i watched
The Killer -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136617/reference/
and then, i watched The Killer AGAIN because i didn't understand what the fuck was happening with the story.
What i gather is that there's (Michael Fassbender) who is a contract killer, and the first job we see him do goes ridiculously bad. A french road is maybe 40 meters wide, how the fuck do you miss with a precision rifle, scope and tripod.
Anyway, Mr Killer misses his target but kills the hooker that was with him, and has to abort the mission. As he arrives to his hideout he finds that someone's broken into it. And maybe he's upset too.
I didn't have a clue that this was a hit by his employers, who were trying to ... uhh .. clean up the evidence of the contract. Again this is fairly idiotic because nobdoy knows he did the bothced hit .. but whatevs.
So Mr Killer finds his "handler" and tortures him to get the names of the two other killers sent after him, and after a whole lot of stalking finds them and kills them, in two separate scenes of extremely different moods.
Not only i did not understand this film, i absolutely did not enjoy watching it, neither once nor twice.
The whole film seems to be more about the mood rather than anything else. It certainly isn't about the action, like John Wick, for example, but rather about this guy .. waiting, and following, and hiding in plain sight, and renting cars, and buying spy tech off of amazon, and booking airline tickets, and in general making most of his "business" through paying for all these typical 'murican services, that i thought i was watching a film about the anomynity built into these; Mr Killer has tons of fake passports, shops casually for guns, tons of rental vehicles that don't check really who rents them, tons of Easy 1 Day Shipping via Amazon & whatnot. Seriously, was this meant to be an indictment of the american service society?
i didn't like it. would not recommend. The director is David Fincher, who isn't exactly an idiot, and yeah, there's tension, but the kind of tension that you get from a documentary. For a film, i expect a script with a little more 'oomph.
6/10 - it may have a message, but doesn't know how to present it in a way that won't make you fall asleep.
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