Review of Killing Season (2013) by John M — 24 Oct 2013

What do you mean, you're not interested in hearing the director of Ghost Rider comment on the Bosnian War? So an American (Robert De Niro) and a Serbian (John Travolta (no, seriously)) who are both veterans of the Bosnian War cross paths in the Appalachian Mountains, and they shortly thereafter try to kill one another.

Now I know that De Niro and Travolta have made some classic movies in the past, but nowadays, they really aren't above doing direct-to-video movies; I do give them credit for constantly working, but let's face it, they don't choose the best of scripts anymore.

Hearing Travolta do this over-the-top accent is bombastic and draws unnecessary attention to itself; if they wanted a convincing Serbian, they should have gone a different direction. The thing about Killing Season is that it actually does have something to say about how war affects the individuals that participate in it, but it is so ham handed and muddled, it just comes off as incompetent.

It actually attempts to do something that No Man's Land does in changing who is in charge of the situation on a dime, but it is so inept, it's pointless... Hell, No Man's Land is even covering the very same war, you should just go watch that movie instead, because it is actually intelligently crafted, unlike this piece of pedestrian action/torture fluff.