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Nathalie Emmanuel

Omar Sy

Sam Worthington

Diana Silvers

Saïd Taghmaoui

Angeles Woo

Éric Cantona

Tchéky Karyo

Grégory Montel

Hugo Diego Garcia

Michaël Erpelding

Aurélia Agel

Guillaume Kerbusch

Fabrice Scott

Kelian Maréchaux

Elie Haddad

Lydie Muller

Etienne Guillou-Kervern

Vincent Winterhalter

Igor Skreblin

Octave Delepaule

Marius Delepaule

Kévin Table

David Clark

Jaz Deol

Anissa Bakhti

Grégory Loffredo

Jamel Blissat

Intissar Kitsaïs-Rotsen

Eesha El Hadj

Yann Brouet

Gary Cothenet

Maxime Coulon

Ahmed Chouikhi

Nicolas-Kisito Bata

Laurent Coin

Michaël Troude

Arthur Aspaturian

Clément Huet

Vincent Bersoullé

Michel Nguyen

Trevor Morgan

Quentin D'Hainaut

Hugo Bariller

Ben Milord

Iliés Moujane

Robert 'Rock' Galotti

Staiv Gentis

Justin Howell

Renaud Marc

Lauren Coda

Clémence Schreiber

Monia Moula

Morgane Bujoli

Navathipan Rajakumar

Christophe Dupuis

Rachid Boulaïd

Bryan Vigier

Jérémy Margallé

Alexandre Lopoka

Frédéric Dessains

Jonathan Bernard

Daren Nop

David Nop

Eric Cullet

Arthur Delapierre

Anis Messabis

Maurice Chan

Amadéo Cazzela

Marvin Berrembou

Thibault Gassmann

Olivier Sa

Ibrahima Keita

Lucas Dollfus

Alexandre Yde

John Woo

Alex Gartner

Charles Roven

Zach Staenberg

Quentin Verbruggen

Jade-Eleena Dregorius

Christine Tamalet

Sara Scott

Julien Dara

Nicolas Brisset

Pascal Delaunay

Mathilde Nicollet

François Vigon

Terence Chang

Leslie Gaborieau

Vincent Piponnier

Michael Pontvert

François Borgeaud

Jeremie Solomon

Vincent Rochette

Mathilde Perrussel

David Biet

Brett Smrz

Stéphane Bourgoin

Hugo Ctiborsky

Olivier Fornara

David Grolleau

Teddy Ponceau

Geoffrey Menardo

Eva Claverie

Bonnie Pirès

Roland Toupet

Julian Moeglin

Luc Etienne

Maud Ducre

Gregg Smrz

Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez

Steph Tataryn

Marja Maccotta

Vincent Bouillon

Oscar Casellas

Alice Naigeon

Alexandre Vu

Steve de Rocco

Rose Polvé

Samuel Payen

Alexandra Boisseau

Florine Silva

David Foquin

Jean Huynh

Eric Bornes

Kevin Kaiser

Lucile Perez

Nejib Boubaker

Caroline Wormser

Richard Epper

Astou Vedel

Adèle Le Goff

Rosa-Bélinda Sette

Lori Tilkin

Mathis Dujardin

Thomas Le Govic

Camille Relier

Marion Di Domizio

Aurélie Leupe

Sébastien Quérité

Gael Nicolas

Michaela Daroussi

Sophie Ohayon

Sean Massey

Robin Mulcahy Fisichella

Édouard Decker

Misiri Patricia Patou

Cynthia Scigliuto

Audrey Tavares

Hugo Marquetty

Marie-Jeanne Raoux

Brahim Aouchiche

Hugo Richard

Mathilde Oliviero

Arnaud Kaiser

Kevin Boubli

Sarah Daoud

Ludivine Jahan

Maxence Ravel

Shannon Bakeman

Jérôme Beche

Margherita Laserpe

Cristen Carr Strubbe

Kelly Marazzi

Sandrine Denis

Michèle Maurer

Paul Massey

Mélissa Humler

Josh Campbell

Brian Helgeland

This movie is laughably bad. Oh my goodness.

It's nice to see Nathalie Emmanuel outside of the Furiously Fast series and it's nice seeing Omar Sy and Sam Worthington again but this movie just steadily gets more campy and more cringe and more stupid as it progresses. The best scene is probably the club hit early on, and it gives you a false sense that the movie is going to be better than the poster - it isn't. In that respect, The Killer (2024) reminds me of Smile (2022). Folks went crazy for Smile. Smile went downhill after the opening scene and never recovered.

I watched Silent Night (2023). It wasn't horrible, but maybe John Woo should've stopped with that.

I don't care that the story isn't original, I care that the script is poorly written and the direction is lackluster. Zee is poorly written, Sey is poorly written, Jenn is poorly written, and Finn says "Kushala Daora" one-two many times. Jax is probably the best written character and he's on-screen for like 5 minutes total.

I got the impression early on that they were going for a Killing Eve (2018-2022) vibe, but yeah, no. It's just sad.

Can someone competent take this cast, this concept - this "Queen of the Dead" idea, and do it properly?

If you're looking for some female-led assassin action, check out  The Protégé (2021) which wasn't a masterpiece but it was more entertaining than this, Anna (2019), Salt (2010), Red Sparrow (2018), or Atomic Blonde (2017).

Yes, we all needed another "girl boss" flick to spark our inner woke, didn't we?

What's that you say, "hell no", well then, read on. The Killer starts off with a main character, an assassin no less, who comes across as being about as tough and intimidating, as a bowl of warm mashed potato. But hey, she has a punch bag in her bohemian bedsit. Not to mention a handler who looks like he can, in fact, handle himself. 

Indeed, the underlying strategy seems to be to use visually gritty characters and cues, to drown out the entirely non-threatening nature of the lead character. Its a bit like sitting a potted rose down with pots of cacti, in the hope people will inexplicably mistake one, for the other. 

As you might expect, the results another absurdly unconvincing, predominantly exposition driven, affair, that would, I feel have only worked if re-imagined as a satirical comedy.

That's not to say this is the fault of the actors. Its a decent cast, who have found themselves mis-cast, no doubt, I'm guessing, so the script can play gender politics. Suffice to say, the quality acting, is one of the limited upsides, of this flick.

In summary, no amount of suspension of disbelief, will make this work.I personally wonder why they persist, when everything I see, seems to suggest the viewing public have thoroughly rejected, the DEI agenda, in favour of  a return to traditional, sensible, entertainment.

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