The Killer
(2024)
Overview
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Director
John Woo
Writers
Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken
Top Billed
Nathalie Emmanuel
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Top Billed Cast
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Reviews
Sejian
⭐ 4/10August 23, 2024
This movie is laughably bad. Oh my goodness.
It's nice to see Nathalie Emmanuel outside of the Furiously Fast series and it's nice seeing Omar Sy and Sam Worthington again but this movie just steadily gets more campy and more cringe and more stupid as it progresses. The best scene is probably the club hit early on, and it gives you a false sense that the movie is going to be better than the poster - it isn't. In that respect, The Killer (2024)…
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MovieGuys
⭐ 5/10August 31, 2024
Yes, we all needed another "girl boss" flick to spark our inner woke, didn't we?
What's that you say, "hell no", well then, read on. The Killer starts off with a main character, an assassin no less, who comes across as being about as tough and intimidating, as a bowl of warm mashed potato. But hey, she has a punch bag in her bohemian bedsit. Not to mention a handler who looks like he can, in fact, handle himself.
Indeed, the underlying str…
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Dr_Nostromo
⭐ 7/10April 10, 2026
73/100
Action maestro John Woo takes his 1989 film, "The Killer", and puts a new spin on it and, at least for me, it works wonderfully. Nathalie Emmanuel, as the assassin and Omar Sy, as the cop, did a great job developing extremely likable characters and some great cat & mouse moments. I even like Sam Worthington in this, which is rare. Diana Silvers as the injured singer was sort of 'meh' but she got the job done. The dialogue seemed weak at…
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$30,000,000
Revenue
$318,618