The Killer is a 2023 American action thriller film[3] directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. It is based on the French graphic novel series The Killer written by Alexis "Matz" Nolent and illustrated by Luc Jacamon.[5] The film stars Michael Fassbender in the title role, alongside Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O'Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton in supporting roles. Its plot follows the titular assassin who gets embroiled in an international manhunt after a hit goes wrong.
Development on the graphic novel adaptation began in 2007 at Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment, with Fincher signed on as director and Alessandro Camon as screenwriter. In 2021, Fincher later moved the project over to Netflix with Andrew Kevin Walker replacing Camon as writer.
The Killer premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2023.[6] It received a limited theatrical release on October 27, 2023; it began streaming on Netflix on November 10, 2023. The film received positive reviews from critics.
An unnamed skillful professional assassin (credited as "The Killer") stakes out a Parisian hotel room. He prepares to use a sniper rifle to kill a target who will check into the hotel room at an unspecified time. While waiting for the target, he eats, practices yoga, listens to the Smiths, and talks on the phone with his handler, an attorney named Hodges. The Killer narrates about these activities, stressing the mantra of his rules and the routine—even boring—nature of his job and how his cynicism and lack of empathy are beneficial for his chosen occupation. The target eventually arrives in the company of a dominatrix. The Killer misses his target, accidentally shooting the dominatrix. He flees, successfully evades the police, and flies to the United States under one of his numerous fake identities.
The Killer returns to one of his hideout homes in the Dominican Republic to find that it has been broken into and that his girlfriend Magdala has been attacked. The Killer finds her sedated in a hospital and her brother watching over her. He learns that Magdala was tortured but managed to escape the assassins, who fled in a taxi. He tracks down the taxi driver, Leo, who drove the assassins to the Killer's home. Leo identifies them as a man, who was injured on his leg, and a woman whose hair resembled a "Q-Tip". The Killer shoots and kills Leo, leaving his body in his taxi.
The Killer travels to Hodges' office in New Orleans, Louisiana, and gains entry to the building disguised as a recycling worker. He restrains Hodges' secretary Dolores and destroys the electronic records of their work together. As Hodges attempts to deescalate the situation, the Killer shoots him in the chest with a nail gun in an attempt to torture the names of the hitmen out of him, but Hodges dies more quickly than the Killer anticipated by aspirating his own blood. Dolores offers to show the Killer the assassins' identities in her personal paper files in her home, asking in return that the Killer give her a quick and non-suspicious death so her children can claim her estate via life insurance; after receiving the names at her home, the Killer suddenly breaks her neck and she falls down a flight of stairs.
The Killer drives to St. Petersburg, Florida, and identifies the Brute by his limp. After a lengthy fight, the Killer overpowers the Brute and burns down his home with a Molotov cocktail. He subsequently travels to Beacon, New York, where he confronts the older expert assassin in a gourmet restaurant. Appearing to accept her fate, the Expert questions the Killer's motivations in continuing his profession. Outside, he shoots her dead after she trips and asks for a hand, noticing a concealed knife in her hand.
The Killer finally travels to Chicago, where the client, billionaire venture capitalist Claybourne, lives in an upscale apartment. The Killer observes his routine, using inexpensive tools purchased on Amazon to clone his home keycard and circumvent building security. He confronts Claybourne at gunpoint, asking him if he ordered the retaliatory hit out of personal grievance. Claybourne claims that he has no personal problem with him and, as a first-time client of a hitman, agreed to pay Hodges to tie up loose ends without knowing what that entailed. The Killer spares Claybourne, though he promises to return and kill him in a gruesome, unsuspecting way if he ever suspects that Claybourne placed another hit on him.
The Killer returns to the Dominican Republic and a recovering Magdala.
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