Double Indemnity (1944)

****An iCheckMovies Listed Film Review****

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

An insurance agent returns to his office and begins confessing to a murder he committed for a woman, for money, and for naught as he ends up with neither.

He was an insurance salesman. Surely, he if anyone, could insure(wink) that the crime would look like an accident. But he worked for an insurance company. Surely he would know that they are bloodhounds and would dig super deep just to find a reason to avoid paying out.

This dude swore up and down that the murder was perfect too. He basically killed a dude and tried to make it look like he jumped from a train that was moving at the blazing speed of 15mph. The crazy part is, he probably would have gotten away with it if he hadn't went to her and bragged that she'd take the fall and not him. That was a dick move and he deserved everything that happened after.

I don't know what I expected when I sat down to watch this. I can say that movies have come a long way since then.

Violence? Yes
Explosions? No
Nudity? No

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Headshot (2012)

A cop who becomes a hitman for a group aimed at eliminating those who are above the law finds his world turned upside down by a single a devastating blow.

During a contract kill, an assassin,Tul, is shot in the head. His best friend manages to get him to a hospital and he barely makes it. Three months later he awakes, only to find that his vision has gone upside down.

We soon get Tul's backstory and see how he came to be this way.

Tul was a policeman who busted open a case implicating the Minister's brother and refuses a 10 Million Baht sum to back away. He then super coincidentally meets a sexy prostitute named Joy and gives her the business, only to find her dead in the bathtub the next morning. This of course lead to blackmail, to which he responded by nailing the dude with a steel chair. WWE style. That resulted in prison time, which effectively removed him from the case anyway.

In prison he was visited by Dr Demon, who offers him freedom in exchange for becoming one of his assassins. Basically killing high ranking corrupt officials who've escaped legal action. He accepts of course.

Back in the present, Tul is captured and tortured into giving up whoever gives him orders. They strip him and drip hot candle wax on his junk then shove the candle itself into his junk. (they waxed Santa's balls!) He manages to escape but he knows he needs a driver so he hijacks the car of the 2nd hottest Asian in the film. He tells her that he tires of his life and seeks out a life of peace and tranquility with the monks of the island. But that's soon shattered as men come looking to kill him for past transgressions.

Headshot jumps back and forth in narrative a bit too seamlessly. You have to really focus to tell when is when. Outside of that, it was a pretty good film.

Out of Ten? 7 

Violence? Yes
Explosions? No
Nudity? Yes

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