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Information
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 118 min.
- Director
- David Fincher
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Mystery
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 1,951
- Favs
- 91
- Dislikes
- 20
- Favs/checks
- 4.7% (1:21)
- Favs/dislikes
- 5:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
I know it's a fairly generic title, but if you're going to make a movie called The Killer, it better be damn good to eclipse the similarly-titled John Woo film. David Fincher disappoints, however, with a movie that's just okay (and sort of supposed to be his take on Melville's Le Samuraï). Starts off well enough, with Michael Fassbender doing cool voice-over on top of his assassin's actions, making him seem badass as shit, so of course he has to suffer his first/worst failure, with very personal results. This takes him on a picaresque revenge path, and that structure is really what sinks it for me. After the Florida sequence, my attention started to drift. Even though Fincher gives us a different take on killing each time, he always seems to be making the same semi-ironic point about the personal vs. the professional, and after the cool Florida fight, everything else seems kind of anti-climactic (especially the "final boss"). Fincher is extremely good at putting various pieces together (as in his detective thrillers), but here, the story is just too slim for his particular talents to shine. It's just "one thing after another". 5 months 1 week ago -
