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We’ve seen him help commander the Enterprise, fight alongside Ethan Hunt, and go on more than a few adventures with Edgar Wright and company, but soon we’ll see Simon Pegg take on the role of an assassin, in comedic form as one might expect. A post-Tarantino revenge thriller, director Kriv StendersKill Me Three Times follows the actor as Charlie Wolfe, a hired gun who gets tangled up in three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge.

We said in our review, “Kill Me Three Times may not possess anything unique to place it far above the next thriller that sneaks out from the stylistic shadows Tarantino paved, but that’s not its goal. Instead, it has fun with convention through effective pacing and character trajectories that often don’t stay where cliché and preconception guess. Everyone’s a badass—save Stapleton’s wormy gambler to a point—and none are above getting a bullet in the throat. Equal parts revenge actioner and con game, the comedy never ceases to subvert even the most gruesome death or serious dramatics. Because at the end of the day, that’s what Stenders has put onscreen. The escalating conflicts merely progress its subplots to deliver more laughs until you realize the whole thing is ultimately one big, infectious joke anyway.”

Also starring Teresa Palmer, Sullivan Stapleton, and Luke Hemsworth, check out the first red band trailer below.

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Kill Me Three Times hits VOD on March 26th and theaters on April 10th.

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