Movie Details
| Title: | The Killer | |
| Director: | David Fincheer | |
| Year: | 2023 | |
| Genre: | Revenge | |
| Times Seen: | 2 | |
| Last Seen: | 03.08.26 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 03.08.26 | Internet | impulse watch. I felt like watching a movie, opened netflix, this was 40 minutes shorter than Zero Dark Thirty. I liked this more this time around not having the weight of plot hanging over me. I still wish it was any story other than what it is, but knowing there's nothing deeper than the double-crossed hitman getting revenge frees me up to revel in the process which is this movie's great strength. What do they call it now? proficiency porn? Watching someone who's good at something do the thing they're good at? I eat that up and this movie has a ton of it. It's kind of all this movie is. The filmmaking is so good, everything about it other than the story... and who knows maybe the graphic novel follows this exact story so it is what it is. At least I didn't watch Zodiac again. |
| 11.10.23 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2023 New David Fincher!!! And it's not Mank! It's about a hitman! That's cool! Actually, the plot is 100% what seemingly every movie about a hitman is about, but this movie is more about execution than innovation. You're watching Michael Fassbender and in his head via the narration with a cold methodical precision that could just as easily have been about David Fincher if the movie was about making a movie rather than killing people professionally. So the pairing of directorial style and subject is just about perfect here, enough to make me forget about the familiar plot and go along for the ride. In that mode, I really enjoyed it. I like a movie where the hitman listens to The Smiths. I do with the plot was a little different, but I guess that came from the graphic novel source material. I also kind of wish for a version of the film without the voice-over as then it would be nearly dialogue-free. In that way it reminded me of the George Clooney movie The American, or at least the first half of it. The voice-over definitely adds color and I think the movie needs it, but it's also great that the film is so visual that we spend most of it watching Fassbender work in silence. I'd still trade it for a third season of Mindhunter in an instant, but oh well. I'm happy with this. I think there's time left for one more recent movie and I think we'll stick with the Netflix thriller genre and give this Benicio Del Toro movie a try. |
