4/10
Star-studded and nihilistic
5 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
KILL! is a plodding European thriller that feels like a more nihilistic version of a Bond story. The film opens with a series of brutal slayings before Interpol begin to investigate and discover that a vigilante is going around taking down career criminals, from drug dealers to pornographers. Interpol's finest agents are tasked with tracking down the killer responsible and stopping him before he kills again. The production values are low on this film and the direction is poor, with sloppy editing throughout. It's a notably violent production that manages to have somebody gunned down every five minutes or so, but the quality is a disappointment. As with many European films of the era, it manages to bag some surprisingly big names in the cast. James Mason and Curt Jurgens are the superiors, Stephen Boyd a scruffy agent, and the glamorous Jean Seberg the blonde heroine of the hour.
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