Essential Killing

Product Description

In an award-winning performance (Best Actor; Venice Film Festival); Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66) plays Mohammed; a Taliban fighter captured by the US military in Afghanistan after a violent desert attack goes awry. While being transported to a secret detention center in Europe; the vehicle crashes and he suddenly finds himself free. But his newfound freedom quickly disappears as he is relentlessly pursued in a snow-blanketed forest by an army that does not officially exist. A critically acclaimed; thinking-mans action thriller from director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Shout); ESSENTIAL KILLING tells the story of one mans struggle for survival; where morality has no place as he confronts the necessity to kill in order to survive.

Review

"Brilliantly directed and shot...Vincent Gallo puts in a superb performance." --The New York Times

"It's pure action!" --Roger Ebert