Movie Review: The Killer's Game

Hello Everyone,

It’s been a mixed weekend for me, focusing on only the positives, I’d say my weekend started with a win in the Friday Hivechess Tournament chess960. In the future, I will make a post about how I won and the top wins I achieved during the game. That aside, I got to watch an interesting movie on Prime Video titled The Killer's Game starring Baustista. Bautista is one of the wrestler-turned-actors I enjoy watching on my screen, right from movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Spy.

Bautista acts as a hitman called Joe Flood in this movie, where he goes on a mission to take out a criminal at a dance performance theatre in Budapest. He did not come with many weapons, like you would expect a hitman to come along with. Anyway, he is Baustista, so all he needs is a gun and his fighting skills. At the theatre, he rescues a dancer named Maize when gunshots were fired in the theatre and everybody ran for their heels.

_{Long Shot}

A simple act of kindness from Joe leads to a love story between him and Maize. Gradually, they get to enjoy each other's company, laugh at one another's jokes, and when Joe invited his handler and the handler's wife to a birthday party Maize organized for Joe, it became obvious that Joe was truly serious about Maize and building a life with her.

_{On a Date}

Like almost all love stories, there must be an antagonistic issue or antagonist that comes between the love story. In this love story between Joe and Maize, it was Joe's secret that he is an assassin, at least one for bad guys. The movie even gets more interesting when Joe gets informed that he has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A disease that gives Joe only a couple of months.

_Fight

That is not all. Joe does not want his love to see him suffer and deteriorate as a human being. So he does the craziest thing an assassin could do, which is to place a hit on himself. Joe goes to contract an assassin to take him out by placing a $2 million bounty on his head. First, he went to his handler to do the contracting of the assassin, but he refused to accept such an offer. The handler told Joe to fight instead, try everything, see a shaman, go to the mountain, or do something, and not just give up.

_{The Headache}

Rather, Joe goes to another assassin to place the bounty on his life. This new assassin does it with joy since Joe was the person who killed her father, a fellow assassin. Things become very twisted and funny when Joe's doctor calls to inform him that the diagnosis was wrong, a mix-up in the laboratory. Joe tries to call off the hit, but the assassin refuses. She wants him dead as a form of payback for her father. Rather, she increases the number of assassins on Joe and the bounty reward as well.

_{The Couple}

The movie is also funny because of the comic reliefs and characters, like the scene from the catholic church when Joe confesses his sins to a reverend father while on the run from assassins who want him dead. I had quite a blast watching this one because it is something like watching. It is an action comedy filled with love, action, comedy, twists, and a good storyline. I was a bit reluctant at first about watching the movie because I did not know what to expect from the title, The Killer's Game. To my fullest surprise, it is not that serious a movie like I thought. It is easy-going and funny to watch over the weekend.

_{I am Hive account@samostically, a chess player and writer. I love to share the experience I have gained from different battles over the 64 squares and the knowledgeable insights from books I have read. But most importantly, I am a Midnight Owl and I founded the community Midnight Letters.}

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