FILM
THE KILLER
I AM JACK’S COMPLETE ELATION AT A NEW DAVID FINCHER FILM
EDITED BY JOHN NUGENT
26 OCTOBER - 22 NOVEMBER 2023 |
FILMS, TV, BOOKS, GAMES - ALL THE BIG RELEASES, RATED
Michael Fassbender as ultra-focused hitman The Killer.
Man on a murderous mission;
Tilda Swinton as the enigmatic Expert;
Killing as craft.
KILLER QUOTE
“WWJWBD. What would John Wilkes Booth do?” THE KILLER (MICHAEL FASSBENDER)
★★★★
OUT 27 OCTOBER (CINEMAS), 10 NOVEMBER (NETFLIX) / CERT TBC / 119 MINS
DIRECTOR David Fincher
CAST Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Kerry O’Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte
PLOT A killer-for-hire (Fassbender) lives his life in the shadows. When a job goes wrong, he is forced to take revenge on his employers, one by one.
DAVID FINCHER IS back on familiar terrain. His last film, 2020’s Mank, felt like an unusual left-turn: a deeply personal period passion project, co-written with his late father, it was as sweepingly romantic as it was slyly cynical — but, with such a narrow focus and such niche preoccupations, it held less mainstream appeal than his usual fare. With The Killer (adapted from the French graphic novel Le Tueur, by writer Matz and artist Luc Jacamon), the director returns to the kind of material that cemented his status as one of Hollywood’s most singular, incisive, ingenious genre filmmakers: bringing his unique artistic rigour to familiar blockbuster components.