Kill List (2011)
5/10
A nonsensical movie trying to be Wicker Man
17 November 2021
Two warr crime ridden vets live off being contract killers. Their boring lives are shown in boring English meetup, where chubby one freaks out. He is married with nice small kid and a Swedish wife who tolerates his outbursts with love, while his army buddy has some witchybi tchy gf, who acts sus and marks back of a mirror with some cult sign. As they go to get the targets they get three kills to do. First one, a priest, is offed clean, but thanks the chubby one before the shot clean into his head. The second is pe-do filmmaking involved, so they smash him to pulp, and proceed to kill beyond the call of duty others involved. The chubby one is thanked again, and it is implied he is the chosen one. The third task is killing of some politician, living in a nice imperial mansion amidst of woods. As they prepare their snipers some wicker like festival is going on. Cult hangs a blonde who merrily waves before doing some nice dance as she is hung. The not-so-professional killers who tried to bail out but were threatened into the third act start shooting the crowd and are chased into some narrow channel. The crazy cult people running in hordes is somewhat scary. They gut the other guy and chubby one offs his friend who again thanks him cuz he helped him die not from guts, shown graphically being held by his hand, popping out but by merciful angel of imperialist fellow soldier with similar Iraq experiences. He returns to home but is chased, his wife gets gun but then he exits and is caught. In the end he is forced to fight with sword some hunchback in front of cultists, who turn out to be the his wife and son who both he kills unknowingly, wife creepily giggling in disbelief before dying .The cultist turn out to contain the employers and the witchybi tchy gf, all that being some cult practice, they even put doctor to be a cult member when the chubby one tries to treat his infected cut on his palm, cut in some strange ritual by the employer. The cult has thus accepted a new member of significance, the chubby one, the chosen one, all was just "reconstruction", the plot actually has another meaning like in Wicker Man, who is also imitated by some strawy head masks. Loads of pretentious nonsense, so called folk horror, pretty boring movie that imitates several other movies but ultimately fails in its cheap pretensions.
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