Reżyseria:
Ben WheatleyZdjęcia:
Laurie RoseMuzyka:
Jim WilliamsObsada:
Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer, Struan Rodger, Ben Crompton, Robin Hill, Gareth Tunley, Mark Kempner, Robert Hill, Sara Dee (więcej)Opisy(1)
Written and directed by Ben Wheatley, this British thriller stars Neil Maskell as Jay, a contracted killer who is pressured by his partner into taking a new assignment involving three killings for a massive payday. Whilst going ahead with what seems like a sequence of simple jobs, Jay's fear and paranoia are unravelled as his domestic issues of being a father come into play, sending him into a dark place physically and mentally breaking him down. With his mind in tatters, Jay starts to become extremely unprofessional and inflicts types of retribution on people he says 'deserve to suffer'. (StudioCanal UK)
(więcej)Recenzje (4)
Let’s take all the poetics and hypnotic qualities out of Drive. All that’s left is graphic violence and darkness. Now multiply these two things by five and you’ll get Kill List, a British film with stark visuals. The growing concern about occult fanaticism that unfolds in front of our tough-guy duo works in the film, but I do not consider its climax to be very surprising or impressive. Perhaps because I’ve seen something VERY similar, but much more appalling and perverted somewhere else – in A Serbian Film – not to mention a more powerful, goose-bumps-inducing ecstasy brought on by the escape through an underground tunnel in Them.
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I liked Kill List in the details, but the overall impression is mixed… For instance, the initial dinner (fantastically oppressive), the second murder (after Drive, the second film this year where a hammer is really cool), the chase in the tunnels (the only really scary scene) and the music (or rather the various unpleasant noises and sounds), all that is great. The individual bits are really nice, but I couldn’t put anything together with the package as a whole. And the ending was very disappointing, it blends two ways how to ruin a climax: lack of surprise and not answering some questions the answer to which I would like to know. The film made me happy several times with how it’s made and its perfect atmosphere… but in the end it didn’t tell me anything. 3*+
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Excellent. Cival's parallel with Eyes Wide Shut doesn’t falter much (an internally incomplete character attracted to the obscure community), and I would also add Wickerman (pagan cult), and praise the film for its almost "veristic" approach to leading actors and working with mise-en-scène and editing. It's sick, it's derailed, it's raw, it's absorbing... dirty dumplings, somewhere between absentee sex, ubiquitous death, and fleeting love.
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Good intentions and several thrilling scenes wrapped into a messy narration that fails to draw in the viewer and in the end leaves them with more questions than they would like. I appreciate the unorthodox approach vis-a-vis the characters, the work with the music and the unexpected bursts of violence, but the story doesn’t make any sense. Even A Serbian Film, which was more gratuitous and morally reprehensible, left me with a better impression.
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