Everyone wants to be the one to discover the next low-budget and/or indie supernatural shocker, the stylish, wicked little thing that scares the bejesus out of you and sends you running to your friends, saying, ?You?ve gotta see this!? UK filmmaker Ben Wheatley?s Kill List isn?t that wicked little thing -- not by a long shot. Yet it?s a frustrating case. Wheatley drops enough unnerving bread crumbs in the first two-thirds to leave you wondering where the hell he?s headed, and even the big finale should be satisfying enough: It just belongs to a different movie, and it?s unsettling in a way that doesn?t feel earned.
That Kill List begins, seemingly, as a standard domestic drama is just one of Wheatley?s intentional red herrings. (He co-wrote the script with Amy Jump.) In the movie?s opening scene Jay (Neil Maskell) is bickering with his wife, Shel (MyAnna Buring), in the presence of their somewhat daft-looking young son, Sam (Harry Simpson). It turns out Jay, an altogether regular-looking and somewhat doughy husband type, hasn?t worked for months: He?s a hit man and the hits just haven?t been coming, since he botched his last job. Then buddy and former associate Gal (Michael Smiley) shows up at the couple?s home for a dinner party, a leggy stretch of girlfriend in tow: He wants to loop Jay into a gig he?s been offered, which requires offing a number of targets. Meanwhile, the sultry, doe-eyed girlfriend, Fiona (Emma Fryer), who looks pretty friendly and normal-like (she explains to her hosts that she works in ?human resources?), slips into the couple?s bathroom, removes a mirror from the wall, and does something funny to the back of it.
It?s the first of the movie?s numerous ?What the -- ?? moments, some of which involve episodes of…
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