Summary
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Cast
Nathalie Emmanuel
Zee
Omar Sy
Sey
Sam Worthington
Finn
Diana Silvers
Jenn
Saïd Taghmaoui
Prince Majeb Bin Faheem
Angeles Woo
Chi Mai
Éric Cantona
Gobert
Tchéky Karyo
Tessier
Grégory Montel
Jax
Hugo Diego Garcia
Coco
Michaël Erpelding
Serge
Aurélia Agel
Juliet
Guillaume Kerbusch
Alves
Fabrice Scott
Inspector General
Kelian Maréchaux
The Breton
Elie Haddad
Avi
Lydie Muller
Jenn's Mother
Etienne Guillou-Kervern
Hallway Policeman
Vincent Winterhalter
Magistrate
Igor Skreblin
Russian Mobster "L'orange"
Octave Delepaule
Hostage Boy
Marius Delepaule
Hostage Boy
Kévin Table
Private Room Dj
David Clark
Carl Staley
Jaz Deol
Sidney
Anissa Bakhti
Givenchy Model
Grégory Loffredo
IA Cop
Jamel Blissat
IA Cop
Intissar Kitsaïs-Rotsen
Young Zee
Eesha El Hadj
Zee's Sister
Yann Brouet
Alain
Gary Cothenet
Belmont
Maxime Coulon
JM
Ahmed Chouikhi
Guy
Nicolas-Kisito Bata
Private Room Bartender
Laurent Coin
Belanger
Michaël Troude
Civil Court Man
Arthur Aspaturian
Men's Room Gangster
Clément Huet
Thug Seedy Bar
Vincent Bersoulle
Gobert Bodyguard
Michel Nguyen
Riverbank Pedestrian
Trevor Morgan
Heavy
Quentin D'Hainaut
Heavy
Hugo Bariller
Hallway Policeman
Ben Milord
Minder
Iliés Moujane
Minder
Robert 'Rock' Galotti
Henchman
Staiv Gentis
Henchman
Justin Howell
Romeo
Renaud Marc
Male Café Patron
Lauren Coda
Female Café Patron
Clémence Schreiber
Hostage Woman
Monia Moula
Nurse
Morgane Bujoli
Nurse
Navathipan Rajakumar
Security Guard
Christophe Dupuis
Detective Dropping Papers
Rachid Boulaïd
Detective Zee Escape
Bryan Vigier
Detective Zee Escape
Jérémy Margallé
Longcoat
Alexandre Lopoka
Longcoat
Frédéric Dessains
Longcoat
Jonathan Bernard
Longcoat
Daren Nop
Longcoat
David Nop
Longcoat
Eric Cullet
Longcoat
Arthur Delapierre
Longcoat
Anis Messabis
Longcoat
Maurice Chan
Longcoat
Amadéo Cazzela
Longcoat
Marvin Berrembou
Longcoat
Thibault Gassmann
Longcoat
Olivier Sa
Longcoat
Ibrahima Keita
Longcoat
Lucas Dollfus
Longcoat
Alexandre Yde
Longcoat
Crew
Director, Original Film Writer
John Woo
Screenplay
Brian Helgeland
Screenplay
Josh Campbell
Screenplay
Matthew Stuecken
Reviews
Sejian
August 23, 2024
4
This movie is laughably bad. Oh my goodness.
It's nice to see Nathalie Emmanuel outside of the Furiously Fast series and it's nice seeing Omar Sy and Sam Worthington again but this movie just steadily gets more campy and more cringe and more stupid as it progresses. The best scene is probably the club hit early on, and it gives you a false sense that the movie is going to be better than the poster - it isn't. In that respect, The Killer (2024) reminds me of Smile (2022). Folks went crazy for Smile. Smile went downhill after the opening scene and never recovered.
I watched Silent Night (2023). It wasn't horrible, but maybe John Woo should've stopped with that.
I don't care that the story isn't original, I care that the script is poorly written and the direction is lackluster. Zee is poorly written, Sey is poorly written, Jenn is poorly written, and Finn says "Kushala Daora" one-two many times. Jax is probably the best written character and he's on-screen for like 5 minutes total.
I got the impression early on that they were going for a Killing Eve (2018-2022) vibe, but yeah, no. It's just sad.
Can someone competent take this cast, this concept - this "Queen of the Dead" idea, and do it properly?
If you're looking for some female-led assassin action, check out The Protégé (2021) which wasn't a masterpiece but it was more entertaining than this, Anna (2019), Salt (2010), Red Sparrow (2018), or Atomic Blonde (2017).
