“A James Bond Fincher version”, “the meeting between The Samurai and Fight Club”: the first opinions on The Killer, one of the most anticipated films on Netflix

Three years after Mank, David Fincher returns with a new feature film on Netflix, the privileged partner of the famous director who has signed an exclusive contract with the platform.

Long-running project, The Killer is a psychological thriller adapted from the comic book series The killer the French Alexis Nolent (Matz), on the screenplay, and Luc Jacamon, on the illustration.

Expected on November 10 on the platform, The Killer is a six-chapter thriller that plunges us into the psyche of a hitman. After a contract that goes wrong, the latter turns against his clients – and against himself – during a manhunt across the planet. But, as he likes to repeat, it’s nothing personal…

In the cast, we find Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton but also Charles Parnell (Top Gun: Maverick), Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket) and Sophie Charlotte (Dark Days).

For this highly anticipated new thriller, some sequences of which were shot in Paris, David Fincher reunited with Andrew Kevin Walker, who had written the screenplay for Seven.

The first reviews of The Killer

Before its release on the streaming service, The Killer was previewed at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival, the festival where it competes in official competition. Due to the scriptwriters’ and actors’ strike, David Fincher was the only one present in Venice to present his new film this Sunday, September 3.

The director was treated to a standing ovation and applause for 7 minutes, which somewhat disconcerted him, as the video below can testify. The filmmaker even tried to leave the screening room during the applause.

The first feedback from the press and festival-goers on The Killers is rather positive, with rave reviews for some, and more measured or even reluctant for others. For the moment, David Fincher’s thriller is doing with more than correct ratings, since it has a score of 73/100 on Metacritic and 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

“If you’ve ever wondered what a David Fincher-style James Bond movie could have looked like, this could be the one.” – Total Movie

“There’s a fine line between introspection and self-parody, and The Killer comes dangerously close to crossing it several times too many.” – vulnerability

“Let’s just say that The Killer goes all over the place and has no moral conscience, which may put some viewers off. the posture agnostic and uninhibited by the fear of a punitive divinity or a higher moral objective of its protagonist.” – The Hollywood Reporter

“The Killer is an experiment in economy whose results are less than the effort expended. Calculating efficiency is all well and good, but it takes at least a little life to make sense of all this killing.” – Vanity Fair

“David Fincher’s The Killer gladly and openly welcomes comparisons to much of the director’s earlier filmography. But it’s truly surprising that this chilling hitman drama feels more like a side sequel to The Social Network than any other. thing.” – TheWrap

“Fincher seems to be having a lot of fun with The Killer. Although he takes it seriously as an action piece, there’s nothing too serious about it.” – Time

“We come out of The Killer with the impression of having missed its subject, without being bored. As if the fact of devoting a film to an assassin without history, without a past, without real ties either at ultimately a stray bullet.” – Paris Match

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“More satirical than ever, David Fincher returns to an archetype of cinema as one returns to his first love. And invents a new ‘killer’ to his pantheon, in a deceptively cool film with the air of political commentary.” Three colours

“David Fincher’s new Netflix film is a chiseled thriller about a philosophical killer – the encounter between The Samurai and Fight Club. […] Millimetric, chiseled, square film, an absolutely sparkling Saturday night thriller, designed for pleasure above all. Let’s get this straight: a Fincher’s delight, meaning cerebral, twisted, and slow-burning.” – First

“Whatever the pretext, as long as we have the clinical and classy efficiency of a film noir daring to travel in its own way on beaten paths and even roll mechanics on occasion – good fight sequence in a Florida house, each piece of which will end up redecorated like a puzzle.” – Telerama

The Killer will be available on Netflix on November 10.