A Taste for Killing

1992 "They thought they made a friend for life. They were wrong"

A Taste for Killing

5.4 | 1h27m | en | Drama

Two college students get a summer job on an offshore oil rig. They are soon approached by a co-worker who had earlier befriended them, and who now tries to draw them into a plot to murder the rig's crew chief.

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5.4 | 1h27m | en | Drama , Action , Thriller | More Info

Released: August. 12,1992 | Released Producted By: Bodega Bay Productions , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Michael Biehn , Jason Bateman , Henry Thomas

Director

Amanda Anderson

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Reviews

tsietisin I managed to catch this film when it was on TV late at night on a channel no one watches at a time when people should be sleeping. Now this was several years ago so it shows that a film has something for it to be remembered several years on. Two youths employed on an oil rig make friends with one of the other workers. On a visit on shore to a local bar, they have a run in with another worker who gets killed. This leads Michael Biehn's character to blackmail the two youths. This is where the film gets good. There is a lot of tension between the youths as they try to keep everything a secret and their enemy who is invading every part of their lives. This part of the movie is great and is one of the few films that has left me wanting to know what is going to happen next. Its sadly other parts that don't work. There's a sex scene thrown in for no real good reason but the main problem I had with the movie was the ending.The director seems to have gone away from the tense psychological drama that was going on and decided that an action movie was what should be really going. So much so that the ending feels rushed and incomplete.Its still a reasonable movie and worth a watch if its on TV and there's nothing else to watch. I give it 6/10.

parky-3 You know how it is when you start somewhere new: you very quickly make a "friend", who you soon regret meeting and spend the rest of your time trying to avoid. That's an embarrassing social situation, but it's a lot easier than the stuff that happens to the two students in this film, struggling to fit into the macho world of the oil rig. They make a mysterious ally in enigmatic co-worker Michael Biehn. Then he reveals his true colours, and they aren't too pretty.