A Taliban member who lives in Afghanistan is taken captive by the Americans after killing an American soldier and two contractors. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know.... (Full plot summary below)
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A Taliban member who lives in Afghanistan is taken captive by the Americans after killing an American soldier and two contractors. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know.
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| Movie HabitMarty MapesGallo's humanity is reduced to its naked essence |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordOn its surface, "Essential Killing" is a chase and survival thriller, but through his protagonist's actions, first in war, then for survival, and ultimately through his ironic ending, Skolimowski couldn't be clearer in his political intent. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellView it as an existential thriller illustrating how violence begets violence. |
| Globe and MailRick GroenStripped of its political vestments, Essential Killing is a chase film almost existential in its rawness and virtually silent in its unfolding -- just a pursued man reduced by circumstance to a primitive state. |
| London Evening StandardDerek Malcolm[A] wondrous-looking, dreamily bloody, often wordless drama. |
| Electric SheepVirginie SélavySparse and economical, Essential Killing is a stripped-down, existential tale of pure survival... |
| Time OutDavid JenkinsDelivering an absolute minimum of context, the film dares us to forge our own reasons for rooting for or despising this savage. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerDirector Jerzy Skolimowski has no time for politics, dialogue or anything approaching complexity; he simply tells a story about a man trying to survive in an utterly foreign world from one moment to the next, at any cost. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonWhat is striking about it, of course, is the way that the filmmaker manages to garner sympathy for an essential villain. |
| n+1Chris FujiwaraMaybe the only failing of Essential Killing is that everything in it is seen so sufficiently that one doesn't feel the need to go back to watch it another time (unlike most great films, which improve on repeated viewings). |
