Kill List (2012)Ben Wheatley's ultraviolent hitman horror movie Kill List starts off like a kitchen-sink Guy Ritchie film, with Gal (Michael Smiley) and Jay (Neil Maskell), a…2012-02-03PT95MHorrorMystery and ThrillerNeil MaskellMichael Smiley
Ben Wheatley's ultraviolent hitman horror movie Kill List starts off like a kitchen-sink Guy Ritchie film, with Gal (Michael Smiley) and Jay (Neil Maskell), a lowly pair of hired killers, extending a dinner party into a drunken wrangle. Then the two go out on an assigned homicide spree, with Smiley's Cockney psycho amping up each torture-murder so it's even grislier than the last. It's all very sub-Tarantino showy and empty at least, until the head-scratching climax, which tries to be Eyes Wide Shut, The Wicker Man, and The Twilight Zone all at once, but only makes you wish that you were watching one of them instead. (Also available on VOD)C
Originally posted Feb 15, 2012Published in issue #1195 Feb 24, 2012Order article reprints