The Killing Zone (1999)
When your in The Syndicate you're in for life. This is the prospect facing Matthew Palmer, a hearless but efficient, deadly but impeccably neat assassin and confirmed Michael Caine fan. But Palmer has found love and wants out, even though he knows that wanting out can make you very quickly dead in London's sinister underworld.
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Undescribable Perfection
Highly Overrated But Still Good
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Yes I've seen The Killing Zone and it blew me away! It's Lock stock meets Get Carter! Way better than Layer Cake (even dear old Lock stock) it's got great photography, cool acting, in parts funny and very engaging (I loved Matthew Palmer) But what I really liked about it was the way it was directed (Fine work Mr Diaz) scenes were actually very exciting so that at times you felt concerned when certain characters were in peril. All UK thriller movies should be made this way! I can't believe I missed this movie when I was in the UK five years ago. Anyhow, go see it you'll love it, trust me!
If you like gangster films, go watch this one! If you don´t like them... go watch this one!This film is brilliantly slow with unexpected turns which makes it very funny. Time which a movie provides has been used very good and the characters are real. Especially the acting of the main character, Matthew Palmer is brilliant! The coolest person you´ll ever see and will never see again. If all hitmen were like him, you´d better watch it.
The killing Zone was a great film with excellent characterisation, an unusual plot line and greaat visualisation. It has irony and humour and shows what can be achieved by small independent film makers with determination and talent.I look forward to seeing the next offering from Diaz.
There have been a plethora of British gangster movies lately, mostly pretty awful, but this one is a pleasant surprise. Whilst highly derivative, of "Get Carter", "Pulp Fiction", "Reservoir Dogs" and a host of other titles, "The Killing Zone" is nevertheless executed with great panache. Made up of three inter-connected stories, the third one goes a little awry but still generates a good deal of tension. Fine music score by Guy Michelmore.