Killing Gunther (2017)

This is one movie where the trailer is much better than the movie, most because, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is in almost every trailer scene. The movie, on the other hand, he is rarely seen for most of the beginning of the movie, sort of. Using a documentary style format for this supposedly funny parody of the assassin genre, it initially has its semi-appeal, but the fascination begins to wear off and its somewhat hard to distinguish between parody and just poor writing, acting, or execution. A lot of the movie begins to seem so haphazard and improvised that it seems to lose the smart delightful parody motif along the way. So in a number of places in the movie become slow, boring and otherwise just amateurish. It loses any credibility and becomes a bad assassin movie because these characters, supposedly experts in the respectful fields of death, are so bad they seem to be actors trying to come across pretending to know their craft. So between an acceptable beginning, extensive explosions and a lot of cars, and during the prominent screen time of Schwarzenegger, the movie suffers. The is some adherence to a plot, but its loose and not always entertaining. One of the best parts of the movie is listening to what seems to be Schwarzenegger singing a ways into the closing credits.

Fmovies: The movie is an almost exact copy of Belgian cult classic Man Bites Dog (1992). If you watch it as a remake of that movie, it is a great experience.

Similar acting and directing work, but with a more professional camera crew. It is refreshing to see Hollywood names trying out non traditional formats and getting it right.

Good, fun Arnie action movie. He is back and he is loving it!

I probably never laughed more in my life except Kung Fury Of course it's trash, but it's very funny trash, once in a while you need this kind of movie, not serious, funny, which is made just to make you lough.

Can't understand why are you people rating it so low.

Killing Gunther fmovies. Killing Arnold

This film could have been so much better if Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the film through out it as opposed to just squished in at the end as some grand reveal. Plus as you already know the trailer spoils the heck out of the Schwarzenegger reveal, but you can't blame the trailer because they knew people would be more likely to watch a B-film if they knew a big star was in it. Long story short, editing hurts the film.

I had never heard of this film, and picked it from a menu purely based on the brief text description. It sounded potentially funny.

Having no idea of the cast, kept us guessing who could be Gunther - had we seen trailers or read reviews prior to watching, the experience might have been disappointing. Diving in with no expectations, however, kept us well entertained all the way to the end of the film!

Yes, you could often guess what was going to happen, and most characters were stereotypical, but it was still good fun. We weren't expecting a serious work of art.

Blake's nervous chain smoking was also refreshing as you don't really see that much in films, these days, with smoking having become so non-PC..

If you have managed not to see any trailers or read any spoiler reviews yet, do yourself a favour: go and watch this film with no expectations. It's actually quite hilarious!

SPOILER: Firstly if you are a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger then be warned that as others have said, although the film suggests that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a star in it, there is a suggestion of his presence throughout but in reality he is on screen only for the last 20mins or so.

The film tells the story of a odd collection of hit men (and hit women) who get together to kill Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger), another hit man.

A documentary crew follow the odd squad as they try and kill Gunther. However he is always one step ahead of them, kills them one by one but they never get to see him.

It is laugh out loud funny in places. Other jokes miss the spot. The ending is very clever. Arnold Schwarzenegger looks odd in it. I think they were trying to make him look younger.

It is also nice to see Hannah Simone playing something other than a model. Her over protective but supportive father is one of the funniest themes in the film.

The whole documentary crew footage being the film struggles in places. Especially in the big shoot out in Gunther's house where for various reasons you are supposedly left with no cameramen but footage is still filmed.

Overall though it is an amusing film but could have been done better.