{"id":4588,"date":"2009-07-29T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2009-07-29T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:44:07","slug":"killshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/07\/29\/killshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Killshot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blog-killshot\" Killshot<\/a><\/em> (2008) \u2013 on rental. This was another film that I think had a short theatrical run in Singapore. It was released, then disappeared off theatrical screening lists before much people noticed it.<\/p>\n

The film centers on a device plot that\u2019s shown up countless times already: that of persons who witness murders committed by assassins, and are now placed in the FBI\u2019s witness protection program. As these stories must go, the program must be ineffective, and the assassins must eventually catch up to the witnesses, and there must be a show down.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s at least semi-different though are the characters. Not the witnesses \u2013 played by onscreen couple Thomas Jane (who I remember from The Punisher<\/em>) and Diane Lane, an actress who\u2019s dangerously close to getting typecast from the roles she\u2019s been in the last half-decade.<\/p>\n

Rather, it\u2019s the two assassins\u2019 characterization that\u2019s refreshing. You have an aging hired gun who\u2019s all ice cold and professional, and played by Mickey Rouke in an Indian hair-do. He\u2019s a mentor of sorts to an almost psychotic and loose cannon apprentice-assassin played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and whom I\u2019ve not seen before in the films I\u2019ve watched.<\/p>\n

The highpoint for me in this film by the numbers was the interactions between the two, though at the film\u2019s conclusion, the \u2018turn\u2019 in the two\u2019s relationship isn\u2019t surprising at all \u2013 though from the film\u2019s standpoint, it\u2019s pretty obvious the director had intended the turn to be a surprise.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the show isn\u2019t gory. The two wreck quite a bit of havoc throughout the film\u2019s length, offing characters and bystanders and civilians, execution-style. But much of that violence is shown either off-camera, or the position smartly deflects demonstration of blood and brains getting splattered all over.<\/p>\n

On balance, it\u2019s a little slow in parts, story nothing especially different from the norm, and Lane isn\u2019t in a role too dissimilar to what she\u2019s done before. Worth a watch only if you\u2019re interested in Rouke and\/or Gordon-Levitt going at and with each other.<\/p>\n

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Killshot (2008) \u2013 on rental. This was another film that I think had a short theatrical run in Singapore. It was released, then disappeared off theatrical screening lists before much people noticed it. The film centers on a device plot<\/p>\n

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