Now I must clarify, I didn't wholly dislike Kill List. It is a master class in suspense and tension. It's just that it got to a certain point, about three quarters of the way through, when the turn of events made me go 'what the f***?'. And not in a good way.
It starts off very ordinary. Husband and wife Jay and Shel (Neil Maskell and MyAnna Buring) are going through a rough patch. Jay hasn't worked as a sales rep for eight months and it's putting a strain on their marriage. His friend and colleague Gal (Michael Smiley) comes to dinner with his new girlfriend Fiona (Emma Fryer) and persuade him to go back to work. It quickly becomes obvious that they are not actually sales reps but hit men.
The two embark on a job that involves three kills but there is something odd about this job. The man that hired them isn't quite what he seems and neither is Fiona.
*spoiler alert* All well and good, tension building nicely, lots of intrigue, then bam from out of nowhere comes this straw-mask wearing cult who dance around naked and make human sacrifices. It all gets a bit silly from then on, although there is a brutally perverse twist at the end. I'm not adverse to a curve ball in a plot, far from it, but I just didn't get it and it disappointed me to the point of feeling cross.
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