Cult Killer is a movie about women who have been abused and decide to take justice into their own hands by tracking down and killing child rapists and gang rapists. Of course, there are people who will see this picture and know that this picture is not meant for the faint hearted. However, even if one is not put off right away by the topic, there is a further warning sign when you look at the director, one Jon Keeyes. There’s no reason why Keeyes could not make such an analysis definitive, responsible and above all original, however glancing at the page of his biography Wikipedia, he bustles with motion pictures to a decent degree and the only paragraph concerning his biography seems to be his biography, or at least biographical facts on behalf of him or his management. None of this leads to a healthy expectation that his movies will be high culinary delights. And in fact there are no Cult Killer.
The only reason that seems commendable in Cult Killer is its need to always revolve around sexual abuse. Well, that’s not too bad provided there are offshoots that are free from its stamp. It is appropriately dark and winterish but without being gloomy in a bad way. Especially, after the first half an hour or so the pace picks up quite well, although there are a few flashbacks that do not do anything to develop the plot and only seem to be there to give Antonio Banderas more face time. But, you know, actually, Banderas is a wonderful actor for this kind of movie, so that is cool. He is rather okay throughout the film, with Rebeca’s adoptive mother having some decent moments as well, but the most interesting roles go to the two main villains – Olwen Fouere as Dottie Evans, and Nick Dunning as Dottie’s husband, Edgar. Whereas Dunning is surprisingly disgusting, crazy and ugly, making the days entertaining in some way, Fouére is an amazing actress who brings the terrifying aspect with her as the heartless head of a sex slaves trafficking family.
Even though Cult Killer stars Alice Eve as Cassie Holt, the protagonist, we feel that her performance is a bit more shaky. It’s a pretty hard job t read a bit comical windshield while woefully knowing how the story must, oddly enough, end – with a tracking down of a psycho who killed her therapist. Most of the emotional beats where she’s getting scared from memories she is quite able to portray but it would be a struggle for everyone to mesh this with some of the crass and dry B-movie banter that bailed out on the choking lines of Cult Killer where a sarcastic pretty please, with sugar on fucking top comes off as delivered by an least talented actress. Still, there is hardly anything Eve could have done regarding the scene when she just seizes the day and illegally logs on into someone’ s computer with the backtrack of your normal internet dial up laced music. It speaks for itself.
It’s things like this that ensures Cult Killer is going to be a failure from this point onward, because when a movie proposes to revolve around such harrowing, sickening subject matter; it better damn well be extremely elegant not merely regarding how it treats the most basic of such things.
Instead, Cult Killer is a fairly decent b-grade thriller that is over the top with violence and somewhat periodically switches to rape and torture details of people who are kept in enclosed spaces and miss out on days. I don’t think that’s going too far to say it is. It’s a movie without a clear concept of itself. This is not the most important point but it is shot and it is set somewhere in the country of Ireland, however it is a rather general does not seem to be connected with any particular country given the flagrant multi nation casting. Paul Reid is the only Irish actor who, by the way, is present on the screen in quite a modest role, the sixth or even seven of the most striking roles. If the action were set in England or America, the only difference in the Cult Killer is the policemen in the background would not be wearing “GardaI” across their uniforms-not even a trace of any sensible sense.
If you’re looking for a revenge drama and don’t mind all the ugliness mentioned above, Cult Killer will not be a bad option. It certainly kills time. This is the part I just cannot visualise. The kind of person you would actively advocate this film to. It is not bad in a way that one can perversely enjoy, but it also doesn’t really hit any of those types that it is trying to achieve. This is an inexpensive, cut-rate, low resources, low everything, desperate, tossing out the ideas, and by all appearances, that’s how it is going to be and by all accounts, maybe that’s how it should be.
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