Killing Gunther (2017)

Best movie of this year hands down!

That was an excellent one.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Killing Gunther is a satirical dark comedy that is shot documentary style and is a quirky and disjointed film that is somewhat redeemed by moments of brilliance via Arnold Schwarzenegger. The premise of the film is a fairly inept, goofball group of assassins get together in attempts to take down the number one professional killer in the world and make a documentary film of such efforts. The movie itself has its moments, but overall is not a very good film. However, every scene with Arnold(Gunther) is gold and fans of his work will recognize some of his classic one liners. Killing Gunther has a hilarious, tongue in cheek performance from Schwarzenegger, which is incredible, but not enough to make up for the rest of the film and characters that for the most part are really lame. The film itself is 5/10 and every scene with Arnold is 10/10, if there was more screen time, or if this was centered around Gunther(Arnold Schwarzenegger) this would have been a whole lot better. Killing Gunther is an interesting watch that has its moments, but is mostly worth watching for Arnold.

Absolutely blunt film from a ... the bosom of the gods can not believe that people make money from these ...

To put it in a few words: stupid / useless / dull. Too bad for Arnie. I still wait his REAL come back (Expendables and Escape Plan looked good, but...). I give it 4 only for those 15-20' with Arnie

'KILLING GUNTHER': Four Stars (Out of Five)An action-comedy written and directed by debut feature filmmaker Taran Killam. Killam also costars in the movie, with Arnold Schwarzenegger (in the title role), Bobby Moynihan (Killam's SNL costar), Hannah Simone, and Cobie Smulders (Killam's wife). The film tells the tale of a group of assassins that are attempting to kill the world's greatest assassin, Gunther, but he keeps outwitting them. It's received mixed (average) reviews from critics, and it's now available for rent on video and VOD. I found it to be surprisingly entertaining, and much better than I had expected actually. Blake (Killam) is a professional hitman who decides he needs to kill the world's greatest assassin, named Gunther (Schwarzenegger), in order to become more famous. So he recruits an entire team of eccentric hitmen, and hitwomen, in order to help him do it. He also hires a documentary film crew to record everything they do, in order to prove their accomplishment. Gunther is always able to outwit the team's every move though. The film is hilarious, from beginning to end. Parts of it are really silly, but I found it all to be pretty funny. If you're expecting a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he doesn't really come into the movie until the climax though, but once he comes on screen, he steals every scene he's in. It's also totally entertaining. So I had a blast watching the film, and I didn't even think it looked that good (from the trailer). I think if you're an SNL type humor fan (especially Killam and Moynihan), and a Schwarzenegger fan, you'll definitely enjoy this movie. It's a little like an SNL skit that's extended into a movie, and a really good one at that, guest starring Arnold Schwarzenegger!