The Killer (2024)

The Killer (2024)

3/10

 

Starring          

Nathalie Emmanuel

Omar Sy

Sam Worthington

Diana Silvers

 

Directed by John Woo

 

Growing up in the 90s, there is no way you will not have heard about John Woo’s 1989 movie, The Killer. This movie starred Chow Yun-fat in a role that was memorable in our brains then. The movie was not without its pacing problems, but it was good. Now more than thirty years after, Woo releases a remake of this movie and this remake is one of the weirdest movies to see. Here is a John Woo movie, which has shooting, and action, and it is still very boring. There is nothing good to say about this movie, the cinematography was horrible, it has funny camera tilts at odd times, and the no needed zoom ins, I was screaming. Then I noticed some areas where I can tell, some bad editing was obvious. The pacing is all over the place, making it hard to keep you excited.

The actors all felt like children wearing daddy’s shoes. It seemed the roles were too big for them and none of them fitted well into their role, and then there was the plot.

When a hired killer known for being brutal takes pity on someone for a reason which is not shared in a way to make sense, you start to wonder who wrote this script?

It played out like John Woo, typed on ChatGPT, write me a script like my other movie The Killer, it was a lazy plot put together, and to think John Woo directed this.

The pacing was all over the place, and the characters had motives that seem to make sense to them and the child-like thoughts they have in their head.

Our leads are Zee (Nathalie Emmanuel) and Sey (Omar Sy), Zee is the hired killer who works for a man named Finn who in turn works for a Drug lord. Zee is hired by Finn to take out anyone who the Drug lord wants. So, on her recent case to take out everyone in a room, she spared a young lady who, is not innocent, but somehow Zee took pity on her.

Now Finn wants her to kill this lady to finish the job. We also discover that Finn has been having dealings of his own, which makes him also someone who wants to clean up loose ends, which Zee happens to be. I guess that predictability in the plot was just something that Woo could not help but include.

If you could see this movie, please save yourself the stress and don’t.