''uwantme2killhim?'' (also known as ''U Want Me 2 Kill Him?'' and stylised as ''Uwantme2killhim?'') is a 2013 British

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film directed by Andrew Douglas. The film stars Jamie Blackley and

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and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where the two actors won the ''Best Performance in a British Feature Film'' award. The film is loosely based on a true story and follows two teenage

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s who are drawn into a complicated world of online chatrooms, eventually leading to bizarre consequences.

Plot

In 2003, Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton (

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) tries to establish why British schoolboy Mark ( Jamie Blackley) would want to stab John (

). The two were supposed to be friends, yet Mark claims that the crime was necessary. As she looks deeper into the crime and the two teenagers, she discovers that Mark frequented chatrooms and became fascinated with Rachel ( Jaime Winstone), a woman he met in one such room. With her prompting, he agrees to make friends with her brother John. Mark quickly begins to fall for her, sympathising with her tales of domestic abuse by her boyfriend Kevin (Mingus Johnston) while believing that they cannot meet because she is in a witness protection program. Mark is horrified when John informs him that Kevin has killed Rachel, and he begins planning revenge against Kevin. Mark's sanity has been slowly coming apart, culminating in his beginning his plans to stab John after a chat with Janet ( Liz White), an MI5 agent, who tells him that John is a

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to the agency. It is eventually revealed that John

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the entire plot and that there is no Rachel or Janet, and that he pretended to be various people in order to get to Mark.

Cast

* Jamie Blackley as Mark *

as John *

as DI Sarah Clayton * Liz White as Janet * Jaime Winstone as Rachel * Mark Womack as Mark's Dad * Amy Wren as Zoey *

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as Mark's Mum * James Burrows as Ryan Robins *

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as Kelly * Mingus Johnston as Kevin

Reception

Critical reception for ''uwantme2killhim?'' was mixed to positive. Common praise in the reviews typically centre upon Blackley and Regbo's acting, with the ''

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'' commenting that the two delivered "strong performances". Other reviews questioned the film's need to repeat plot elements and the believability of some of the scenes.

Awards

*2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival, ''Best performance in a British feature film Award''

References

External links

Official website (Archive copy)
* {{IMDb title, 0485061 2013 thriller films British thriller films British films based on actual events Films about witness protection Films set in 2003 Films set in the United Kingdom Films produced by Steve Golin Films produced by Bryan Singer Films shot at Elstree Film Studios 2010s English-language films 2010s British films