Les Tueurs

There are undisputed genre classics that I shrug off and, at best, give them an average rating. On the other hand, there are films that I find underrated. I include The Killers among them. Because of the number of reviewers on FilmBooster, it is essentially an unknown film, although it has been shown on television here several times. If I were to compile a ranking of the best noir films, The Killers would be somewhere in the second half of the top ten. The screenplay expands a short Hemingway story about a cold-blooded murder on demand into a sophisticated scam in the underworld that surfaces years later thanks to an inquisitive and tenacious insurance agent. The famous Burt Lancaster plays an unusual role as a victim, and he's not the main character in the film. Overall impression: 90%. (17/10/2013)

Another one of the excellent noir films of its time, which shows that it didn't really matter that the violence wasn't portrayed as realistically or possibly not portrayed at all. When you have a good main character, you can tolerate some weaknesses in the execution, which are determined by the time period. The story itself, however, manages to captivate, even with the constant uncertainty of what is actually happening. (02/10/2014)