X
- 1964
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1964
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Directed By: Don Siegel
Written By: Ernest Hemingway, Gene L. Coon
- 1964
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1964
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
The Killers
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Summary Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Directed By: Don Siegel
Written By: Ernest Hemingway, Gene L. Coon
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
72
67% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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The Killers redux packs one lasting, significant, retrospective jolt of perversity that far eclipses any possible artistic intentions on the part of its creators though: the sight of future American President Ronald Reagan playing a baddie in his last film role before entering politics.
Don Siegel’s remake was hardly so well received, although it is in many respects a more vivid, streamlined, callous film.
The movie defines the violent, complex persona that would make Marvin a star, and he's cast alongside the irresistibly alluring Angie Dickinson.
Though the film does not stand up to the 1946 version with Burt Lancaster, it has its own pleasures, including Marvin's rather likable role of an assassin, the exciting robbery sequence, and, of course, the villainous Reagan getting his just desserts.
The second film version (1964) of Ernest Hemingway's short story, directed by Don Siegel with far more energy than Robert Siodmak could muster for his overrated 1946 effort.
Perhaps the sole justification for turning a fine old movie into a just passable new one can be summed up as Angie Dickinson.
Donald Siegel, a talented director, is too handicapped by his limited means to do much with the fragments of plot about a fall guy involved with a mail robbery, a devious redhead and double-crosses following in predictable sequence. His actors seem dispirited by the script.
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