Killshot

Killshot at times seemed to try to be more than it was with melancholic voice-overs and the odd 'arty' shot, but on the whole it was a decent enough thriller which kept me guessing as to the outcome - something which always raises a film in my estimations.

Mickey Rourke was good but not brilliant. In fact, in my opinion, he could've been given a bigger role and loose the sidekick sooner in the film.

All-in-all a reasonable film but nothing stunning.

Just got more boring as it went on! Quite honestly I didnt wait for the end! Very disappointing due to the talented actors involved.

Killshot is about a couple (Thomas Jane and Diane Lane) who are in the process of getting divorced. However, they witness an attempted armed robbery by partners in crime (Mickey Rourke and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and subsequently hunted down by the pair in order to ‘silence’ them – permanently.

What follows in an hour and a half of cat and mouse antics and the criminals use all their resources to track the couple down, in order to eliminate them. Not a bad premise, but the one thing I found was that I found myself rooting for the bad guys – not because I agreed with their motives, but because they were just so much more charismatic than the ‘heroes’ (think how Brad Pitt’s and Juliet Lewis’ psychotic performances outshone David Duchovney and what’s-her-name’s in Kalifornia and you’re in the right area).

Killshot isn’t anything special, or anything that you haven’t seen before. However, what makes it worth watching is the performance of the villains. Some people have commented how Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn’t pull off ‘the hard man’ act very well. Yes, he was a little manic, but, either way, I found he stole every scene from Thomas Jane and Diane Lane, but was – naturally – outdone in the psychopathic stakes by Mickey Rourke.

There’s definitely worst ways to spend an hour and a half.

One of the worst films I have ever seen - this movie has an appalling script and Mickey Rooney is unconvincing as a Native American. Joseph Gordon-Levitt should have known better...