Film Review – The Killer (2023)

Director David Fincher works slowly these days, and he attempted to bring a passion project to the screen with his last film, 2020’s “Mank,” looking to replicate Hollywood history and deliver something personal, ending up with an immersive but distant feature. Chasing that coldness, Fincher doubles down on iciness for “The Killer,” which is an adaptation of a French graphic novel series, and he reunites with his “Seven” screenwriter, Andrew Kevin Walker, for this merciless study of revenge featuring a lead character who lives exclusively inside his own head. Fincher fingerprints are everywhere with the impeccably shot and assembled effort, but the straightforwardness of the story and its razor-sharp execution is absolutely fantastic, keeping the helmer focused on a suffocating, acerbic plunge into noir-ish action and reaction, offering actor Michael Fassbender one of his best roles in one of Fincher’s best pictures. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com