Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, this dark thriller about an assassin (Michael Fassbender) out for revenge doesn’t quite hit its target
“Popeye the Sailor probably said it best: I am what I am,” he offers.
At the risk of getting all Robert McKee on you, the voiceover gets grating fast, and is not as clever or amusing as Fincher and his screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker thinks it is. A little less conversation, a little more action, please. While Fassbender doesn’t quite capture the mischievous sense of humor Fincher and Walker sought to instill in him, he does nail The Killer’s cold-hearted austerity, which is near-vampiric. You never doubt for a second that this man has logged his 10,000 hours of contract-killings, and that being in his crosshairs is the last place you ever want to be.
But you do start to question his methods.
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