Love Comes to the Executioner (2006) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

USA 2006
Director: Kyle Bergersen
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jeremy Renner, Christine Ebersole, Tom Malee
Rating: R
Release Date: 15 August 2006
Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes

The Movie Review

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Love comes to the Executioner film still


LOVE COMES To The EXECUTIONER
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Sometimes comedy would go as far as possible to make fun out of something, about physical appearance, IQ, politic, race, a-n-y-thing. But I do rarely find a comedy movie makes fun out of death penalty. Something that usually treated with carefulness not with laugh. A move that I personally think has crossed the border of proper laugh. If you ever want to make a movie about death sentence, make darn sure it will be a funny one.

Love comes to the Executioner, as is written all over on its title, is of course about an executioner that falls in love with one of the inmates slated for death penalty. Jonathan Tucker is the executioner. He roles as Hack, initially just an ordinary college graduate looking for a job in his hometown, but there isn't any single employer wants to give him job, because of the reputation of Hack's older brother Chick (Jeremy Renner) that has killed several hack's own friends just because Hack borrowed Chick's car without permission.

Finally Hack is offered a job as Closure (executioner) in a jail where Chick is slated for death penalty. Hack eventually loves his job, plus he could avenge his friends’ death to his brother. But what Hack doesn't expect is the sudden strike of love on Chick's ex-girlfriend Dori (Ginnifer Goodwin), who is also slated for execution. This awkward love triangle would lead their fate through weird path.

Again speaking of comedy taste, as something that would either make you laugh or instead make you sick is relative. I just want fellow moviegoers to realize that this comedy film is a movie that try to pull some jokes out of devastating moments. And for me personally, it's not funny. There is already a movie that could make the audience smile and genuinely laugh at depressing moments in the movie, it's entitled Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), a movie by Roberto Benigni back in 1997. But Love Comes to the Executioner fails to deliver the needed laugh. Instead it feels solely more like a set of mockery to the situation.

Fortunately (or not), Jonathan Tucker and the other actors perform very well. However their dialogue is poor and uninteresting. And being a comedy movie, there are several snigger-evoking short moments spread out in its running length. But then again, this comedy flick is a dark comedy with improper laughing stock. This movie in some point is actually classy, but classy in the wrong place.

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