Kill List (2012)

It's about time that we got to talk about a good movie for a change, as all of the junkers we've been watching of late have begun to wear on us...

Kill List is an interesting little movie that's best described as two British Hitmen run afoul of... well, we don't really want to say what they run afoul of, as it will ruin things for you.

Let's just break down the plot like this: after a job gone wrong, two British Hitmen decide to pull one last job (never heard this plot synopsis before, have you?), only to find that the job goes deeper and has more creepy twists than they could have ever expected...

Bollocks.

So yeah, we just described the plot of most generic, B-grade action/heist flicks, even though Kill List is anything but. What we have here is a movie about some Hitmen that descends into some crazy Horror flick territory as it wears on, ending smack dab in the middle of WTF-ville. The end of Kill List seems to have divided audiences into love it or hate it camps; as for us, we liked it but think that it happened so suddenly and ended so abruptly, that it really didn't have time to affect us as it should have. It also left us with some questions that will no doubt never have clear answers, and that is never a good thing in our book.

Like us, he is searching for answers...

We can say that the movie didn't shy away from the violence, some of which was pretty cringe-inducing. It is about Hitmen after all, so you'd hope there would be some good whacking going on, right? Where the movie truly shines though, is in the subtlety of whats really going on underneath the surface if things; as we said before, where the movie goes is interesting and made us want to see it again, just to see what signs and portents we missed the first time around. Wish we could say more, but that would make us the kind of dicks that like to ruin a good thing for people, and we hate those kinds of dicks.

This picture is spoilerish enough.

Had Kill List given us a bit more to cleanse our pallet with at the end, we would have liked it more. As it stands, Kill List is a gritty, realistic, and fun ride that manages to throw a few interesting twists our way, and take the Hitman/Crime Thriller sub-genre to a whole new depth of eerie. Better than most, not as good as some, you should definitely give this one a spin in your DVD players.

B+

Despite her being in the final two Twilight movies, we still have to give some love to Myanna Buring... because how does someone so tiny get such big boobies?