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The Killer

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6.6/10 • 269

2024-08-222h 6m

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Some alliances form. Others will crumble.

Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.

Directors
John Woo
Editors
Zach Staenberg

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  1. Nathalie Emmanuel

    Nathalie Emmanuel

    Zee

  2. Omar Sy

    Omar Sy

    Sey

  3. Sam Worthington

    Sam Worthington

    Finn

  4. Diana Silvers

    Diana Silvers

    Jenn

  5. Saïd Taghmaoui

    Saïd Taghmaoui

    Prince Majeb Bin Faheem

  6. Angeles Woo

    Angeles Woo

    Chi Mai

  7. Éric Cantona

    Éric Cantona

    Gobert

  8. Tchéky Karyo

    Tchéky Karyo

    Tessier

  9. Grégory Montel

    Grégory Montel

    Jax

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Sejian

Aug 23, 2024

4/10

This movie is laughably bad. Oh my goodness. It's nice to see Nathalie Emmanuel outside of the Furiously Fast series and it's nice seeing Omar Sy and Sam Worthington again but this movie just steadily gets more campy and more cringe and more stupid as it progresses. The best scene is probably the club hit early on, and it gives you a false sense that the movie is going to be better than the poster - it isn't. In that respect, The Killer (2024) reminds me of Smile (2022). Folks went crazy for Smile. Smile went downhill after the opening scene and never recovered. I watched Silent Night (2023). It wasn't horrible, but maybe John Woo should've stopped with that. I don't care that the story isn't original, I care that the script is poorly written and the direction is lackluster. Zee is poorly written, Sey is poorly written, Jenn is poorly written, and Finn says "Kushala Daora" one-two many times. Jax is probably the best written character and he's on-screen for like 5 minutes total. I got the impression early on that they were going for a Killing Eve (2018-2022) vibe, but yeah, no. It's just sad. Can someone competent take this cast, this concept - this "Queen of the Dead" idea, and do it properly? If you're looking for some female-led assassin action, check out The Protégé (2021) which wasn't a masterpiece but it was more entertaining than this, Anna (2019), Salt (2010), Red Sparrow (2018), or Atomic Blonde (2017).

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$30,000,000.00
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