with an apart­ment and a part-time job at a mor­tu­rary get­ting dead bod­ies ready for their funeral. While at work he meets Téa Leoni’s char­ac­ter who has her own issues and they embark upon a rela­tion­ship. At this point Ben Kingsley’s char­ac­ter has been an alco­holic so long, he doesn’t remem­ber being any other way. With the help of his new love inter­est (Leoni) and his AA spon­sor played by Luke Wil­son, he works to find his way which couldn’t hap­pen too soon because the last guy he missed killing is mak­ing life more than a lit­tle tough for the peo­ple he’s left behind.

There were a lot of rec­og­niz­able actors in this movie and I’d say the movie was well acted as a whole. Even Luke Wil­son wasn’t ter­ri­ble and while Téa Leoni’s char­ac­ter was a bitch, she was quite a like­able one. The film is def­i­nitely a com­edy but it’s not really laugh out loud funny though it does make you smile a lot. Ben Kings­ley is awe­some and the movie is really just plain fun … even when it tries to be seri­ous. I give it a 3 and a half out of 5 marks but I’m con­sid­er­ing giv­ing it 4. Here’s the trailer: