Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Sharkflei
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Leofwine_draca
This film may have a really low budget, but it more than makes up for this in terms of manic energy. What we have here is essentially a heist movie in the DOG DAY AFTERNOON mould. Quentin Tarantino acts as executive producer and his influence obviously comes through in Roger Avary's style - it's a film packed with manic characters, lots of intense bits, graphic violence, and irrelevant dialogue.The film's overall impression is lowered by the boring first half, where nothing much really happens. There's a lot of character-building, too much in fact, and the lack of budget really shows here. In some ways it feels like an art-house movie and far too much time is spent on drug-induced nightmares like when Stoltz finds himself vomiting in a bathroom where two homosexuals go about their business nearby. It's very unpleasant and not very enjoyable to watch. In the film's sex scene, near the beginning, we see two lovers combined with clips from NOSFERATU playing on a nearby television - I'm not sure what message they were trying to put across here, but it's extremely surreal.Things really kick up a gear when our characters (eventually) arrive at the bank and almost immediately their plan starts to go awry and they start massacring the hostages and employees of the bank. Soon enough the police find out and retaliate with events culminating in a final, bloody shootout with bullets and bodies flying everywhere - this is where the film really comes into its own, a violent showdown done in a commendably old-fashioned style. The acting is fine, with Eric Stoltz cast against type as the softly-spoken leading man, a character whom we can emphasise with (his shooting of the blown-up guard is suitably powerful). Julie Delpy provides some glamour as his love interest who gets caught up in all the shooting, while Jean-Hugues Anglade is excellent as the psychopathic ringleader who loses it big time at the end. The final showdown between Stoltz and Anglade is excellent, seemingly lasting forever and totally riveting. Anglade's inevitable death really fits the bill of his crimes in this case, as he gets shot in slow-motion about a zillion times.KILLING ZOE may not be an original or particularly brilliant film, but fans of heist thrillers won't go wrong here and it has an independent, offbeat slant to it to make it commendable viewing.
gavin6942
Zed (Eric Stoltz) has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he is up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl (Julie Delpy), he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There is only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed! I believe this film comes from the same guy who wrote "Pulp Fiction", and the similarities are evident. Although the first half is a strange romance-turned-heist, the film gets increasingly violent as it carries on. This is very much the same style as "Pulp Fiction". (Both also feature Eric Stoltz.) Julie Delpy is interesting here. Although she is more or less reduced to a secondary character, it is interesting how she was something of the "it girl" as far as French women in American movies were concerned. She was not the first or the last, but it seems that at any given time there is always one French actress who is the standard for appearing in American films.
richieandsam
KILLING ZOEI liked it... but it was a film of 2 halves.The first half of the movie was just average at best. A group of people that get together to arrange a bank robbery, but most of the first 45 minutes was just them getting wasted on drugs and messing about around Paris. This part of the movie dragged on a bit. It was OK, but more could have happened. But the second half was awesome. The bank robbery.When the entered the bank, the movie really picked up the pace.Zoe is the receptionist in the bank that the group hold up...the problem is, Zoe is also a hooker that one of the robbers has fallen in love with. He didn't know she worked there.The cast was good though. Eric Stoltz, Jean-Hughes Anglade & Julie Delpy really do well. I connected with the characters these guys played. There were even some good supporting roles too. Especially Gary Kemp. Who would have known that the guy from Spandau Ballet could be a good actor. He was really good in the Krays too.There was one scene in the movie though that made me laugh. Someone gets shot and has about 200 bullets shot at him from a few guns all at the same time... yet he did not go down! He still stood there for about 30 seconds after. I am pretty sure he would have gone down a long time after that. Also, there is a brilliant comical scene with a cat. :)There was a really good raw feel to this movie that I loved... Tarantino usually has that feel with his films. I suppose this has it because he was Executive Producer.All in all this film was good. I will give it 7 out of 10.A slow first half, but a great second half and ending.For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl
Jamie_Seaton
with this film being directed by Roger Avery and Quentin Tarantino doing the screenplay i was sure this was going to be a gem. i was wrong. i don't hate this film but in no ways do i like it.i love Roger Avery because of his amazing direction in rules of attraction and his screenplays to pulp fiction and silent hill but he made a mistake making this. do i really need to comment on Tarantino, we all know hes a genius.this movie is just set around a gang robbing a bank but fails due to silly people participating in the robberyi'm disappointed in Tarantino and Avery for doing this film but doesn't change my mind on how amazing they both are. everyone makes mistakes......... 3/10...........j.d Seaton
