David Fincher’s Fight Club debuted in Venice 1999. Since then, the director has graced us with some phenomenal films, many of them about killers real or imagined. With The Killer, which premiered at Venice Film Festival earlier this year, Fincher might not shock and awe us as he did with that extraordinary earlier movie, but this is an accomplished and entertaining thriller, nevertheless.
The title credits are a treat, for starters. Jagged images that disappear before you quite realise what you’re seeing but these brief splintered scenes depict a catalogue of killings. Are they the promise of what’s to come? Not really. It transpires they are more of a greatest hits list.
