‘Kill Me’ Review: Charlie Day Cracks a Case That Could Break Him in Disarming Black Comedy

There’s a shamelessly bad crime procedural that Jimmy (Charlie Day) has on in the background as he awakens in a hospital from a near-death experience in “Kill Me.” Its appearance is brief, but significant as he starts to make sense of what happened to him after waking up in a bathtub full of his own blood. Although much of the evidence suggests he did this to himself, writer-director Peter Warren craftily reimagines the whodunit, when the suspect Jimmy knows the least about is himself when battling severe depression. An investigation will give him a reason to live as he’s forced to consider why he’d want to die.

There’s a strong sense of irony throughout the darkly comic potboiler which sees Jimmy tell himself he isn’t responsible for the slash on his right wrist. But his sister Alice, (Aya Cash) who had to care for him…