In the Netflix film, David Fincher directs Michael Fassbender as a vengeful assassin.
A practitioner of impeccably crafted cinema in which shot compositions and editing transitions evoke greater feelings than the fate of characters is right where he needs to be in his latest movie. David Fincher’s The Killer extracts the maximum atmospherics possible out of the tedium involved in murder.
The 119-minute thriller is out on Netflix. Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name, The Killer has the stylistic flourishes of French-language crime classics without the moral undertow of these films. If the Le Samourai-like sequences of the man known only as The Assassin are dipped in grey-green dourness, the ruminative voiceover has a Gallic flavour too.
