The tautness of the first hour is tremendous, and features something I never thought to see in such a movie: the spectacle of a man, hiding inside a car from his would-be killer, and doing something we would all probably do in real life: actually whimper.
King of the Hill (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:11
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
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Reviews for King of the Hill
In this solidly crafted, well performed thriller, humanity gets lost in the deep, dark woods.
A political thriller in the sense that it's bound to polarize audiences...
King of the Hill targets our fear of someone having us in their sights.
The revelation of the shooter’s identity, however, is a bit of a yawn, especially if you have seen the 2006 French film Them or last year’s British horror movie Eden Lake.
Stylishly shot, this tense Spanish thriller sees the couple lost in a mountain wilderness while being hunted by an unseen sniper.
Engaging, well made horror that gets a decent amount of tension out of its simple premise, even if it's not quite as shocking and provocative as it thinks it is.
It starts off well enough as Deliverance and Duel but becomes very conventional when, two-thirds of the way through, the snipers are revealed and it turns into what might be called Haneke-panky.
With Paul Greengrass’ eye for documentary-like realism Lopez-Gallego keeps the action close to the ground and physical.
As a work of hard-driving tension, this is satisfyingly terse, methodical and relentless.
It's at its best in a tense middle section that plays as a pared-down existential nightmare.
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