The Killer

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The Killer

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2024

2h 6m

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Legendary action director John Woo, the visionary filmmaker of Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II, Paycheck, Broken Arrow and Hard Boiled returns with a radical reimagining of his 1989 Hong Kong classic, The Killer. From the Oscar® winning producer of Oppenheimer, the kinetic action thriller stars Emmy nominee Nathalie Emmanuel (The Fast Saga, Game of Thrones) as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar's Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers; Ma, Booksmart) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee's alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Golden Globe nominee Omar Sy; Jurassic World franchise, Lupin), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.

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Critics Consensus

John Woo recaptures some of his legendary action bravura in this gallic reimagining of his very own The Killer, although the kinetic set pieces don't quite compensate for the overall lack of personality.

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Jacob Oller

AV Club

Much like a schlock villain’s final stand, Woo’s loose remake of The Killer puts up more of a fight than you’d expect before inevitably falling to truisms. Just as crime doesn’t pay, you can’t shoot the same bullet twice.

Rated: C-

Oct 25, 2024

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

[Nathalie Emmanuel] has some chops. She has some chops and handles the weapons well.

Sep 16, 2024

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Part of the problem here is that Emmanuel just isn’t an interesting enough performer to sell the strong, silent cipher that Zee needs to be.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 27, 2024

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Andy Klein

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

It's good that it's not just a remake, but it loses a lot of the emotional weight of the original.

Sep 16, 2024

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Robert W. Butler

Butler's Cinema Scene

John Woo’s “The Killer” feels uncomfortably like a parody of a John Woo movie. All the trademarks of the Woo style are there, but they feel forced and phony. Even kinda silly.

Rated: C

Sep 14, 2024

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Dominic Griffin

The Baltimore Beat

Whether or not it’s as good as the original is beside the point; it’s worth the price of admission alone to watch one of global cinema’s most significant living masters work within the strange new streaming normal and still pull out something of value.

Sep 11, 2024

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Matt W

I saw it for the first time yesterday! It kept me and my fiancé on the edge of our seets, it was well written kept us interested to keep watching because it was already late! I want to watch it again! For a thriller action movie I liked it!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/07/24

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Bruce t

John Woo made good choice of actors, Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee carries off a slightly unbelievably talented assassin, yet i detect a slight tongue-in-cheek, over-the-topness to her character, but lovable, even when i wondered why she was doing what she was. I stayed withholding negative judgement while my wife left it and retired to bed. There was a trickle of clues leading me to believe in where the Killer was going, which by the end was uplifting despite hugely high 'death rate' precipitated, and somehow 'just deserts ' was rained upon those deserving. And as boy and girl, didn't get it together, left a door ajar for a followup movie that i would love to see. Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee was gorgeously engrossing character, maintaining twists and plot turns and delightful gymnastic sequences. While an amount of her character was artfully revealed , over time, there is plenty more questions another film could address, with lots of room for Omar Sy as Sey, to be a part of.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/19/24

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Ariel Eduardo G

Leí por ahí que esta película le falta personalidad. Supongo que estará escrita por un pibe de 20 años que nunca habra visto una película de John Woo, porque esta es 100% una película de John Woo, estilo que empezó a formar al principio de los años 80 y que fue copiado una infinidad de veces por cuánta película de acción se vio en los últimos 30 años. Esta película es lo que uno podría esperar de una película de una película de Woo, tiene acción, explosiones, palomas (muchas) y mucho tiroteo, por sobre todas las cosas, el estilo hermoso de firmar cámaras lentas como nadie sabe hacerlo. si no encontrás la belleza en esta película, es porque ya perdiste al cinéfilo que debería llevar adentro y te quedaste solamente con aquel crítico que tiende a destruir todo lo que los demás crean. La película es 100% disfrutable y si alguna vez te gustó una película de Woo está también te va a gustar.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/17/24

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Omar R

Action packed, stunning, crazy bullet time moments, and of course one thing left that did justice, and that's the performance of Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/15/24

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Gustavo R

Nathalie Emanuel stars in this John Woo movie. Action packed. Plays Zee a hooker turned hit woman but she’s in trouble when she refuses to kill an inocentes blind woman. Good action like all Woo movies 🍿🍿🍿/5 on Peacock

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/12/24

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Simon M

Around 43:40-50 i was very disappointed about the edit, before she turn right the front has another street but then when to turned there was only blocks.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/27/24

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Synopsis

Legendary action director John Woo, the visionary filmmaker of Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II, Paycheck, Broken Arrow and Hard Boiled returns with a radical reimagining of his 1989 Hong Kong classic, The Killer. From the Oscar® winning producer of Oppenheimer, the kinetic action thriller stars Emmy nominee Nathalie Emmanuel (The Fast Saga, Game of Thrones) as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar's Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers; Ma, Booksmart) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee's alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Golden Globe nominee Omar Sy; Jurassic World franchise, Lupin), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.

Director: John Woo
Producer: Charles Roven, Alex Gartner, John Woo, Lori Tilkin
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken
Distributor: Peacock
Production Co: A Better Tomorrow Films, Atlas Entertainment, Entertainment One, Taewon Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 23, 2024
Runtime: 2h 6m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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