Michael Fassbender is the clinical assassin, the Smiths provide the soundtrack – and Tilda Swinton’s cameo steals the show
f the three films about assassins that premiered at the Venice film festival last month, David Fincher’s). But it is the most conventional. Starring a cold-blooded, dead-eyed Michael Fassbender as a nameless, clinically efficient hired killer whose carefully constructed professional life collapses after one mistake, the film is in thrall to the movie mythology of the assassin and to the slick cynicism of Fincher’s own back catalogue.
– a few cherishable scenes that contain more wit, style and playfulness than the rest of the film put together.
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