Didn't like this much at all, it started off very well up to the end of a very good sniper scene... But then I just found it really dull (I guess the fist fight wasn't bad)...
But I was kind of done with this movie after 30.minutes, I just held on because I had paid for a cinema ticket to watch it
Rather disappointed.
5/10
I thought it was excellent, a 9/10.
shareI didn't think it was as original as many critics thought but I did think that it had just enough nuance to be interesting
If anyone's interested, I reviewed the movie on my youtube channel. Appreciate any feedback. Trying to improve - https://youtu.be/YvLnNJT4IT0
OP nailed it. Wanky faux-insightful nonsense.
shareWent over your head, not too surprising
shareI love Fincher. I love the story and the hunt. Dialogue was great. Co-stars fantastic. The alias names hysterical. Lots of Fassbender thinking and talking out loud, and some things he says are enlightening and comical. The journey from Paris to Dominican Rep to Nola to Florida to NY to Chicago. Loved it. And yet somehow it misses. Is it Fassbender. I love him generally. But when I think of great assassin movies, I think of Le Samurai as the best. Bronson’s Mechanic. Are they great because of Delon and Bronson. Still trying to figure why this wasn’t as good. I saw it at a theater which every movie deserves. And yet this movie is far superior to any of the movies that are recently being doled out to us.
I love these quotes in the movie;
“It’s amazing how physically exhausting it is to do nothing. If you are able to endure boredom, this work is not for you.”
“Of the many lies told by the US military-industrial complex, my favorite is still their claim that sleep deprivation didn’t qualify as torture.”
i dont think it was fassbender, i was actually thinking how much I liked the idea of him in roles like this.
i think the fault lies with Fincher who may well have filmed all of the great ideas he has had and just missed doing films but had no great inspirations left in him. so his craft is here but his passion died with like... Gone Girl? (or mind hunter, but ive only seen bits of it)
Fassbender is good. Benicio would have been better. Maybe it’s the role. There is a moment in the movie where Fassbender while chatting says something to the effect - in this day and age, because a person is unable to go without being seen, he must be unmemorable and that’s what’s happened. I wonder if that’s part of the problem because Tilda in her 10 minutes is very memorable and vibrant and the killer isn’t. But it’s not Fincher. And I wish Netflix would continue with Mindhunter. One of the best.
shareI suspect "dull" was the target.
Fassbender's character was not boiling under the cool surface, burning deep inside or anything else remotely spectacular. He was just a clerk through and through, a tiny insignificant agent of death, a barely registering cog in the grand scheme of things.
It was the least glorifying hired assassin movie I have ever seen, and I think its purpose was exactly this - to deconstruct this often romanticized profession.
Now, I can't say I LOVED the movie - intended or not intended, dull is still dull. But it was different from many other hired-assassin movies I have seen, and I think I'll refer to it when I bump into this theme again.
I enjoyed it. I think a lot of people are disappointed because they expected it to be full of car chases and explosions, like most "action" movies these days. I'm just glad directors like Fincher are still making films that allow the story to breathe.
shareI was expecting something worthy of a David Fincher & Andrew Kevin Walker collaboration. It fell massively short.
It looks great and is serviceably entertaining but it just didn’t amount to much, there were no surprises or revelations, it was disappointingly thin gruel from filmmakers who have made lasting classics.