with the introductory title at the beginning of the movie and one can sense that this film be in big trouble . after all and how much emphasis should a palm tree receive shot and reshot via redundant closeup and pull back . the first set of scene seem to set the tenor of the movie and be a grand hint that what follow have the potential of be awful . cheesy set and lousy dialogue and poor edit all worthy of a ninth grade film buff student in his first big homework assignment . the framing of the shot almost seem to be out of how to make a movie 101 and with the subsequent movie have a very cook book feeling or how to make a movie by the number . somewhere about the 30 minute mark and it become exceedingly difficult to suppress the thought that the producer and director and and writer and john landis and should not be take outside and shot . it be amazing how he can take a more than capable cast and have most of them look like low iq dimwit . the movie only save grace be that it be highly uneven and mean that there be something there to almost balance out it dreadfulness and but not quite . that factor be dan aykroyd whose reputation a a comedian proceeds him and without that awareness and the movie would be a complete failure . a the character and bob and akyroyd do his version of tom hank in road to perdition a deadly serious killer whose lack of on screen humor make him very funny . the basic plot of the movie be contain within it title and die to get rich . susan plan and and revolve around susan and play by nastassja kinski and scheme to get rid of her ex husband to collect his insurance money . characterize the film a a black comedy can not mask it gross deficiency . it be painful to watch an actress of nastassja caliber have to mouth some of the line that be liberally intersperse with a four letter word and start with f and end in k. this must be a guinness world record for nastassja utter the f word in any of her movie . it be my fervent hope that nastassja will never have to attend a film festival of her work and have to provide commentary on a frame to frame basis for this movie . because this movie be like a sit duck and it be too easy to blast it out of the water . one scene have the major participant openly discuss the murder in a crowded and public restaurant . the awkwardness and stiffness of some of the scene should constitute a nice lesson on how not to make a movie . this be one movie that not even nastassja can escape unscathed a she lead her merry band of idiot down a path of ruin .