The Killer’s Game is a film that the few who knew about it have been waiting for literally a long time nearly three decades, as it took quite a long time for the script to go through the development phase. This movie has faced a lot of problems and transformations since its conception in mid 90s as an action comedy thriller film adapted from Jay Bonansinga’s novel of 1997. The process of making this movie seems to be a movie in itself with various studios, directors and actors being attached and detaching to the film at some point, kinda of similar to whats going on with Blade aat Marvel. Finally under the direction of J. J. Perry and starring Dave Bautista this movie is expected to provide the audience with quite an unpredictable and full of action ride.
The plot focuses on an experienced contract killer who upon receiving a lethal diagnostic on his health plans to kill himself. This decision starts a sequence of actions that must be categorized as complete chaos and anarchy, in the course as the hero struggle against numerous opponents and his desire for revenge, he learns that the preliminary diagnosis was incorrect, after the event this assumption set the path for a strong combination of the suspense, action and black humor, which should help to create a new vision of the assassin’s world.
After so many years on the making, the film manage to gather quite the cast and crew, the film’s director and producers are determined to make the movie packed with great action scenes at the same time, comedy and deeper drama. Long development time could have been beneficial for the project because during that time the project could have been matured and it could have brought changes to its concept.
A whole army of former coworkers comes out of the woodworks, every one of them a talented murderer with his or her reasons for it, these assassins all jump the protagonist like vultures and what we get is an action packed with some black comedy.
Its interesting and very cleaver to make the audience believe they understands the story line making everyone believe it is as simple that Joe is willing to die so early on the story but in fact he is presented with some new fact which alters everything.
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The story of the development of the film is a story of endurance since its inception in the mid 90s, the project has seen numerous changes:
It is expected that the movie touch certain themes but do not develop much on them as the main focus is action and comedy, drama is going to take over a secondary element to the movie. Themes like Ethical guidelines in high profile occupations for as I'm sure there are a couple of killers who once work with Joe now willing to kill him to cash on the bounty. Redemption and second changes in life, very well represented by the event where Joe is told that the diagnosis was wrong and he is not dying anytime soon, huge impact by misinformation that almost end his life, two themes that are so important now days in society as we don't often give second chances to others while destiny does to us.
I'm not expecting the movie to be a dramatic one but based on the overall environment and main events that goes into Joe's life this are a few of the themes the film might focus on, plus it is expected to be a lot of comedy within the film.
Even though this is a film that has been on the works for many years I can't find anything disruptive from it, what does make it special is the cast and its potential to be a great one time watch, but nothing that will change the action or comedy genre from now on.The film in itself is an example of perseverance and patience as it took so long to be finish, nearly three decades of Hollywood’s output. The director J. J. Perry also contributes, who works with stunt experience and action choreography, which will provide quality action scenes when joined with the lead actor Dave Bautista and other talented actors and actresses the movie can offer a unique and entertaining experience.
I can see how many can be a bit skeptic about this movie considering everything is has gone through, the more positive audience might think all that time serve well to get it prepare but in reality things don't necessarily happen that way in real life, I also have my doubts if this is just going to be an average movie with a lot of hype after the trailer.
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