Film Review – Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife

An actor perhaps best known for his supporting role on television’s “Felicity,” Scott Foley makes his feature-length directorial debut with “Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife,” a dark comedy that calls in a few favors from his friends and family. Reaching for a grim pitch of hilariously immoral behavior, Foley largely botches attempts at shock value and humor, saddled with his own unadventurous screenwriting that’s too reliant on sitcom-esque antics. Although the cast is game to play, often emerging as the only sign of life here, “Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife” is a one-joke effort that wears out its welcome as it struggles to dream up new misunderstandings to organize and macabre antics to choreograph. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com