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Shades of a Killer

UK 2010
produced by
Kemal Yildirim, Saima Yildirim for Knight Productions
directed by Kemal Yildirim
starring Kemal Yildirim, Saima Yildirim, Mohammad Amar, Daniel Beckett, Helen Clifford, Jimmy Cheng, Serena Catapano, Alex Chatwin, Ali Yildirim, Mike Tuppen, Rami Hilmi, Alan Impey, Monty Kazmi, Zoe Micheal, Joanne Petit, Taylan Tichborne, Azeem Choudhry, Nazeem Choudhry
written by Kemal Yildirim, music by Rick Clark, Ali Yildirim, fight choreography by Rami Hilmi

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Jaan (Kemal Yildirim) is a professional hitman for the mob, and he's the best in the business. His choice of career was triggered by the brutal assassination of his father, a powerful mob boss. But Jaan is a hitman with a heart, he lovingly cares for his brother Jem (Daniel Beckett), who has long turned his back on the mob and started a restaurant, and his girlfriend Aysha (Saima Yildirim). So when gangsters try to collect protection money from his brother, Jaan is on high alert. However, investigating the whole affair, he finds a trail that leads back to his own gang, and when both his girlfriend and his brother are kidnapped, Jaan begins to realize it is him whoever-it-is is actually after ...

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Very obviously inspired by Hong Kong heroic bloodshed and martial arts movies from the 1980's and 90's, with a bit of Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill thrown in just for good measure, Shades of a Killer admirably succeeds in recreating the look and feel of its peers, especially considering the obviously low budget, but it's not a perfect film: Basically, it takes itself way too seriously, doesn't always avoid to go the kitsch road tackling its big themes of brotherhood and the like, and seems a bit derivative at times.

The saving graces are many though: The action is greatly handled, the film's non-linear narrative structure makes the story seem fresh, director Yildirim has a definite talent for creating atmosphere (not often found in action movies), and the sheer ambition put into this movie seems infective.

In all, not a perfect movie - but a very promising one!

 

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