Showing posts with label The Killer Elite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Killer Elite. Show all posts

Thursday, May 31, 2012

LIE #7: The Director as Metaphorical Henchman (a reassessment of Peckinpah’s “The Killer Elite”)


The Killer Elite (1975; Sam Peckinpah) is hardly flawless, but Peckinpah’s much maligned anti-spy meta-thriller is worth another look—especially if, like me, you’d seen it ages ago, didn’t quite like it then—
and then recently wondered why you didn’t like it.