10 April 2012
The title makes you think of innocent victims, fast cars and Liam Neeson.
But audiences in the mood for conventional carnage are unlikely to be impressed by Jerzy Skolimowski's wondrous-looking, dreamily bloody, often wordless drama.
Vincent Gallo, is a Muslim insurgent who becomes the subject of an extended manhunt.
Suffice to say, his American enemies are exposed as decadent fools (his Eastern European ones are pretty feeble, too).
Though there's no sex, this should definitely be classed as a romance - an ode to handsome extremists who work alone. Emmanuelle Seigner (aka Roman Polanksi's wife) pops up, but merely to mop our anti-hero's brow.
Essential Killing
