Feature No. 12 for David Fincher, THE KILLER is a Netflix-bankrolled crime thriller starring Fassbender (his first film in 4 years) as the nameless assassin, an adaptation from French comic book series, which may suggest the influence of Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI (1967), as Fassben...
Sitting comfortably alongside A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled as all-time action icon films, Woo’s seminal 1989 classic The Killer, starring Chow Yun Fat and Danny Lee, is to my mind the greatest film he’s ever made – arguments could easily be thrown about for any of the three ...
“The Kill Team,” writer/director Daniel Krauss’ dramatization ofactual wartime atrocitiesby U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, is lean, sincere, impassioned filmmaking, yet it fails to leave as much of an impression as it clearly wants to. Part of the problem is that the movie, while focusing...
movieman6-413-929510 Review ofThe Killer The Killer(2024) 5/10 John Woo gives his old film a modern twist, but adds little new to it 25 August 2024 The Killer is a modern remake of John Woo, his own Asian film from 1989. He has returned as director of this more modern version. ...
Thus, those movies our grandparents would claim as “that great movie you need to see” were left to be discovered on Netflix and Max. But something strange is happening with Lionsgate this year and they felt a theatrical release was justified for The Killer’s Game. At first, I was ...
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The Good: Killer Sofa, I have to say, was a surprisingly good film! I was expecting to either chuckle my way through this one or sleep through it. And while I didn’t chuckle, I’ll admit it did entertain me! The story is spot on as it doesn’t waste too much time getting into...
Killer Elite 2011 *** 2022-03-31 Blade: Trinity 2004 ** 1/2 2022-03-31 To return to this page hit TheMovieGeek.com Logo at the top. In 1976 my father took me to see Star Wars at the Showcase Cinema in Orange, CT. I was hooked; from that day on I was a movie geek. ...
After Jackie Chan's hilarious and thrilling "Armour of God II," it's sad to report that the latest Hong Kong action thriller to come to the Tower Theater is a ridiculous over-the-top yarn about female assassins called "Naked Killer." Take the title literally. ...