I just don't know...

Disjointed. The ending doesn't fit at all. It completely genre flips. Starts out as a drama / thriller, ends up as a horror film, which ripped off A Serbian FIlm. The whole set up wasn't bad, but wasn't exactly good either, the ending was just shit that wasn't even really related to the rest of the movie. What a complete mess. Lot's of unnecessary gore too.

The coolest thing about Kill List is how it starts out as a drama and slowly becomes something much weirder and darker, with moody music, strange events and gruesome violence to create an unsettling atmosphere. Unique, but would have benefited from an actual ending. As it stands, the experience isn't satisfying enough. A shame, since I was digging the mystery, acting and cinematography.

Absolute tripe. A gloomy, leaden, mumblecore attempt at an arthouse drama about two hitmen. Nothing in the film is decently explained, nothing makes any sense; in the end it's little more than a series of violent or gory events chained together by dull scenes of men in cars, men in sheds, and strained family life. An extremely boring film with nothing to like in it, made by a rank amateur whose only two ideas, "bleak" and "grim", leave him 98% short of what's needed to make a decent picture.

Not sure what I just saw, or the motivations behind some of the characters in the third act, but I sure enjoyed the tension. Most of the film feels like that last paranoia-filled day from Goodfellas. Very well done.

Continuously falls apart, even though it wasn't put together that well in the first place.

There's a good story in there somewhere but it's buried in a pile of horrible characters and sub soap opera drama.

Beautiful, asphyxiating. Iraq and war policy in a broader sense: the creation and consequence of a certain kind of soldier, a certain kind of war. Shane Meadows + Mike Leigh + Hammer Horror.

Not bad, a bit hard to understand, and the ending didn't really make much sense to me.

After watching this I had to ask if director Ben Wheatley was related to Dennis Wheatley. He's not but he should be.

Part Boondock Saints, part satanic Wicker Man, it's all over-the-top and pretty excessive. Parts of that work (man, I can't remember the last time I actually opted to not watch a bit of violence but sure enough it happened here twice), other parts push your limits of disbelief a bit too far.

Lixo

Excellent acting, brilliant cinematography and good direction. However The Wicker Man did it before, and better, with far less viewer supposition required.

For anyone who is tired of hitman-movies...

A hodgepodge of interesting, albeit not terribly subtle, themes (capitalism is evil, dudes!) marred by some rather perfunctory horror movie plotting and a terribly trite ending. Certainly ominous and brutal in spurts, but problematic all the same. Still, I find it fascinating to think about.

I sort of liked the tense scenes with the protagonists walking down hallways to sinister music. After a long buildup there's a baffling change in genre.

How far would you go try and remain in the upper middle class and do you really have a choice?

An oppressive and unsettling atmosphere is perfectly evoked, aided by a brilliant score and natural performances, all of which come together in a genuinely interesting genre-bender that is part family drama, part hitman film, part horror movie. However when it comes to paying it all off, the whole thing comes apart with an ending that is unearned thematically, logically and emotionally.

Excellent social realism and folk horror combined. Only thing I could have wished for is better coherence.

These are the mumblingest motherfuckers I've ever seen. EXCELLENT effects and a very strong opening act, which quickly descends into mediocrity.

Kill List is messy in two different senses of the word: it has lots of splattering gore, and the story is impossible to make sense of. Plodding family drama, brutal crime flick or horror-mystery? It keeps changing its mind. There are some genuinely horrific scenes, but they seem echoed by the director's violent assault on coherence. How does one plot element connect to another? What actually happened here? So little of it clicks that even my best guess seems far-fetched.

It's pretty much a re-imagining of Boondock Saints, which would be bad enough, but this film's idiocy spans multiple genres. Kill List features a predicable plot with a schizophrenic tone and culminates in a climax so absurd and mind-numbingly retarded that it could have been written by a senior citizen who fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a subdural hematoma.

A bit of an odd one as it transcends genres which can leave you baffled after everything's said and done. Looking back however, there are hints of continuity and a foreshadowing of things to come. With that in mind we are left with something which is disturbing yet also intriguing and polarizing. As far as nit picking goes I did find the dialogue rather unintelligible at times which is a bit of a bother. Other than that I'd recommend this to those in need of something 'different'. Brrr.

Its ending is problematic. There's foreshadowing throughout and when stated simply the end meshes with its social critique, but the film's surplus of seemingly extraneous facets renders the closing imagery confusing all the same.

I was not particularly impressed by the narrative twist -- a crude hitman thriller turned into a horror of bloody rituals --, because the build up is shocking enough -- the parents fighting all the time, men getting butchered -- to make the whole thing quite creepy.

Completely unpredictable.

deeply unsettling, totally original, and flawlessly acted.

From Ken Loach to Race With The Devil in ninety short minutes! What's not to love?

I'm not sure I liked the pay-off, but the build-up of tension in this film is so beautifully crafted that it takes it out of its genre boundaries. The naturalistic acting is excellent, and the fractured editing gives it a nightmarish quality. It is also sickeningly violent. Wheatley is definitely one to watch.

The ending doesn't come out of nowhere which is the ~scariest thing of all~. Can't wait for the Nic Cage remake

Exceptionally weird and reminiscent of both "The Wicker Man" and "Dead Man's Shoes", Wheatley's sophomore effort is nothing if not unique. Believable performances, an abrupt shift from family drama to surreal horror and interesting use/blurring of (body) space come together both awkwardly and memorably. The much-maligned ending suited the film perfectly.

Started out intriguing enough, but the ending left me angry, and not in the "later impressed the director was so daring" way, but in the "tried too hard for the shocking ending out of nowhere" way.

Ending?

Starting out in the social realism end of the spectrum, and relying on some great performances, this wonderful and nasty little gem moves seamlessly through different genres, detaching itself more and more from the real before climaxing in a beautifully absurd final act. The abrupt ending is pretty annoying, but all in all Kill List doesn't disappoint.

Mondeo man goes Wicker man. This time it's not the environment; it's the credit crunch. The brutality and anxiety of being a pawn or 'cog' and the tyranny of Ascended Masters/financial overlords make for a great drama/horror. Loved this.

Plot is just too random to make sense, and every time I see a review for this film saying how it is a commentary on contemporary society I cringe. While it might have worked as a slasher, the whole family drama aspect is poorly made. ...And then comes helicopter and cultists...

This is not your average (hit man) movie. It starts out pretty normal (and violent), but halfway it jumps out of its genre and goes for your throat.

What started out as an typical thriller with slow pace,the film quickly change the tide during its climax that resulted in a large amount of horror and suspense.it is basically the redemption of its stellar beginning. without its eery head-pumping climax,the film would be nothing more than a shallow movie filled with messy dialog and graphical violent.

When the credits rolled, I wanted to sue the filmmakers for selling me something that ended up being completely different than what I bargained for. And then I couldn't get this sick, twisted tale out of my mind... Rewatch is needed.