GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.

Rodolphe Fleury Many people mistaken this film for one other vapid trashy early nineties film, but Killing Zoe is actually way more clever than Natural Born Killer and True Romance for example, way deeper because it has several layer of understanding. It's a film about a bank robbery, right, with a classic film noir tangent : a girl and a gun, a saint that is also a whore, a bad guy and an honest gangster ( like a real professional), it's also a film about Aids and the aids epidemic (metaphoric film about how aids kills your body, the bank being a human body, the safe being the heart, Anglade being the virus ( he rapes, shares drugs), his men being other diseases, complication of aids, and the hostages and clients are living cells and the cops anti bodies ), Nosferatu being the ultimate reference of the film, raising from his coffin (like Stoltz Anglade and Delpy throughout the film, but in reverse, they actually fall like Nosferatu raises) is a vampire who suck blood. the walls of the bank are crimson red like blood. It's also a film about evil and destruction, a profoundly nihilistic film with references and constant imitations of Nosferatu throughout the film, here again . A very complex film , the kind who's the story does not really matter : the film itself is an experience, it makes you feel something, it's visceral , you either love it or hate it, or both but it can't leave you indifferent

PeterMitchell-506-564364 On my view, I do admit I was a bit disappointed. Give it a few views, I was entertained intensely. First we have Paris, one of the most beautiful cities of the world, though we don't get to see much of it in this. Granted, this is no Pulp Fiction, some of it's dialogue with it's intellectual humor, leads us to question Quentin might of got his pen a little wet here. Like Reservoir Dogs, we have a heist gone wrong, amidst a little frank and shocking violence. (Eric) Jean Hughes Anglande has invited a childhood friend over, safe cracker Zed (Stoltz) he hasn't seen in some time. They're to do over a big bank on Bastille day, where the night before they get on the p**s and H, so obviously we're in the hand of some real experts. This too becomes a shock to Zed, who's only given a day's notice, not even having time to checked the bank out. In part, as seen to the amateur display of activities by our thieves, in these ugly masks, you could silently label this as an anti drug movie. Now here's the fun angle to the title. On the day of Zed's arrival, he's sent an escort, Zoe, (Julie Delpy) who just happens to work at the same bank, they do over, where Zed caught at a pivotal moment, towards it's end, is forced to make a choice, and I did too like the way it ended. Too, Eric's drunken admittance of aids, to Zed, made sense in the way he literally shoved Zoe out of his room, after the two's little interlude. Loved the cool opening plus it's title song, where were shown numerous streets of Paris, as if from a driver's POV. I loved the end song too, with Delpy saying "Let me show you the real Paris". Also Stoltz's whacked out POV, of visible music tunes, drifting out of friend, Anglande's trumpet. Not for all Tarantino fans.

maz underscore I don't know why this movie passed me by for so long, but last night I finally watched it and what can I say, it was brilliant. The acting is amazing, the story is gripping and the cinematography is poignant and dark.A lot films have stereotypical "good" characters for the audience to feel an affinity with; but make no mistake, there are no heroes in this film. One can't help but notice that the main character, although smooth and sexy, is involving him self with something ridiculously stupid. Zed also seems to have trouble standing up for him self, especially against his friend the ringleader, Eric. Even in the first 10 mins of the film he's hard to like for these reasons. He is however, the only character in the film you can feel any kind of empathy for. This is mainly because he is the main character and it's almost as if we are made to. I'm sure one could empathize with Zoë if she wasn't featured and characterized so little throughout the film. Her role is a very important one however, and I think we spend such little time with her in order to realize that Zed is just starting to live his life (Zoë means "life" in Greek), when he meets feels an affinity with Zoë. The audience is suppose to see what Zed sees and feel what Zed feels. He doesn't get to know Zoë well during the course of the film therefore neither do we. Another way this is achieved is through the cinematography. If you remember during the sex scene switching between the black and white horror film that was on the television and a naked Zoë from the perspective of Zed, who was lying below her. We see what he sees. Most of the shots in the first half of the film are fairly close up as well if you remember, this gives us a sense of closeness to Zed, and also of nervous tension, which is the emotion he must be feeling coming to a new city for such a reason as armed robbery.One of the things to remember when watching this film is that in order to to enjoy and appreciate a film, you don't nessecerly have to like the characters or what they do. On quite a few occasions during this film I found my self flinching, especially at the treatment and portrayal women and of course the homicidal actions of some of the main characters. However, this film is an enthralling roller coaster ride of violence, drugs and depravity and despite everything cringe worthy, it is very enjoyable. The acting is very natural, so much so that one wonders if some of it was ad-lib. Eric Stoltz is wonderful as always and Jean-Hugues Anglade is the best I've ever seen him. He plays a really good maniac!Roger Avary really should stick to what he's good at and make more films like this one.