1. Essential Killing - Rotten Tomatoes
Driven by a uniquely stark mood and propulsive direction, Essential Killing excels due to an unrelentingly visceral performance from Vincent Gallo. Read Critics ...
A Taliban soldier (Vincent Gallo) struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
2. Essential Killing – review | Thrillers | The Guardian
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Vincent Gallo stars in director Jerzy Skolimowski's return to form, a gripping, intriguing war film. By Peter Bradshaw
3. The limits of endurance movie review (2010) - Roger Ebert
Nov 17, 2010 · With "Essential Killing," Skolimowski comes closer than ever before to a pure, elemental story. At Venice he declined to spell out its parable, ...
Vincent Gallo is an actor not afraid of risks. Consider the challenge of making Jerzy Skolimowski's "Essential Killing," in a role for which he speaks not one
4. Review: Essential Killing (2010) @ the London Film Festival
Oct 29, 2010 · What a strange film! It reminded me throughout of Jarmusch's "Dead Man" - now I know you're not keen on him, except for "Limits of Control", ...
“At a retrospective of my work in London twenty years ago I introduced The Adventures of Gerard as my worst film,” noted the wry Jerzy Sk...
5. Essential Killing - Reeling Reviews
It is a harsh movie that pulls no punches and, on occasion, provides some shocks. There is a relentless look and feel to the film that does not overwhelm ...
Three American security specialists are on patrol in the remote wilds of Afghanistan when they stumble upon a lone Taliban fighter, Mohammed (Vincent Gallo), hiding in a cave. Before they can react, he fires an RPG at point blank range and kills all three. Mohammed flees the killing zone only to be hit with a rocket blast from a circling helicopter, destroying his hearing, and is taken by American soldiers. He is interrogated, beaten and tortured, then shipped off to some unknown destination. But, the convoy transporting him and other detainees has an accident involving pigs in the road. This fortuitous mishap suddenly sets the Mohammed free in “Essential Killing.”
6. Essential Killing (2010) directed by Jerzy Skolimowski • Reviews, film + ...
The first half or so of this is totally awesome, felt like Vincent Gallo was starring in a Metal Gear Solid movie, performing his own stunts including walking ...
A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
7. Essential Killing - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes
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8. Review: ESSENTIAL KILLING - Solid & Thrilling Cross-Country Chase ...
Mar 30, 2011 · It also features some dreadful, though pleasingly brief, flashbacks. I personally felt Gallo's character needed no further context or motivation ...
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9. Sight & Sound | Film review: Essential Killing (2010) - BFI
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10. Essential Killing (2010) critic reviews on MUBI
The political component is marginal; this is a survival story, plain and simple, and in the hands of Polish director Skolimowski, it becomes an exercise in ...
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11. Review: “Essential Killing” - IndieWire
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12. ESSENTIAL KILLING: VINCENT GALLO GIVES ... - PINNLAND EMPIRE
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Its nice to know that the "indie" & arthouse crowds are accepting films outside of the norm more and more these days. While stuff that you ...
13. A WTF film. (WITH SPOILERS). - Essential Killing (2010) Discussion
I saw him as an individual who did what he had to do to survive. I gave this movie a 5/10. I didn't particularly like it but not because a supposed fugitive was ...
My final post varies from my original one, but my sentiments are the same . . .
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
But, alas, this isn't one of those films. There isn't really any meaning to it. We know war sucks. We know both sides usually have complexities to their cause. We are talking about the Taliban here, some of the lowest scum on earth -- people who kill women, blow up children's schools, and kill someone for missing prayer. The are among the least empathetic people you can find.
I am not exactly pro-war, but whoever wrote this movie (and I am not going to bother looking that up) couldn't have picked a worse "hero" for the film. I have developed zero feeling for this man, other than disgust, and i was rooting for his death through the whole movie. Personally, that isn't why I watch movies. I like to find meaning, or sympathy, or humanity, or explosions, or depth, or SOMETHING!
If this was the purpose of the film, then mission accomplished!
EDIT: I fast forwarded though it, and I saw the Taliban piece of garbage killed a logger, for crying out loud. And that was after they showed some baloney sentimental B.S. scene with a woman and her baby?! Like we are supposed to say, "Oh, see! He isn't so bad!"
He is a murderer. I am going to fast forward again (basically watching the movie in five minutes), and I am hoping he meets a terrible end.
EDIT, part 2: Thank goodness he didn...
14. Review - Essential Killing (2010 - Dir. Jerzy Skolimowkski) - obscurendure
Feb 17, 2012 · In a similar (ish) vein to The Artist, Essential Killing is a silent film. Well, virtually. It just seems to be missing a little fellow in a ...
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15. Essential Killing Blu-ray - Vincent Gallo - DVDBeaver
Jul 9, 2011 · A double prizewinner at last year's Venice Film Festival, Essential Killing can be read as barbed commentary on the Afghanistan War. It's ...
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16. The Essential and the Unclear | Online Only - N+1
Mar 26, 2012 · Maybe the only failing of Essential Killing is that everything in it is seen so sufficiently that one doesn't feel the need to go back to watch ...
Vincent Gallo is one of the most disliked of current film actors, while George Clooney is one of the most admired, but most viewers of Essential Killing—American, Belgian, Sri Lankan, or Japanese—probably have more in common with Gallo’s “Mohammed” than they have with Clooney.
17. Essential Killing | Reviews - Screen Daily
Sep 13, 2010 · Whatever narrative shortcomings the picture might have, as a parable of these days it is certainly serviceable, though a bit too ambivalent for ...
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski Poland-Norway-Ireland-Hungary. 2010. 83mins
18. Essential Killing | Electric Sheep – reviews
Mar 23, 2011 · Sparse and economical, Essential Killing is a stripped-down, existential tale of pure survival in which Gallo, finding himself in an alien ...
Essential Killing is a stripped-down, existential tale of pure survival starring Vincent Gallo as an unnamed (possibly Afghan or Iraqi) fighter. Review by Virginie Sélavy
19. Movies You Might Not Have Seen: Essential Killing (2010) - FilmInk
It's an appropriately surreal, alienating collision of sound and vision that immediately gives cinematic form to one of the most troubling, ambiguous conflicts, ...
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20. ESSENTIAL KILLING - Irish Film Institute
A multiple prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival, this is an intense and disturbing thriller about survival. In a brilliant, dialogue-free performance, bad- ...
Four Nights with Anna (2008) may have marked veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s comeback after a 17-year absence, but Essential Killing is the movie that has put him back on the map of international cinema. A multiple prize-winner at the... Read More