Movie Title : Essential Killing Release Date : Genre Movie :Mystery & Suspense
Mpaa Rating : Unrated
Actors :Vincent Gallo,Emmanuelle Seigner,Stig Frode Henriksen
A soldier must fight for his own survival as well as the cause of his people in this powerful drama from acclaimed Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski. A pair of American security operatives (Zach Cohen and Iftach Ofir) are on patrol in Afghanistan when they stumble upon a Taliban fighter (Vincent Gallo), who kills them despite his terror and nervousness. While trying to escape, the Afghan is captured by American forces; he's tortured during interrogation, but doesn't tell the Americans anything, in part because an explosion has made it difficult for him to hear what they're saying. The Americans ship the Afghan off to a detention facility with a number of other Taliban soldiers, but upon arrival he's able to escape. However, the Afghan finds himself in a forbidding snowbound climate, and with no provisions or warm clothing he struggles to simply survive as he avoids his pursuers and struggles to find some way to get home. Shot with very little dialogue (and almost none delivered by leading man Gallo), Essential Killing received its North American premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Under the guise of current events, Skolimowski artfully conjures an elemental archetype of human life itself. In English, Polish, and Arabic.Richard Brody-New Yorker
Stripped of its political vestments, Essential Killing is a chase film almost existential in its rawness and virtually silent in its unfolding -- just a pursued man reduced by circumstance to a primitive state.
Rick Groen-Globe and Mail
View it as an existential thriller illustrating how violence begets violence.
Peter Howell-Toronto Star
Delivering an absolute minimum of context, the film dares us to forge our own reasons for rooting for or despising this savage.
David Jenkins-Time Out
The movie deftly shifts from its initial chase thriller mode to a grueling, offbeat tale of human survival.
Gary Goldstein-Los Angeles Times
Skolimowski's fresh approach keeps us on guard.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Stark and stripped-down, Jerzy Skolomowski's Essential Killing is a fatalistic fable eschewing the political in favor of the existential, now available in a fittingly barebones DVD package from New Video.
Budd Wilkins-Slant Magazine
What is striking about it, of course, is the way that the filmmaker manages to garner sympathy for an essential villain.
Jeffrey M. Anderson-Combustible Celluloid
An astonishingly dull piece of work...
David Nusair-Reel Film Reviews
Gallo's humanity is reduced to its naked essence
Marty Mapes-Movie Habit
On its surface, "Essential Killing" is a chase and survival thriller, but through his protagonist's actions, first in war, then for survival, and ultimately through his ironic ending, Skolimowski couldn't be clearer in his political intent.
Laura Clifford-Reeling Reviews
...a unique film in concept and execution. Brief moments of action are interspersed with Mohammed's struggle to survive the elements, hunger and a pursuing enemy.
Robin Clifford-Reeling Reviews
Although in terms of its core elements, Essential Killing feels as familiar as any standard Hollywood chase movie, from the Bourne and Rambo series to The Fugitive, Skolimowski ensures this is a wholly different kind of experience.
Graham Young-Birmingham Post
Whatever narrative shortcomings the picture might have, as a parable of these days it is certainly serviceable, though a bit too ambivalent for comfort. Visually, however, it is never less than stunning.
Dan Fainaru-Screen International
Gallo does his best acting work since appearing in his own directorial debut Buffalo 66 13 years ago.
Alistair Harkness-Scotsman
Essential Killing would be much less powerful if it didn't show the jihadi's physical sufferings with such visceral immediacy, and if the realism weren't strong enough to deliver surrealist shocks like the staggering final image.
Tony Rayns-Sight and Sound
Essential Killing is something of a comeback, if a relatively minor one.
Philip French-Guardian [UK]
An arresting snow-bound oddity concerning a character you can't care for and yet feel compelled to watch.
Catherine Bray-Film4
The film's nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is. Gallo starts as an extremist nutjob, killing for his beliefs - but turns into a hungry maniac, killing to stay on the run. Does the film draw a fascinating comparison between the two? No.
Robbie Collin-News of the World
The minimalism feels a bit affected, but as a near-abstract rumination on war and survival, it has a certain stark potency.
Tim Robey-Daily Telegraph
An abstract chase movie inspired by the war on terror, it starts well but fades into irrelevance.
David Edwards-Daily Mirror [UK]
It could almost have been made as a silent movie, which is a credit both to Gallo's performance and Skolimowski's pared-down storytelling.
Anthony Quinn-Independent
The stark, propulsive filmmaking and Gallo's impressively committed performance must be judged against the evasiveness of its maker's motivations.
Adam Nayman-eye WEEKLY
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Captured by the US military in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transferred to a secret black site in Eastern Europe for interrogation, where he manages to escape.TagLine Essential Killing
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