Boredom personified. As an Afghan prisoner who escapes when the vehicle
in which he is traveling crashes, Vincent Gallo, in a totally wordless
performance, is excellent, (Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival), but
Jerzy Skolimowski's picture "Essential Killing" goes nowhere very, very
slowly. Skolimowski brings a documentary-like fidelity to the material
that might be admirable in another context as Gallo is pursued through
the inhospitable terrain by his mostly faceless and nameless enemies.
It's fairly grim stuff; the 'essential killing' of the title is what
Gallo is forced to do in order to survive but this isn't "The Revenant"
and as man-in-the-wilderness movies go it has little to recommend it.
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