David Fincher has a habit of naming his movies very meaningfully. Fight club it was about right, a club where you could fight (at least on the surface), Gone Girl focuses on the disappearance of a girl (woman). No surprise about his latest film, The murderer, it’s about.
Fresh out of theaters, the Michael Fassbender-helmed thriller hits Netflix on November 10th, and with an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it looks like we’re in for a treat. To have such a short time between release and streaming release, Fincher has clearly forgiven Netflix for the cancellation Mindhunter (even if we don’t have).
The murderer follows Fassbender’s (unnamed) zen-hitman, an ultra-professional who meticulously devotes himself to the art of murder. If you were a professional assassin, you’d probably try to power yourself up before each job, but that’s not the case here. Before a job, we see Killer listening to The Smiths and doing yoga. We all have a work routine, it’s just that his involves a sniper rifle. When a job goes wrong, however, things have to be a little less pre-planned as the Slayer fights for his life.
What follows is a unique take on a genre that has been covered to death (pun intended) that has critics’ tongues wagging. Peter Bradshaw’s The guardian gave it five stars and described it as a “horribly addictive procedural samurai”. It’s so ridiculous and if you think you love the movie and want more of The Killer, you can check out the French graphic novel it’s based on.
I love an original action movie. There’s a lot of general rust around, so when something like this comes up, it immediately catches my attention. Netflix also has the best action movie I’ve seen in years to watch, in case you need something to tide you over until November 10th. And of course, there’s always the similarly named Killers of the Flower Moon series on Apple TV+ or Netflix’s number 1 series.
