Venice 2023: David Fincher's Precision Assassin Thriller 'The Killer'

This is the story of an assassin. This is the story of what happens when an assassin makes a mistake on his mission. This is an assassin story we've seen 100 times before. This is a film about an assassin who is very good at what he does and sticks to his plan and doesn't make mistakes. Until he does. And this is about what happens next. We all know this story. Sometimes I wonder if every assassin or hitman film is the same. They all repeat the same tropes, same story beats, rarely ever adding anything new or changing things up. There's only so much one can really say with an assassin story anyway (note: this is debatable, but that's for another day). David Fincher's latest feature film The Killer is once again the same assassin story we've seen in so many other films, including Melville's iconic classic Le Samouraï. It even reminded me of Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 2, with Beatrix finally making her way up to the very top of it all, to meet Bill himself, and confront him and save herself. Even if this is a story we've seen many times before, it's still a damn fine assassin film. // Continue Reading ›

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