The Killer

David Fincher’s lone assassin yarn yields to many of the “solitary hitman” conventions, but still offers some surprises amidst excellent filmmaking. In voiceover, Fassbender’s lone gunman is compulsively reciting the hitman rules, which reminded me a lot of the TV show Burn Notice. Also, the only music he ever seems to listen to is The Smiths, which could be depressing for him and expensive for the filmmakers. It’s an entertaining crime-tastic noir, a cold-fusion of James Bond and John Wick with plenty of killin’.