The friends of Lela, the daughter of a police inspector, are killed off
one by one - one even while Lela is on webcam with her -, and it soon
becomes clear the killer must have an obsession with Lela. The cops, led
by Lela's father, soon home in on Shahab, Lela's ex, who has been behaving
a bit peculiar lately and who fails to come up with an alibi for any of the
murders. Eventually, Lela's father and his partner Conro want to take
Shahab in for questioning, but he pulls a gun at them and after being
disarmed manages to make a getaway. When going after him, Lela's dad
stumbles upon a construction site where he finds a secret room that seems
to be devoted to his own daughter ... Meanwhile Conro has caught up with
Shahab - but only to return his gun. Eventually, Conro runs across Lela
and promises to drive her to safety, but actually makes her his captive,
tieing her to a chair on top of the building under construction Lela's dad
has found the room devoted to his daughter at. Somehow, Lela has managed
to alarm Shahab beforehands, who races to her rescue, but this was all just a trick by
Conro to lure him into a trap, as he, mad as can be, sees Shahab as the
main rival for Lela's affections. Conro already prepares to kill Shahab when Lela's father, who has
come to his own conclusions in the
meantime, arrives at the scene, and he manages to shoot his own partner
Conro just in time ... Very average murder mystery from Iran,
that - apart from the headscarves the women are wearing - could have been
filmed everywhere else in the world just as well, as it looks and plays
just like every other genre movie. A few references to Italian gialli
(especially the murder scenes) are at least nice, but not enough to give
the film any kind of personal touch. That's not to say that Online Kill
is a bad movie, it's just so incredibly average it's almost annoying.
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