18th January, 2013.
You know, it’s not THAT often I say this, but I might — MIGHT, I stress — have to rearrange the way I rate movies.
You know, it’s not THAT often I say this, but I might — MIGHT, I stress — have to rearrange the way I rate movies.
Please notice I say MIGHT, I hasten to add,
Equally, I might not: I’m a lazy little so and so, sometimes.
The reason I mention that … ?
Is the film I’ve just watched, tonight.
It’s either punching WAY above the weight one expects its to.
Or it’s …
~≈®≈~
Directed by Ben Wheatley, and written by both him and Amy Jump, Kill List sees Neil Maskell as Jay: a former soldier who, since leaving the army, has become a contract killer.
What’s more, Jay’s become a contract killer who’s marriage — to ’Shel, played by MyAnna Buring — has hit the proverbial rocks. Until old friend and fellow hitman, Gal — Michael Smiley — let’s Jay know that he’s found them an easy little number.
Three killings: with a comfortably big pay-off.
It’s only when they meet the (never-named) client, who insists on slicing open his own — and Jay’s — palms, to seal the deal in blood, the pair realise the deal may well be slightly odder than their usual jobs …
~≈®≈~
Now, I said about possibly re-arranging my ratings?
Actually, I very much doubt I will: but I always tell my friends who say “Why not give
Film X a 5 star — or whatever — rating.”
I usually tell them: “If that’s what you want to give it, you’re welcome to: on your blog.”
However, I do — occasionally — come across films that are, like Kill List, seem to punch way above their weight.
And there’s only a few of them, I know that. Pontypool is one: along with We Need To Talk About Kevin, Attack The Block and The Awakening are three others.
In what I think of as the Four Star club.
In other words, Kill List is a film that I feel is very good quality. But whatever the quality, is one I feel you — you — should see for yourself.
I don’t think you’ll be disappointed with it …
Kill List
★★★★
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