Essential Killing

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Audience Member Only 83 minutes!...It seemed like 83 hours. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Jerzy Skolimowski's survival tale benefits from a steady, muted performance by VIncent Gallo. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The story of survival of a man from, what we presume, Afghanistan lost in the middle of the taïga of Siberia. Not a killer by choice, a killer for survival, for the essential. Vincent Gallo is truly a good actor, it is too bad we don't see him enough. Not a must see but a good film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member As purely a visceral thriller it goes well at first but tapers off a bit ineffectually, and the lack of context switches from being a strength, to joining the budget as a limitation. Instead of building some sort of narrative, you flounder around making wilder and ever weaker guesses, until you give up and wait powerless for the inevitable. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautiful scenery and I liked the sound effects/texture especially all the small sounds like snow crunching. Made me think about the war on terror from another perspective for a minute. I liked how we got to see everything from this characters POV and came to empathize for him a bit (though I was never routing for him). Makes you wonder about how you might deal with that. I don't know how I would have made out after the messing up my foot. Loved the lack of dialogue Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A good film that gives you the first part excitements and ends with scenes of silence while the protagonist struggles. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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