IMDb plot summary: After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Directed by David Fincher. Starring Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, and Charles Parnell.
The Killer is David Fincher's newest film, starring Michael Fassbender as a hired assassin who botches a job and is hunted down for it. But when his lover is nearly killed in an attempt to get to him, he then turns around to hunt down the people trying to find him. Fassbender to me is a complete nonentity -- I can't remember his face, I can't remember his voice, I don't recognize him when he shows up in movies. He is the perfect actor to be playing an anonymous assassin trying to always be forgettable. But unfortunately the whole movie is kind of like that for me. I've always enjoyed Fincher's visual style and ability to make even dark grungy films like Fight Club and Se7en eem visually arresting, but here it is flattened out in a sea of beige and brown, with nothing to really catch my eye. The story itself seems very in line with the tropes of the genre, never moving beyond them in any notable way. Really a disappointment from a talented director.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Killer < Captain Phillips
The Killer < Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Killer > Mission to Mars
The Killer > The World Is Not Enough
The Killer < The Number 23
The Killer > The Expendables
The Killer < Mother (2009)
The Killer < Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Killer > Little Manhattan
The Killer > Copying Beethoven
The Killer > Morocco
The Killer > Hand Rolled Cigarette
Final spot: #3080 out of 3883, or 21%.
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