Review of Kill List (2011) by Christophe C — 03 Sep 2011

Every now and then, a film comes out that gets rave reviews from critics, and turns out to be absolute garbage. We've already had the abysmal Hanna this year, but this makes that look like a coherent masterpiece.

At times, shockingly brutal and uncomfortable to watch, but mostly this film is a tedious case of "yawn, this had better be leading somewhere good". And it most certainly does not. The poor Wicker Man-esque ending is so misjudged it just undermines everything that's gone before (and I love The Wicker Man).

There's a pretty horrific final reveal, and I don't have a problem with that per se, it's the way it was so poorly executed. The supposed planted clues don't actually make sense even when you know the ending. As Eddie Izzard once said, it's easy to write an unexpected twist- e.g. a man comes home and a pig eats him. This is one of those.

Truly dreadful.