VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Gareth Crook This is the kind of bleak film that can only be made in Britain. In the way that Scandinavian cinema gives us desaturated cinematic vistas, Britain thrives on kitchen sink drama and folklore, here mixed with a dark uneasy humour and graphic violence. It's the way it's put together though, with a subtle roughness, an honesty, all the unrequited shine buffed out. Anything called Kill List, you know is not gonna end well, but it's how you get there and the chemistry between all the cast is thick, deep, dirty, to the point that it gets to you as it builds and unravels. I really wasn't taken to start with, the first act left me cold, the vile characters had me struggling to find any attachment and the mundanity of it all left a troubling unease in my bones. It's scarily simple, ordinary, familiar, but it's not an easy watch by a long stretch, in fact there's scenes here amongst some of the most brutal I've ever seen anywhere. Neil Maskell (brilliant in Utopia) plays a killer, one with a vigilante inner voice, whilst trying to be a family man. He plays quiet catatonic calm and untethered psychotic equally well, as his two worlds collide. It's disturbing and increasingly disorientating, as the bleak mundane makes way for the creeping psychosis. It's not a film I can say I enjoyed or even liked, but for a dark, tense and twisted, violent thriller, it hits the bloody mark square between the eyes and in the final act takes an unexpected twist that will stay with me for some time.8/10

Prismark10 The version of the film I saw had an introduction by Ben Wheatley. He said he had no problems in understanding the film. Well as the director and co-writer I expect him to know what was happening!Wheatley cut his teeth in television comedies such as Ideal. His film work has been a contrast, sometimes featuring nihilistic violence. Ironically his experience of movies landed him the Doctor Who gig as he directed Peter Capaldi's debut story.Kill List is a three act film, with each act being tonally different. It starts out as domestic drama of a dysfunctional family. Jay (Neil Maskell) is angry at his wife for blowing £40k in the last eight months. Now he needs to get back with his pal Gal (Michael Smiley) to restart their jobs as hitmen where they have been handed three jobs by a sinister man under a contract signed in blood. There was a strange scene at a dinner party where Gal's new girlfriend Fiona carves some kind of sign behind a mirror. The second act is more like a thriller. Hit number one is a priest, who smiles as he is shot dead. Hit number two is a librarian, his death is more violent. Jay and Gal uncover that the librarian is involved in child porn. Yet the victim reveals something to Jay, that he recognises him. Is it as an angel of mercy or a demon? Jay bashes his body with a hammer and the victim says thank you until he dies. The death gets more gruesome as they go after people involved in the child porn ring, Jay's behaviour shows him to be unhinged.The third act turns all The Wicker Man. Jay and Gal's third hit is a politician. They stumble on some weird human sacrifice by some kind of devil worshiping cult in the countryside. The politician is part of it, as is Fiona and so is the sinister man who gave them the kill list. The cult members chase after Jay and Gal, yet some of them again welcomed their deaths.The ending is ambiguous. Was Jay being primed to be some kind of antiChrist or is he just an unreliable narrator who has gone mad? What was the deal with the bizarre knife fight with the hunchback who turned out to be Jay's wife and kid.The script had input from the rest of the cast and I did think it got muddied and confused somewhere.

danren121 Somebody watched the wicker man and then took lots of something...or something happened where more than one person thought this would make a good film or something...and then the film got made? Not sure what just happened but a film ended and I was able to record my initial dazed response above. I remember the opening scene I think and then, well, I'm still coming round. Please write it up if you've had a similar experience. It was neither subtle or intriguing. It was clumsy, gory rubbish. And the reason it didn't get away with it was because it has a crap plot. It was a bizarre attempt to make a good film without actually coming up with a decent story. Oh yeah, I remember reading a review in a national newspaper which alluded to a plot that takes a sudden unexpected turn. It can't be this movie.

tork I cannot undo what I have seen. Scrape it from my memory and return my soul from where it has been taken.This was a suspenseful start with an intrigue lingering to figure out what the hell is going on. The interest and enjoyment of this movie was ended in a plot unnecessary and cruel.Purposeless. I will never return to my eyes and ears to anything made by the director, writers or actors. May all those actors that weren't animals or children rot in hell.I want to hug my children and tell them there are terrible people in this world that will ruin your fun for their own sick purposes.I would watch re-runs of happy days over and over again, post shark jumping episode, for eternity, before ever recommending anyone to view this abhorrent film.