winter kill be a terrible and incoherent and very disappointing conspiracy comedy thriller from little known director william richert . while watch the film and i honestly felt a if i be the emperor in the classic fable the emperor new clothes . the film make me feel like a fool because i couldn not make head nor tail of the serpentine plot and the nonsensical character . but i felt kind of embarrassed to admit to myself that the film be tie my brain up in knot . so i stick with it to the end and hoping that the whole tangle mess would untangle itself . then i realise . the film be suppose to be serpentine and nonsensical and illogical and because that the whole point . this be a satirical look at conspiracy theory and theorist and with the knot up of the plot use a a metaphor for the knot up of truth and half truth and lie that define any conspiracy . even when i get that the joke be on me and i still felt winter kill to be a pretty awful movie . young nick kegan ( jeff bridge ) be the young brother of a former united state president who be assassinate in philadelphia . nick be present when a die man claim that he shoot the president and give detailed information about where he hide the gun . nick follow the clue and but every step of the way the people help him seem to die in mysterious circumstance . also and his father pa kegan ( john huston ) and a vulgar and disgustingly wealthy businessman and keep interfere with nick investigation . the deeper he delve into the assassination and the more nick realises that he be descend into a web of complex lie and red herring and where nothing be a it seem and no one can be trust . the film be an utter nightmare to follow and and in many way be not worth try to follow for the afore mention reason that it deliberately tangle itself up . the cast be pack with extraordinary talent but most of them be waste . toshiro mifune have one of the brief and most pointless cameo role in cinematic history while elizabeth taylor appear uncredited and have not a single line of dialogue while richard boone be give what seem to be an interesting role but his character go nowhere . john huston have the best role a the powerful patriarch and provide u with the film few enjoyable moment with his acerbic delivery . anthony perkins also get a creepy role and handle it well and though his screen time be far too short to do complete justice to the character . some nudity and sex scene be toss in for no real reason and and while theyre quite graphic and might appeal to voyeur and they really belong in another film . the film semi comic climax be farcical and disappointing and yet paradoxically memorable in it weird little way . there obviously a cult audience out there somewhere for winter kill . but i would not be count myself among it number .