Bill (Bill Oberst Jr. ) stresses very easily, especially with rude people on cell phones. He discovers that killing people lowers his blood pressure. With the help of a friend, Bill reduces his stress with poisonous blow darts. Yup. No heads exploding. Detective Paul Jordon (Armand Assante) a bit of a vigilante himself, tails the two.
Killing with a blowgun is about as exciting as a Vulcan nerve pinch. Bill was a boring character who never really looked stressed, he would just hold it in.
Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity.
Stressed to Kill
2016
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot summary
After suffering a violent heart attack, Bill is advised by his doctor to lower his blood pressure by eliminating the stresses from his life. Taking his doctor's advice literally, Bill starts killing everyday people who irritate him with poisoned darts. The killings lower Bill's blood pressure for a while but attract the attention of Detective Jordan, an enigmatic cop who plays a strange cat and mouse game with Bill as he tries to decide whether he should arrest him or join him in his campaign. As the cop begins to make Bill's life a living hell, stresses closer to home ramp up his blood pressure, and Bill puts his best friend Stan's ex-wife on his hit list. Convinced that their friendship won't last until Stan's ex- is dead, the two men concoct a plan to get rid of her that will look like a heart attack. Although they get away with the murder, anomalies in the forensic report suggest that the ex- was poisoned. Suspecting a connection between the the "Dartman" and the poisoned woman, Detective Jordan manufactures a crazy scheme to flush Bill out as the killer he's looking for. With his blood pressure at an all-time high, Bill is forced to endure Jordan's insanity as he works to extract himself and Stan from the investigation. Now targeting his own wife and her lover, Bill takes drastic measures to derail Jordan, stay out of jail, and maintain both his physical and mental health. Bill's calculated attempt to frame another man for the dart killings forces detective Jordan to face the truth and confront his own demons.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Armand Assante as Paul Jordan
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720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 939.76 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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Are you ready to exterminate?
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Indie black comedy
STRESSED TO KILL is a black comedy made on an indie budget which turns out to be a lot better than expected. A lot of that is down to the main performance from Bill Oberst Jr., one of the hardest-working indie stars in cinema today. Oberst is excellent as the mild-mannered protagonist who visits a doctor who advises him to improve his health by eliminating all stresses from his life. Oberst takes this advice literally by using poisoned blow darts to kill anyone who annoys him. It's a quirky premise and one that plays out on the cheap, but the direction is solid and it's occasionally very amusing. Armand Assante co-stars as a psycho cop.
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Poisoned arrows to decrease the blood pressure
In Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train"(1951),two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants disposed of. In "Stressed to Kill" (2016) history repeats itself, only this time the protagonists are two very good friends. One of them he does more than that, he first train himself by killing several very annoying people that appear in his pathetic existence, managing to escape the stress permanently produced by his own wife, who has an affair with a big belly idiot. Bill Oberst Jr. is very effective in the role of Bill Johnson. I found myself in the character, I do not like neither to be bothered by morons in cinemas. The difference is that I do not kill people. I beat a few, that's right, on several occasions, in different theaters at different films. Armand Assante is OK in the role of unorthodox policeman and a little mental disturbed himself. The movie is good but I would have liked it more faster, more dynamic, it has some moments when the pace is too slow.