Aneurin Barnard

Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back - 4/5

This movie has a dark comedy undertone, by virtue of its main character unsuccessfully trying to commit suicide several times and resorting to attempting to outsource the job to an assassin. Despite that, though, it's quite charming and its dry, British humour left a smile on my face for most of the runtime. By juxtaposing a day-to-day routine with assassins and suicide it brings out the hilarity in the mundane, and has a much more positive outlook than I would have expected. There are a few plot contrivances used for comedy and don’t make too much of a difference to where everything ends up, and though it may lose a few viewers the dry, British humour wins out in the end.

Content warning: language

Closest comparison: It’s like The Bourne Identity by way of Keeping Up Appearances with a pinch of Fawlty Towers.

Setting: Thriller
Plot: Dark Comedy
Tone: Dry Comedy