Sadly Over-hyped

Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely Fantastic

A Masterpiece!

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.

This film has a lot of Tarintino influence in it, especially as he helped director Roger Avary make it. Like From Dusk Til Dawn, Killing Zoe spends the first half of the movie setting the scene and the rest of the movie with the action. Killing Zoe is a low budget film made in Los Angeles with a few Parisian shots. This is also Avary's first movie and I think he has some talent.Zed (Eric Stolz) has been invited to Paris by an old friend, Eric (Jean-Hughes Anglade) to crack a safe in a bank. Zed is a professional, and we see this as he sets to work opening a safe, yet he is a quiet humble man who prefers to make love than to kill. He is also a man who is easily manipulated and Eric does this quite regularly in the movie. We see Zed being forced into taking drugs and having women dragged away from him because Eric doesn't particularly like them. He is also taken of a tour through a very dark side of Paris where we see drugs, sleazy women, and men screwing like animal (I use such terminology because it is only for the selfish desire of pleasure). The next day, Bastille Day, he then must participate in a daring bank robbery. Daring because everybody is hung over, or still on drugs; it is a high security bank; and it seems very little planning has gone into it.Eric is not the typical Hollywood robber. He kills at a whim and has no preferences to who he will kill. He murders a woman and a man and lets another man go free. In fact Eric seems to have a thing against women as he brutally throws Zoe (Julie Delpy) out of the room when he first meets Zed and throws another whore across the room when she tries to seduce Zed (even though he cannot understand her). He kills people on a whim and represents the worst that humanity can offer.Zoe is another character who begins as a prostitute yet does not want to think of herself as one. She needs to money to get through school and just considers the job as a little thing on the side. Yet she knows what she is, and even though she considers herself beautiful and refined, everybody else treats her as a whore. The reality of what she does hits home when she listens to three men tell a joke about a whore.Killing Zoe is a reasonable movie and good for a low budget production. Much of the movie was spoken in French which is supposed to reflect the fact that it was in France, but this didn't irritate me as it did in Stargate when everybody spoke ancient Egyptian. Still it is a good movie and worth a watch if you can handle drugs and brutal violence.

This movie is exceptional. In same way Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are. Story is well thought out, down to the point, not all characters are fleshed out (Reservoir Dogs does fleshing out much better), but they are not meant to be for reasons that become obvious once you watch the movie.Acting is superb. Casting is great. Story is believable. Ending is perhaps predictable (or I saw too many movies, perhaps both), but it is fitting. There should be lot more movies like this one. A rare gem!This movie had rating of 6.4, I gave it a 10. I don't really understand why would anybody give it less than 8. If you are not into genre, don't watch the movie, or at least don't rate it down for all the wrong reasons. I rate movies either 1 or 10 for very simple reason. All the other numbers are meaningless. I either recommend you see a movie, or advise you to stay away as when compared to other movies of its type falls too short to bother with. I neither rate, not review average movies.

Killing Zoe revolves around Zed who was invited to Paris to contribute in a bank robbery.Unfortunately that's all the story plot contains. Rest is all about unnecessary violence which really don't make any sense.There's been also some scenes of drugs depiction and consumption.Also there is no twist in storyline,weak plot and very predictable.The only strong link of the movie is the presence of Julie Delphy who looked extremely charming.Its obvious to expect more from this movie but it do not stands anywhere around its expectations.