The Killer (2023)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard
Synopsis:
A contract killer with a rigidly disciplined m.o. makes a mistake that unravels into his personal life, and embarks on an uncommercial mission of revenge involving every level of his business dealings.
Review:
Having spent some amount of energy examining what makes people kill for pleasure, Fincher now concerns himself with the 'affectless' practitioner. Aptly, all the characters have names like 'The Expert', 'The Brute', since they have subordinated normal human existence to being cogs in the machine of an international economy of liquidation - for financial gain, for security, or just to avoid embarrassment. Thus when a client is paid an overage to compensate for our protagonist's faux pas, the latter must pay the penalty. Little does it occur to anyone that he will go home, or mind particularly. Why he would care is never made clear to us either, since Fassbender plays the whole movie like the android from Prometheus. That said, this is business-class film-making of a high order of technical merit, shot through with the director's trademark yellows, browns and greys, and with a metaphoric side swipe, who knows, at today's throwaway culture.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard
Synopsis:
A contract killer with a rigidly disciplined m.o. makes a mistake that unravels into his personal life, and embarks on an uncommercial mission of revenge involving every level of his business dealings.
Review:
Having spent some amount of energy examining what makes people kill for pleasure, Fincher now concerns himself with the 'affectless' practitioner. Aptly, all the characters have names like 'The Expert', 'The Brute', since they have subordinated normal human existence to being cogs in the machine of an international economy of liquidation - for financial gain, for security, or just to avoid embarrassment. Thus when a client is paid an overage to compensate for our protagonist's faux pas, the latter must pay the penalty. Little does it occur to anyone that he will go home, or mind particularly. Why he would care is never made clear to us either, since Fassbender plays the whole movie like the android from Prometheus. That said, this is business-class film-making of a high order of technical merit, shot through with the director's trademark yellows, browns and greys, and with a metaphoric side swipe, who knows, at today's throwaway culture.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 118m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard
Synopsis:
A contract killer with a rigidly disciplined m.o. makes a mistake that unravels into his personal life, and embarks on an uncommercial mission of revenge involving every level of his business dealings.
Review:
Having spent some amount of energy examining what makes people kill for pleasure, Fincher now concerns himself with the 'affectless' practitioner. Aptly, all the characters have names like 'The Expert', 'The Brute', since they have subordinated normal human existence to being cogs in the machine of an international economy of liquidation - for financial gain, for security, or just to avoid embarrassment. Thus when a client is paid an overage to compensate for our protagonist's faux pas, the latter must pay the penalty. Little does it occur to anyone that he will go home, or mind particularly. Why he would care is never made clear to us either, since Fassbender plays the whole movie like the android from Prometheus. That said, this is business-class film-making of a high order of technical merit, shot through with the director's trademark yellows, browns and greys, and with a metaphoric side swipe, who knows, at today's throwaway culture.