“TOUGH GUY FINDS REDEMPTION IN LOVE AND MARRIAGE”
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
THE KILLER’S GAME is a thrilling, exuberant action movie. The movie also has lots of laughs, heart and romance, and some overt, positive Christian content. Essentially, the tough hero finds redemption through love and marriage. Joe and Maize’ romance is fun and touching. However, THE KILLER’S GAME has excessive foul language and some very bloody, excessive violence. There are also some implied bedroom scenes and partial rear nudity. That said, the ending is very satisfying and even promotes marriage. MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.
CONTENT:
Strong moral worldview where protagonist tries to protect his girlfriend’s life, with marriage and a church wedding being promoted, man and woman befriend a Catholic priest when they find sanctuary in his church which has a statue of Jesus behind the altar, but priest gives a false pacificist explanation to the commandment against murder;
About 81 obscenities (including many “f” words and three light profanities;
Some extreme bloody violence just as some bloody sprays in people being killed, bloody body parts in people being exploded, people’s throats are cut in several ways, point blank shootings, people’s heads being impaled by sharp weapons, and a sniper shot explodes a male victim’s head, and lots of intense action violence such as gunfights, explosions send people flying, it’s implied woman knocks young man out with a small wooden log, lots of martial arts and other fighting, man impaled by horn of animal mounted on wall, extensive sword fight, people held at gunpoint;
Implied fornication in montage of the contract killer protagonist going on jobs (he tells girlfriend his jobs are focused on international criminals) and returning to his girlfriend and implied fornication when man with two women in his bedroom gets a phone call and orders women to leave;
A scene with dancers wearing skimpy clothing exposing their rear ends in one scene and images of upper male nudity, rear male nudity, woman in underwear, and some female cleavage;
Some alcohol use;
Brief smoking and drug use in criminal underworld; and,
Thugs kidnap hero’s girlfriend.
MORE DETAIL:
THE KILLER’S GAME is an action thriller about a hitman dying from a terminal disease who puts a contract out on himself so that the woman he loves can have his insurance money, but a big plot twist changes everything for the man and his woman. THE KILLER’S GAME is a thrilling, exuberant action movie with lots of laughs, heart and romance, and some overt, positive Christian content, but it has excessive foul language and some very bloody, excessive violence.
Dave Bautista stars as Joe Flood, the hitman with the terminal disease. While on an assignment in Budapest to kill an international criminal, Joe helps Maize, a beautiful ballet dancer who injures her ankle during a minor crowd melee. They start seeing one another, and Joe falls in love, as does Maize (pronounced “May-zee”), who’s played by Sofia Boutella.
However, a doctor treating Joe for terrible headaches he’s been having tells Joe the tests show he has a terminal neurological disease. The doctor gives Joe only three months to leave. He also tells Joe that he will start losing memory and motor function fairly soon.
Joe asks his boss, played by Ben Kingsley, to put out a contract on him so that Maize can get some insurance money to take care of herself when he’s gone. However, his boss refuses. So, Joe asks a rival, a mean lady named Marianna who has a stable of assassins, to put out the hit, for two million dollars.
The hit is supposed to take place at midnight, just after Joe’s last meeting with Maize. In that last meeting, he tells her they can no longer see each other. His news makes her very perplexed and upset.
Just before midnight, however, Joe gets some news that changes everything. Now, he must find a way to stop all the assassins coming after him while he also tries to protect Maize.
THE KILLER’S GAME is a thrilling, exuberant action movie. The movie is directed by a longtime stunt man, stunt coordinator and assistant director, J. J. Perry, who does a great job. The movie has lots of laughs, heart and romance. The romance between Joe and Maize is fun and touching, as is Joe’s friendship with his boss and his boss’ charming wife. Also, the movie’s finale takes place in a church where a friendly priest plays an important role.
However, THE KILLER’S GAME has lots of strong foul language and some very bloody, excessive violence. There are also some implied bedroom scenes and partial rear nudity. That said, the ending is very satisfying and even promotes marriage.