A Movie About the Perils of Being a Control Freak
David Fincher’s The Killer is a darkly funny look at a cold-blooded murderer’s tedious daily routine.
“Stick to your plan. Anticipate, don’t improvise.” This mantra, repeated in voice-over throughout David Fincher’s new film, , is a meditative refrain for the film’s unnamed assassin protagonist (played by Michael Fassbender), a reminder to keep calm no matter how intense the circumstances. It’s also the kind of brusque sentiment about homicide that one might expect from a Fincher character, given the director’s reputation as a methodical and detail-oriented storyteller who has made multiple movies about cold-blooded murderers. initially presents itself as a procedural of sorts, a step-by-step
