David Fincher returned with his latest film that has been in select theaters and debuted on Netflix this weekend.

Michael Fassbender played the Killer, an assassin who missed his most recent target and had to face the consequences for failure.

After his girlfriend is attacked in response, Fassbender methodically started on a quest for vengeance against everyone that was involved in the attack, even adjacently.

Honestly, the story of the movie is pretty simple. Fassbender does a voice over narration but his character says almost zero lines of dialogue through the film. We follow this man who is clearly anything but your typical protagonist as he brutally and without passion executed person after person.

Fassbender is a likable actor and that helps make this assassin human, because his actions are anything but. The voice over repeats the Killer’s mantra before every kill, reminding himself to stick to the plan, and that empathy is weakness.

Fassbender is excellent in this role. It seems to fit him beautifully. Again, he is the standout of the movie because the simplistic plot is only somewhat engaging and the dialogue is nearly non-existent.

Tilda Swinton makes an appearance as one of the eventual targets and her short time on screen was excellent as always. However, we know so little about her character that it does not give us much to feel with her eventual fate.

There is an effective use of tone and mood in this piece, but it is a surprisingly sleight film.

3.6 stars