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  2. Nov 17, 2010 · With "Essential Killing," Skolimowski comes closer than ever before to a pure, elemental story. At Venice he declined to spell out its parable, if any, and Vincent Gallo didn't attend. But the two have worked well together here to survive what must have been a grueling production.

  3. 77% Tomatometer 53 Reviews 46% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings A Taliban soldier (Vincent Gallo) struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside. Read More...

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  4. Tightly controlled by veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski and beautifully shot on location in Israel and Poland, Essential Killing is an exciting if wildly implausible fable.

  5. Jan 18, 2024 · Review. ESSENTIAL KILLING. A visually excellent unsettling thriller. This review will be as bold as it is controversial. Andrzej Wiśniewski. 18 January 2024. It will be a radical counterpoint to the automatic applause for Skolimowski’s film. It will be a cool and subjective perspective, devoid of political or patriotic bias.

  6. Oct 14, 2010 · "Essential Killing" is an admirably crafted if sometimes tedious tale of an Afghan prisoner who escapes his U.S. captors and desperately struggles for survival in a remote northern...

  7. Apr 2, 2011 · It's a stark, pared down, existential pursuit story, the protagonist being a Muslim terrorist named in the final credits as Mohammed (Vincent Gallo), who after killing three American soldiers is...

  8. I can't say that 'Essential Killing' is essential viewing. It's about a man named Mohammed (Vincent Gallo), a terrorist on the run from the US army in Afghanistan. Mohammed is captured and detained in a Guantanamo Bay facsimile, where he is given the treatment we've all read about.

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