Synopsis
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
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Cast
- Neil MaskellJay
- MyAnna BuringShel
- Harry SimpsonSam
- Michael SmileyGal
- Struan RodgerThe Client
- Emma FryerFiona
- Esme FolleyHotel Receptionist
- Ben CromptonJustin
- Gemma Lise ThorntonKeira
- Robin HillStuart
Recommendations
- 100
Boxoffice Magazine
Kill List is a major breakthrough for writer/director Ben Wheatley, whose assured and painstaking handling of this difficult material makes for an unforgettable viewing experience. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Director-screenwriter Ben Wheatley brings a fresh mystery and bite to the hitman genre, although a deeply weird twist and buckets of gore may throw more than a few audience members. - 80
Variety
Displaying both a nasty edge and a playful sense of humor -- but thankfully, never at the same time -- Brit import Kill List is several cuts above its fellow midbudget horror brethren. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The final twist is both baffling and repulsive, but as an evocation of the triumph of evil, it's peerless. - 80
Village Voice
Brutal and bloody and utterly unnerving, thanks in no small measure to Jim Williams's brilliant score, which is filled with strings so taut, they sound like screams you might hear in the distance and decide (quite sensibly) to ignore. - 80
Time Out
There's still tremendous vitality here, and Wheatley's avoidance of yet another Guy Ritchie gabfest is a pleasure in itself. - 75
The A.V. Club
While the sum of Kill List comes across as less than its parts, it offers some strikingly nightmarish imagery and a feel that's reminiscent of an earlier, grittier era, yet at times sharply contemporary. - 55
Movieline
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.
