Marcus Garan (Alain Moussi) from Chicago is a former hitman for The Company that kills domestically and internationally “bad guys”. A hitman with morals? Garan has a wife and his darling little daughter Kimberly. Unfortunately his wife is set up to be killed in the “crossfire” at a messy hit Garan has accepted as an assignment. Yes he is an angry man looking for revenge. He flounders around for a year or so feeling miserable and guilty. Then poor little Kimberly is afflicted with such a serious cardiac malady she’ll die without a heart transplant. Marcus needs cash so accepts an assignment for a hit in Tokyo that will pay him $10 million enough and more for a heart transplant.
But his employer is much more than an employer in a vey neat little plot twist. In fact there are fellow assassins in on the same hit and although the hit is on it becomes more of a “game”. A very nasty game. Lots of blood and guts flowing with finely choregraphed fight scenes. If you like this sort of deadly brawling you have found your groove with this Canadian film. The groove may be somewhat bumpy with a few too many insipid scenes of poor Kimberly popping up to inspire Daddy in his killing mission.
And the man the hitmen are competing to kill Drakos (Frank Grillo) is a nasty you know what. It is predictable which assassin gets the kill but the victim rises from the dead to propose an alliance in a comic bookish twist. And yes revenge comes Garan’s way.
All said and done the action is top rate and if there is a blemish in the film it’s the insertion of poor ill Kimberly here and there to inspire Daddy in his killing.
I sense a sequel.
The writer and director in Kevin Grevioux who created a graphic novel on which the “King of Killers” is based.
“King of Killers” will be released in theatres, Digital and On Demand September 1st.
RKS 2023 Film Rating 78/100.
You can see the trailer here https://youtu.be/_JXRDQw7EMw
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