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| Guess who kills who? |
Killing Season
review – First thing I noticed about this movie is Robert De Niro and John
Travolta was acting in it so against my better judgment and some bad reviews, I
went ahead to catch this flick. To be honest, it is not a baaaaaaaaaaad watch
but it could have been so much better, like so so sooooooo much better. I’m not
sure what Robert and John was thinking when they accepted to act in this movie.
Perhaps they are not getting any ‘job offers’ so they opt to take pay cut and
be on screen before current generation forgets them…
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| I 'arrow' you, you 'shoot' me ok? |
I have no idea why and
what is the purpose of this film but here’s what I understand from the so
called ‘storyline’…Benjamin Ford (Robert) is a retired NATO Colonel who used to
serve in the Bosnian War among others and have lived through and witnessed some
gruesome outcome of the war. Once he left the service, he retrieves to the
mountain area far from the family. Meanwhile Emil Kovac (John Travolta) is a
former Serbian soldier who is also ‘wounded’ by the war and somehow is hell
bound to take revenge on Ford. Years after the war, Emil tracks down Ford and
so begins cat and mouse…ermm…make that hunter and elk game. Both men try to end
each other life in every ‘macho war like’ manner they could.
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| What is the purpose of this movie again??? o.O |
Think of the most
painful way to hurt your enemy and seconds later they are doing it. Need a teaser…imagine…getting
an arrow through your leg and ‘kena gantung’ upside down through that wound.
Getting an arrow across your mouth (as in cheeks) then ‘wash down’ the blood
with salt flavored lemonade! Are you cringing yet? I know I did and so did some
of the audience. The whole damn movie was about these two nuts trying to whack
each other. Hello….have you heard of gun? Just shoot the fella lar…why mau
torture like this?
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| Can you see my clearly now that you are upside down? |
As for cast, first
of all, Robert De Niro…I must admit, I don’t know why but I’m not really fond
of him so I secretly enjoyed watching him getting brutalized…hehehe. While
John Travolta’s fake fake fake Bosnian English accent just tickled my funny
bone but I gotta admit these two veterans did have some enemy chemistry which
made this movie a bit watchable. Other than that if you gona watch it and get
bored but still don’t want to leave the cinema, you can enjoy looking at the
hutan, mountain and waterfall scenery and also the sight of the mighty elks!
Thank God they didn’t kill any. My advice, watch it if you got nothing else to
do and if you are big big fan of either Robert or John but even then, I think
you might be disappointed with the outcome. tsk tsk tsk (What a way to end July movie previews ey?)
P/s - I was running late and reached the cinema at 9.05 pm when the email said, the movie starts at 9 pm. Thank you Nick from Churp Churp for still giving me the tickets! VIP some more woah! :D
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