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Like James Bond but naughtier, this hitman lacks shock and awe

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September 04, 2023

DAVID FINCHER'S Fight Club debuted at Venice 1999. Since then, Fincher has graced us with some phenomenal films, many of them about killers, real or imagined.

- Jo-Ann Titmarsh

Like James Bond but naughtier, this hitman lacks shock and awe

The Killer

Venice Film Festival 

Returning to Venice in competition with The Killer, the director might not have shocked and awed us as he did with Fight Club, but this is an accomplished and entertaining thriller, nevertheless.

The title credits are a treat, for starters. Jagged images that disappear before you quite realise what you are seeing but these brief splintered scenes depict a catalogue of killings. Are they the promise of what's to come? Not really.

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यह कहानी Evening Standard के September 04, 2023 संस्करण से ली गई है।

हजारों चुनिंदा प्रीमियम कहानियों और 10,000 से अधिक पत्रिकाओं और समाचार पत्रों तक पहुंचने के लिए मैगज़्टर गोल्ड की सदस्यता लें।

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