1975 · action · thriller · crime
The Killer Elite
Directed by Sam Peckinpah2h 2m1975
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
Our read: The Killer Elite (1975) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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