Movie: The Killer (2024) Caution Spoiler Alerts

 

The Killer

Came out; 2024

Time; 1 hour 6 Minutes

Watched: Prime

Rated: R for strong/bloody violence and language

IMDB Rating; 5.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 59%

Popcorn Meter 51%

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Staring;

Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee

Omar Sy as Sey

Sam Worthington as Finn

Diana Silvers as Jenn

Story Line;

The kinetic action thriller follows Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler, Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee's alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past

Thoughts:

Way too long and drawn out. So much middle unimportant things that could have been removed to make this a really good movie.

The story line was decent, the action was pretty good, the cast was great BUT my god did I get bored watching this

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Zee is a Paris-based professional hit woman who is frequently hired by Finn, an Irishman who works for crime lord Jules Gobert, to kill Gobert's competitors in the drug trade. Her violent lifestyle has left her with few pleasures, such as the friendship of Tessier, an elderly, wealthy tailor who helps her with crossword puzzles, keeping a goldfish, and disguises for her jobs. She has gained notoriety as the Queen of the Dead in the underworld.

Zee is hired by Finn to murder the members of a Marseille drug gang who are having a good time at a local nightclub. After Zee takes out the gangsters, a young American singer named Jenn Clark becomes entangled in the chaos and suffers a fall that causes her to lose her vision. Zee spares Jenn because he feels sorry for her, even though he must kill everyone there. After finding out this, Finn sends her to the hospital where Jenn is being held in order to complete the task. Around this same period, police inspector Sey and his partner Jax attempt to apprehend Jenn's drug-dealing boyfriend "Coco," but Coco manages to get away, hurts Jax, and takes a hostage, which forces Sey to murder him. Coco was listening to a demo recording of one of Jenn's songs when he passed away, which led Sey to follow her.

By pretending to be a US embassy vice-consul, Zee enters Jenn's room and gets ready to murder her. Sey walks in at that moment to get Jenn's statement regarding the assassination, but she does not remember much because of her traumatic shock. Zee stops trying to kill him, but Sey starts to doubt her. Additionally, he links Gobert to the recent theft of a substantial quantity of heroin from Majeb Bin Faheem, an Arabian prince who is interacting with Gobert. However, because some of the gangsters involved in both crimes were dirty cops working for Gobert, his superiors thwart his investigations out of concern for the effect it will have on their careers. It is also disclosed that Finn is accountable for the heroin theft because he wants to control the Paris drug market.

Zee shows up at the hospital to take Jenn to safety before Finn's thugs can kill her. Zee and Sey, who was visiting Jax, have a brief face-to-face encounter during the ensuing shootout before Zee makes his getaway and brings Jenn to her apartment. Following her identification of Zee as the nightclub killer, Jenn admits that she and Coco have taken Bin Faheem's heroin shipment from its original thieves and transported it to a secret location in Paris. Zee lies to Finn about having gotten rid of Jenn when they meet at the same spot, an abandoned church, but Finn finds out later. Zee is found and taken into custody by Sey, who also saves his life by questioning her and discovering that she was a part of one of his previous cases against another drug dealer. After Zee breaks out of custody, he discovers that Jenn has been abducted by Finn's men. Tessier tells him that a police officer forced him to tell him when Zee calls him.

In response to Gobert's demand that Zee kill Bin Faheem for not delivering, Finn has Gobert killed. After forcing Sey into hiding by setting him up for framing, he assigns Zee the mission of killing him in exchange for her and Jenn's freedom. Zee, however, recognizes the setup, kills the assassin, reveals that Jax is on Finn's radar, and joins forces with Sey to bring Finn down after she witnesses Sey meeting Jax at the designated location and one of Finn's assassins waiting to kill her following her hit. At the church, they get the stolen heroin back and set up a drug exchange for Jenn.

After the encounter, Zee, Sey, Finn, and his assassins engage in a bloody battle, during which Sey sets off an explosive charge that destroys the drugs and causes Jenn to regain her vision. She asks a dumb question to divert Finn's attention as he is about to kill Zee, which enables Sey to slide her a gun, which she then uses to shoot Finn. After surreptitiously witnessing Jenn's reunion with her mother, she calls Sey and informs him of her intention to make a change in her life. They then bid each other a fond farewell.