They Will Kill You (2026)

Oh... I saw this. It's nothing much, but it is somewhat entertaining. I have not seen the previous movies of the director, but if I have to very unfairly put him in a category based on a single film, it would be "very enthousiastic film lover who might not be the brightest". A category he would share with Tarantino for instance. There is a very obvious love of film making, there is a very obvious film culture on display (here with references to the style of japanese saber movies of the '60s and '70s), but all this to serve a pretty mundane and tropes heavy plot that only looks for dumb fun. There is a commendable energy and enthusiasm, it has also the rare politeness these days to be a very concise movie that does not waste an hour on exposition, but I can't help this feeling that all these movies the director saw and love and that he is able to reference / mimic, he did not really understood why they are good. A kind of "sage points at the moon, idiot looks at the finger" deal.

I rated it a 2 on my 0 to 5 scale, but that's a bit harsh, because it manages to deliver pretty well what it tried to deliver: a fun mix of action, horror and comedy with stylish form and steady pace.