In an exciting and comedy atmosphere, this movie, revolves around the daily activity and struggles of Charlie, a young handsome and smart poet, who struggles against breaking up with his girlfriend and meets a beautiful girl, Harriet, who seems to be attractive and nice, but his life turns upside down, when he knows that she is a serial killer.
Myers pumps out a river of inventive shtick, but it doesn't cohere or connect; he seems less a character than a comedian doing couch time on a late-night talk show.
Juggling mirth, romance and murder requires a deft touch -- think of Hitchcock's Trouble With Harry. Axe is a blunt instrument.
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
January 01, 2000
It doesn't help matters much that director Thomas Schlamme pays homage to great marital murder mysteries of the past, mostly because the attempts to borrow from the classics are so halfhearted.
Everyone quotes the Scottish-accented misanthropy. But at its heart, "Axe" is a sweet, funny romance between people trapped in patterns and freed by a positive paradigm shift. It's also the reason we never see Mike Myers' true face in films anymore.
