Duane Boxwell

So after seeing Darren Van Dam's Flick Connection teaser for The Killer on Netflix, I was really excited to watch it. The opening was certainly promising. It set a mood, a sense of place and purpose that felt unlike anything I've seen recently. It felt like we were going to unwrap common tropes to discover subtleties beneath overworked themes. After all the Killer's preparations to control every possible variable, there was an instant of bad (or good, depending on perspective) luck, and he missed. So there is going to be some consequence, and that is what the movie is going to be about. And then the movie quits. Or shifts gears to a trite revenge trajectory that gets so insipid that it kinda ruins an (admittedly simple) viewer's appetite to dig any deeper. I don't understand the choice not to invest in the basic plausibility of a plot sturdy enough to hang all the themes in the article from it.