Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

King of the Hill

Play trailer Poster for King of the Hill R 2007 1h 28m Kids & Family Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
83% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 46% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
Quim's (Leonardo Sbaraglia) car is shot at as he is driving across a sparse stretch of land. When he stops to investigate the shooting, he is fired at again, but manages to escape to a wooded area, and there he finds Bea (María Valverde), a woman he had encountered in a gas station moments earlier. The two seem to be the targets of deadly assassins as they run helplessly through the forest -- but when the killers are revealed, it evokes an empathy Quim would never have expected.

Critics Reviews

View All (12)
Xan Brooks Guardian It's at its best in a tense middle section that plays as a pared-down existential nightmare. Rated: 3/5 Feb 13, 2009 Full Review Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) The tautness of the first hour is tremendous, and features something I never thought to see in such a movie: the spectacle of a man, hiding inside a car from his would-be killer, and doing something we would all probably do in real life: actually whimper. Rated: 3/5 Feb 13, 2009 Full Review Wendy Ide The Times (UK) From Spain comes a leaner, bleaker horror film. Rated: 3/5 Feb 12, 2009 Full Review Bill Chambers Film Freak Central A political thriller in the sense that it's bound to polarize audiences... Rated: 3.5/4 Jul 24, 2009 Full Review Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) The revelation of the shooter's identity, however, is a bit of a yawn, especially if you have seen the 2006 French film Them or last year's British horror movie Eden Lake. Rated: 2/5 Feb 19, 2009 Full Review Philip French Observer (UK) It starts off well enough as Deliverance and Duel but becomes very conventional when, two-thirds of the way through, the snipers are revealed and it turns into what might be called Haneke-panky. Feb 19, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (122)
Audience Member The movie was kind of boring and typical of a thriller this type, the characters were kind off different but the real positive thing was the portrayal of the antagonists that really made the movie a little more intriguing. But by the end it was too lost and you simply can't outdone the rest of the movie. ~March 15, 2015~ Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member didn't care for this one Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Bleak, boring and so slow I spent half the movie on fast forward. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A genuinely suspenseful thriller with convincing acting and superb directing, as well as spectacular cinematography which adds to the pulse-pounding terror; makes us think of a Coen Brother movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/11/23 Full Review Audience Member "The Most Dangerous Game" in the Spanish countryside. Much better than Apollo 18. "A work of hard-driving tension, this is satisfyingly terse, methodical and relentless." ? Tom Huddlestone, Time Out Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Dang. That was intense. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
King of the Hill

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

View All

Gonzalo López-Gallego

Director

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Quim

María Valverde

Bea

Thomas Riordan

Hermano Menor

Andrés Juste

Hermano Mayor

Francisco Olmo

Guardia Mayor

More Like This

View All
The Horseman 57% 58% The Horseman Watchlist Trauma 25% 25% Trauma Watchlist Right at Your Door 68% 54% Right at Your Door Watchlist The Contract 0% 26% The Contract Watchlist Fracture 73% 73% Fracture Watchlist TRAILER for Fracture Discover more movies and TV shows. View More
View All

King of the Hill

King of the Hill (2007) King of the Hill (2007) King of the Hill (2007) King of the Hill (2007) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis Quim's (Leonardo Sbaraglia) car is shot at as he is driving across a sparse stretch of land. When he stops to investigate the shooting, he is fired at again, but manages to escape to a wooded area, and there he finds Bea (María Valverde), a woman he had encountered in a gas station moments earlier. The two seem to be the targets of deadly assassins as they run helplessly through the forest -- but when the killers are revealed, it evokes an empathy Quim would never have expected.
Director
Gonzalo López-Gallego
Production Co
Telecinco Cinema, Decontrabando Producciones Audiovisuales S.L., Goodfellas S.L.
Rating
R (Brief Sexuality|Violence|Language)
Genre
Kids & Family, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
European Spanish
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 28, 2021
Runtime
1h 28m