The Killer (2017) Reviews

• rubbish excuse for a film

  paz692007-02-12

  This movie, is an awful, awful, awful version of the original with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. The Plot is more or less copied word to word with very little originality. The movie lacks any kind of suspense and emotion. Although Irfan Khan may have played commendable roles in the past, his negative character in this film has very little believability. He might as well have been out buying his groceries and became irate at the service with the supermarket and decide to kill a few people on his way home in anger. Thats how believable he was. Tom Cruise's character was very dark. As for the taxi drivers role, Jamie Foxx played a character that had issues in his personal life when Tom Cruise sat in his Cab. Tom Cruise forced him to confront some of these issues and in turn brought out more of his character. Hashmi's character had nothing. He was an ordinary taxi driver with no real background story and could easily have been played by anyone. As for Kothari's role, she was just there to add the usual bit of glamour. Again no real character as Jada Pinkette played. For those of you who can sit there and claim that this is a better version....my guess is, you know very little about film. Personally i think that the producers could have made this a better film by changing Irfan to either Manoj Bajpai or even the Big B. Even then, judging by its originality, i doubt it would have been a great movie.

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• A Blatant copy of collateral!

  Sherazade2006-08-04

  why why why? is all I can ask Bollywood for producing this crap. I'm managing to give it two stars because the normally good Irfan Khan does his best to add some zest to the role of ruthless assassin made so popular by Tom Cruise. Too Bad Emran Hashmi can't back him up with the kind of fire power Jamie Fox brought to the original film as the unlucky Taxi driver who gets to chauffeur THE KILLER around town doing his dirty deeds. The minute Hashmi's girlfriend played by Nisha Kothari in the Jada Pinkett Smith role, steps on the screen, it all goes to hell. It's just too bad that unlike Pinkett Smith, Kothari or the director (whichever) chose to make her a stripper (unlike in the original movie where I believe the character was a self respecting lawyer) and we get treated to a barrage of Unsexy Smutty Slutty dance numbers featuring the up and coming actress as she professes her scantiness and lust for Hashmi's character. Hashmi is already known for his serial kisses and Bollywood notoriety, but Kothari who is a relatively new actress should watch herself, if she hopes to have a lasting career in the film industry. With the way she presents herself here, she is most likely to be downgraded to the role of serial slutty item girl very soon. She's not much of a looker either, so I just can't understand why she chooses to market herself this way. Emran tries his best to imitate an Oscar winner, while Irfan acts like the good actor he has always been. Too bad it had to be in a bad rip off of a good film!

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• Collateral copy

  silvan-desouza2014-08-05

  Bhatts have made their career ripping Hollywood films, THE KILLER was a remake of COLLATERAL in fact an almost copy paste. The film starst like an average film with romance and comedy but since Irrfan is introduced, it's well handled, though some scenes are too overdone. The scenes between Irrfan and Emraan are well handled no doubt, though it's almost ripped off from Collateral. The climax however reminds us of SADAK and is dissimilar to the original and lets you down. The cops shown in a funny way goes against the film Direction by Raksha and Hussnain is decent though the movie is copied Music is good, Teri Yaadon Mein, Dil Ko are good songs Emraan Hashmi in those days was a decent actor who mostly got typecast in his serial kisser roles, after a subtle act in Gangster, here he tends to overdo in some comic scenes but does a good job in second half when his character gets serious, his scenes with Irrfan are good and his scene with Zakir is terrific. Irrfan Khan is simply delightful, in a role which Tom Cruise did in original, he is superb. Nisha/Priyanka Kothari is average, Zakir Hussain is good in one scene he has, rest are okay

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• This is a good Movie

  silverstar3252006-08-02

  This is really a good movie, you definitely won't be bored watching this movie. It is a thriller but it also has comic moments. Emraan Hashmi acted good and Nisha Kothari wasn't in the movie that much. The movie is interesting. Irfan Khan and Emraan are in a taxi for the night and Irfan is the killer and Emraan is a taxi driver. Irfan is on a mission to kill 5 witnesses of a underworld don, he rents Emraans taxi for the entire night and goes to five different place to kill the witnesses. Emraan finds out that Irfan is the killer after the second kill.He is forced to drive for Irfan and has no other choice. Its a good movie once you see it!!

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• Excellent Movie!!

  ashokxy2006-08-23

  This is an excellent copy of Collateral. Actually, much better than the American version. I almost did not see the movie, but once I started watching I could not turn it off. The acting and the dialogues are excellent. Emraan does a great job as a taxi driver and Irfan is again the bad guy playing the role of the hired killer. Nisha Kothari does a decent job of providing glamour in the movie. The location, Dubai is also a good location for the movie. The negatives are the acting of the police team. The three main police actors seems to be hired out of a low-budget movie. This is a good thriller which is hard to find in Indian movie market.

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