Michael Fassbender plays a detached hitman obsessed with discipline and ritual in the caustic, unrelenting thriller that has Fincher playing in peak noir mode.
, a hired-gun thriller that lovingly channels one of the genre’s finest modern examples, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 masterpiece. The story of a cold, methodical assassin who’s driven by a strict code of conduct, and which is made with the exacting meticulousness that defines the director’s oeuvre, it’s arguably the greatest expression yet of Fincher’s style and worldview—caustic, unrelenting, and wickedly funny.) who accepts the void at the center of the universe because he is one himself.
Fassbender is the ideal actor to inhabit this murderous cipher, radiating the sort of chillingly rational, ruthless emptiness that characterized his turns in Steve McQueen’s. In the star’s hands, the killer is a machine who thrives by adhering to his ethos and its attendant routines. Quoting Popeye, he describes himself succinctly with, “I am what I am.
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