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Killing Zoe

Killing Zoe (1994)

August. 19,1994
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6.4
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R
| Drama Action Thriller Crime

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

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Freaktana
1994/08/19

A Major Disappointment

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Dotbankey
1994/08/20

A lot of fun.

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Ezmae Chang
1994/08/21

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Guillelmina
1994/08/22

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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newjersian
1994/08/23

I have seen a lot of French screen drivel, but this one tops them all. This movie is so pointless and amateurish that I scratched my head trying to define its genre. It's not action, it's not thriller and it's not drama. It is something between a parody and just French drivel without even trying to belong to some genre. Don't waste your time, it isn't worth to watch.

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Leofwine_draca
1994/08/24

This film may have a really low budget, but it more than makes up for this in terms of manic energy. What we have here is essentially a heist movie in the DOG DAY AFTERNOON mould. Quentin Tarantino acts as executive producer and his influence obviously comes through in Roger Avary's style - it's a film packed with manic characters, lots of intense bits, graphic violence, and irrelevant dialogue.The film's overall impression is lowered by the boring first half, where nothing much really happens. There's a lot of character-building, too much in fact, and the lack of budget really shows here. In some ways it feels like an art-house movie and far too much time is spent on drug-induced nightmares like when Stoltz finds himself vomiting in a bathroom where two homosexuals go about their business nearby. It's very unpleasant and not very enjoyable to watch. In the film's sex scene, near the beginning, we see two lovers combined with clips from NOSFERATU playing on a nearby television - I'm not sure what message they were trying to put across here, but it's extremely surreal.Things really kick up a gear when our characters (eventually) arrive at the bank and almost immediately their plan starts to go awry and they start massacring the hostages and employees of the bank. Soon enough the police find out and retaliate with events culminating in a final, bloody shootout with bullets and bodies flying everywhere - this is where the film really comes into its own, a violent showdown done in a commendably old-fashioned style. The acting is fine, with Eric Stoltz cast against type as the softly-spoken leading man, a character whom we can emphasise with (his shooting of the blown-up guard is suitably powerful). Julie Delpy provides some glamour as his love interest who gets caught up in all the shooting, while Jean-Hugues Anglade is excellent as the psychopathic ringleader who loses it big time at the end. The final showdown between Stoltz and Anglade is excellent, seemingly lasting forever and totally riveting. Anglade's inevitable death really fits the bill of his crimes in this case, as he gets shot in slow-motion about a zillion times.KILLING ZOE may not be an original or particularly brilliant film, but fans of heist thrillers won't go wrong here and it has an independent, offbeat slant to it to make it commendable viewing.

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gavin6942
1994/08/25

Zed (Eric Stoltz) has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he is up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl (Julie Delpy), he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There is only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed! I believe this film comes from the same guy who wrote "Pulp Fiction", and the similarities are evident. Although the first half is a strange romance-turned-heist, the film gets increasingly violent as it carries on. This is very much the same style as "Pulp Fiction". (Both also feature Eric Stoltz.) Julie Delpy is interesting here. Although she is more or less reduced to a secondary character, it is interesting how she was something of the "it girl" as far as French women in American movies were concerned. She was not the first or the last, but it seems that at any given time there is always one French actress who is the standard for appearing in American films.

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Seth_Rogue_One
1994/08/26

And by that I don't mean that Zoe the character is boring cause she's the only redeeming factor about this movie.Played by Julie Delpy but she only has about 21 minutes of screen-time and she's not super-essential to the plot, at least not to the point that it should be named after her character.Anyways the leads are played by Eric Stoltz who's okay I guess but his character seem to be in his own little world at times a bit distant and emotionless, but to think of it that's a little bit of a trademark for a Eric Stoltz character.The other lead is some guy called Jean-Hugues Anglade who's character simple and plain is an obnoxious male chauvinistic douchebag, and so are the rest of the characters in the movie, which gets tiring really fast and the only thing they seem to do all day is use as many drugs as possible, all at once if possible which leads to many boring scenes of drug taking and talking about women's genitals and such.And halfway through the movie when some action finally kicks off it just feels like a little too late and yeah it's just a very unimpressive movie over all.

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