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- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
Summary A group of young, raw and undisciplined assassins hire a docu-crew at gun point, to have undeniable proof that they’re the ones who will kill the most infamous hitman of all time, Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger). But Gunther is on to them before they know it and he makes it his personal mission to make their lives a living hell. It becom...
Directed By: Taran Killam
Written By: Taran Killam
- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
- 2017
- R
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- 1 h 32 m
Killing Gunther
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5.1
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Summary A group of young, raw and undisciplined assassins hire a docu-crew at gun point, to have undeniable proof that they’re the ones who will kill the most infamous hitman of all time, Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger). But Gunther is on to them before they know it and he makes it his personal mission to make their lives a living hell. It becom...
Directed By: Taran Killam
Written By: Taran Killam
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
29% Mixed
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2 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
53
43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Killing Gunther is filled with explosive action. As a director, Killam displays a veteran’s knack for shooting the shootouts and fisticuffs, nearly all of it carried out in slapstick, nearly “Three Stooges”-level comedic fashion.
Save a bit of narrative padding (karaoke, anyone?), this is a mostly swift and lively ride as the tables turn — and turn again — in some absurdly clever ways.
User Score
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Based on 20 User Ratings
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25% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 User Ratings
5.1
25% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
55% Mixed
11 Ratings
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20% Negative
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A tale of bumbling assassins that isn't as Arnold-centric as we were lead to believe. The legendary action star is left to steal the show during the final act. Still, the other people onscreen are just funny enough to carry the material forward until his arrival. Shot in the mockumentary style, "Killing Gunther" tries to have a little something more going for it than just the laughs and action parody sequences. The movie explores the reason as to why these people would want to kill the world's best hitman in the first place. Something that isn't as satisfying as it could be due to the fact that it all hangs on the main character's desire to get revenge, and he's easily the least likable person onscreen.
The jokes are of a pretty simplistic nature. There are some throw-up gags and constant buffoonery at the hands on these surprisingly inept professional killers. It's pretty silly stuff, but it works. You can see it's not exactly the most sophisticated or expensively made movie out there, but it's executed just well enough to still a good time. Especially when Arnie finally appears onscreen. Be sure to sit through the credits to hear one of the funniest country-parody songs ever, curtesy of the Terminator himself.
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Not all of Killing Gunther lands as well as it should. The humor feels inconsistent at times.
It’s little more than a diverting sketch, but its characters justify its ninety minutes, and Killam’s unremitting enthusiasm is occasionally contagious.
Although the production is sporadically amusing, it feels like a 20-minute short that was expanded to feature length to its considerable detriment.
Killing Gunther is an astonishingly unfunny film considering the level of sheer comedic talent involved in it. Its lack of energy or character development keeps the film from ever finding its groove.
Unfortunately, Schwarzenegger doesn’t show up until more than an hour into this relentlessly unfunny comedy and by then viewers may have tuned out long before.
This mockumentary had some amusing and clever moments, but it wore thin after a while and became somewhat tedious. Taran Killam makes his directorial debut here, wrote the screenplay and stars in the film. He's a hitman who assembles a team of assassins to kill the mysterious and legendary hitman known as Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger). All in all, some laughs at times, but the movie did not consistently sustain its humor.
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The whole movie felt like a parody of a documentary. Which is a fresh thing and didn't do the movie any harm. The actors did a painfully average performance, except for Arnold. But it's really sad that they didn't give Arnold enough screen time. And at the end when the did it was just so forced, it felt like they just shoved it in there. The director's style, was pretty good with the shaky cam, which made it more immersive while the action scenes where rolling. But sadly this documentary like- 3rd person shooting shaky cam style is an agglomerated diction these days, so it's nothing out of the ordinary. The script was very basic, very narrow. The movie was entertaining because just not enough. It's wasn't fun to watch to the end, it got very chore like after the first 20 minutes. Fortunately it's pretty short and has no pacing issues. The visual looked awful, so bad that it looked that it was cut out of cardboard.(2/10) The humor was really lacking given the fact that this was supposedly a comedy, it was pretty serious, basically it was forcefully serious. The plot was very simple no twist, just right at the end, which you could have seen it coming from a mile. But a positive thing that saves the whole thing from being even worse of a movie is the fact that it didn't feel repetitive, nor cheesy and it wasn't cliche. Sadly Arnold couldn't save this film from sinking in it's faults. It has no message whatsoever, it's just a blow up cheap movie. Overall it's a below average movie, which is better if remains unseen. Sorry Arnold.
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Idiotic scenario with tragic actors. Even the main character is so boring and flat that a worse movie with Arnold I do not know. I know he is trying to get back to the cinema in his old good style but even his shabby humor that does not save the whole production.
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Production Company
Folktale Productions,
Ingenious Media,
Miscellaneous Entertainment,
Rookfield Productions,
Rowdy Row Productions,
RuYi Media,
StarStream Media,
WWKG Productions
Release Date Oct 20, 2017
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
Tagline They're Out to Change the Killing Business
