10 Awesome Recent Movies You'll Never Watch Again
4. The Killer
David Fincher's The Killer is perhaps the filmmaker's most peculiar effort to date - a seemingly well-trod "assassin botches a hit" thriller which is actually anything but.
Fincher's latest film is positively awash in sarcasm from start to finish, depicting the travails of a hitman (Michael Fassbender) who claims to be the epitome of professionalism, and yet, constantly proves himself to be quite the opposite.
It's a resoundingly funny film, albeit one whose dark humour and subversion of the typical "hitman movie" are sly enough that general audiences likely found The Killer a bit too devious for its own good.
Less entertaining than utterly fascinating, The Killer is directed with expectedly surgical precision by Fincher, but when you cross the familiar nuts and bolts of the setup with an execution primed to turn off casual audiences looking for a basic assembly thriller, it's little surprise that many conceded this to be one of the filmmaker's minor efforts.
You'll likely glean everything you need to from a single viewing, and as great as Michael Fassbender is in it, the rewatch value simply isn't there compared to Fincher's bonafide classics like Se7en, Fight Club, and The Social Network.