The Killing
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Movie Reviews of The Killing
Movie Review: a cool caper flick
Summary: 5 Stars
Not directed, written, or edited like other crime films which makes it even more interesting. The Killing is a sharp and skillfully done crime film. Several plotlines involving different characters are successfully interwoven into one story about a racetrack robbery. The characters George, his gold digger wife Sherry, and Sherry's lover Val are great characters with a great plot. Sterling Hayden plays the ringleader and all of the performances are good. There's nothing really wrong with this film. The film gets complicated in a fascinating way and is well executed with a gripping surprise ending. The Killing is first-rate and unconventional storytelling to say the least. To divulge the specifics of the characters and plotlines would be unfair to somebody who hasn't seen it.Movie Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well , I still don't own this DVD. But I've seen the film... And I don't care about any dvd features or sound quality... I could own this movie in vhs and I would be happy...This is without a doubt , the best crime film ever made... Not just because of the excellent directing by god ( kubrick ) But it's originality , performances and well elavorated...
Pulp Fiction influenced the a lot of young directors to make movies like "The Killing" are made...
Although "the killing" is the first one... No body noticed that style untill PF came out... And after that.. Almost every movie plays with time...
But this movie... i don't care if it's the dvd or the veta...heheh You'll love it...
Movie Review: Essential Kubrick
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides being one of the best noir films ever made it gives what could be the finest lesson I've seen in how to structure a film. The multiple takes of the heist, all seen from slightly different pespectives and each one building on what we had seen in previous scenes add that indefinable element X that separates the great films from the merely good.Tarantino used this as a veritable "How to do it "text for many parts of Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown Demands multiple viewings and is not even slightly dated. I would urge anyone who has not seen it and who is in any way interested in the amazing Mr Kubrick to get it at once.Highest possible recommendation.Movie Review: The Killing: Noir's Race Horse Beauty
Summary: 5 Stars
A Kubrick film that I count among my favorites - as usual, Kubrick's foray into a genre resulted in a new high watermark for the form. The Killing, as most critics recognize, ranks among the best noir films ever made. And it still has influence -compare The Killing with Tarantino's Jackie Brown: the out-of-order scene chronology that Tarantino employs in the dress shop scam sequence is clearly patterned after the heist sequence in The Killing. Kubrick was the originator of this stylistic coup - an exceptionally bold narrative technique for 1956. A film not to be missed!Movie Review: Fine piece of influential noir...
Summary: 5 Stars
This film may not be the late master's finest work (in my opinion A Clockwork Orange holds that distinction) yet it is still a noir masterpiece and seemingly influences a lot of modern work. As a Tarintino fan, I was surprised to see a lot of The Killing in Reservoir Dogs and especially Jackie Brown (ie different perspectives of the same scene and Samuel L Jackson's quote regarding the AK-47 "When you absolutely have to kill every last..." well you get the picture). Engrossing to the very end, The Killing is required viewing for any lover of noir or Kubrick...