Yes, the movie could be over in the first 5 minutes with a bit of practical logic. Yes, you can see the plot twists coming 10 miles away. Yes it doesn't feel very polished in some ways. But it is definitely one of those "journey is more important than the destination" and if you keep your suspension of disbelief, it is an interesting and enjoyable movie. It's fairly well directed, with great acting performances and very good score. Overall I'm not sure why I liked it more than I should, so i'd recommend watching it and make your own opinion.

Caught this on Netflix this past Wednesday afternoon and was pleasantly surprised.

"THe SUicide Theory" is a gritty, low-budget thriller about a hit- man who comes into contact with man who wants to be killed. Seems like a match made in heaven right? Wrong. I won't go into the plot much further, but to say that the premise is fresh and exciting is, imo, an under-statement.

The film is far from perfect. The make-up looks pretty bad on a nice 4k TV, and i can't say that I didn't see nearly every plot twist from a mile away, i did.

But the film still delivers. The acting is surprisingly strong. The plot may not be figured-out by everybody either(not that I'm smarter than anybody, the ideas just hit me right at the right time - you know when you catch a plot twist right when it's set-up).

Our lead here in particular is great. His melancholy attitude, along with his cold-heartedness, somehow allows his character to develop and change throughout the film. To me it's these changes that add a certain depth to the film. "The Suicide THeory" does have something to say among all this this violence and macabre. It gets deeper and more thought provoking as it goes.

I can recommend this flick without question, but go-in knowing that the writing is hit and miss, at times fantastic, at others a little lazy, and the production values pull away from some decent direction. BUt the acting, the premise, and what turns out to be quite a roller- coaster ride, makes-up for just about everything else.

I'm not only giving this a passing grade - I'm edging onto the top 25 for 2015(#16 for now, that's 45 movies through the now 88 watchlist - I'd say rt now it's at the projected cut-off) It could hold onto a spot comes next spring, but it will be close. Easily the lowest budget film to make the list so far, and is a shoe-in for my "Jeremy's B Movie Marathon Lists".

You might like this if you liked:"Bringing Out The Dead"(better production values but not better movie),Spiral(similarly low-budget and similar in quality),and Shuffle(slightly better, but probably right there with TST as one of my favorite ultra-low-budget films of the last decade.

It takes a lot for a film of this stature to earn a 7/10 ranking in my book. Let alone make my top 25. Check this one out.

69/100

Took a chance on this based on the description on Amazon Prime, even though, more often than not, the synopsis turns out to be terribly inaccurate. In this case, it wasn't totally off-base, and I found the movie interesting throughout. The 'twist' seemed fairly obvious, though I kept wondering when the main characters would figure it out, and I thought the ending was excellent (so many movies seem to end so suddenly, you wonder if the writer just ran out of ideas). Definitely recommend.