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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  KILLERS - The recent Mo Brothers film. It's a tale of two serial killers, one being superficially the classic reptilian psychopath we've come to know from countless B-movies over the years, the other being more of a vigilante type who kills out of a sense of frustrated self righteousness rather than for sadistic kicks. We see them develop a relationship over the internet, and they end up tangling with each other during the film's finale. I thought 'Killers' was a good movie, and I'd say it's definitely worth a watch - it's well made, cinematographically suave, and contrasts a nice line in emotional exploration (even the really bad dude is shown to harbour an enticing fragility) with requisite brutality. It's long, but absorbing, and I was impressed by the way it makes characters which would usually bypass any real audience sympathy seem human and complex and on some level worthy of empathy, which isn't an easy thing to do at all - you get into their world, which is for the most part lonely and empty rather than excitingly depraved. Good. |
I really enjoyed 'Killers' suitably nasty in places, the opening ten minutes is genuinely disturbing. I thought it pushed the levels of plausibility in the final third but was thrilling from start to finish.
It was a blind buy for me but money well spent.