Killing Season (film)

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Killing Season
Millennium Films
Distributed byCorsan Pictures
FilmEngine
Release date
  • July 12, 2013 (2013-07-12)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.1 million[1]

Killing Season is a 2013 American

war veteran.[7]

Daugherty's script caught the attention of producers after winning the 2008 Script Pipeline[8] Screenwriting Competition.[9] The film received negative reviews from critics.

Plot

During the Bosnian War, American troops witness atrocities and then shoot Serb soldiers they hold accountable for them.

In present-day

Scorpions soldier Emil Kovač (Travolta), who survived the shootings, meets his informant to retrieve a file on American military veteran and former NATO operative Colonel
Benjamin Ford (De Niro).

Meanwhile, Ford has retreated to a cabin somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, to try to forget the war. Now a recluse, he meets Kovač, posing as a European tourist, during a hunting trip. The two men become friendly, until Kovač reveals his true identity.

Intent on revenge, he initiates a gory game of cat-and-mouse with Ford. The latter is badly injured but is quick to rebound. It is revealed that Ford shot Kovač in the back, crippling him for years.

After a showdown, Kovač is overpowered by Ford. They reach a peaceful compromise, however, after understanding each other's predicament. Kovač quietly returns to Serbia, happily stating “I am healing” when the injuries to his face are pointed out, while Ford visits his son, to make up for missing his grandson's baptism.

Cast

Production

The project was originally set in the 1970s and titled Shrapnel. It was being considered by John Travolta and

Santa Monica.[12] American cellist/singer/songwriter Ben Sollee contributed solo cello performances as well as an original song,[17] "Letting Go",[18]
for the end credits.

Release

Killing Season was released in the United States on July 12, 2013, to both the home screen and in cinemas.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 10% based on reviews from 20 critics.[19] On Metacritic the film has a score of 29 out of 100 based on reviews from 9 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[20]

Boyd van Hoeij of

Daily News awarded the film one out of five stars, panning Travolta's character's Serbian accent.[22] David DeWitt of The New York Times stated that "[i]t's not worthless, but it's not good. As a genre film, it's too ambitious; as an art film, it's too obvious."[23]

Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com called it "Badly written, ineptly staged, horribly acted, historically suspect and boring beyond belief".[24] Variety's Alissa Simon wrote: "The sight of Robert De Niro and John Travolta sharing the screen for the first time reps the one and only selling point of Killing Season."[25]

References

  1. ^ "Killing Season". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Alzayat, Dima (January 27, 2012). "On Location: 'Killing Season' for De Niro, Travolta in Georgia". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  3. ^
    The Anderson Independent-Mail. Archived from the original
    on June 30, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  4. ^ a b Fleming, Mike (October 29, 2011). "Robert De Niro, John Travolta Team For 'Killing Season'". Deadline. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  5. ^ a b Sneider, Jeff (October 29, 2011). "De Niro, Travolta set for 'Killing Season': Thesps to star in actioner from Millennium, Corsan". Variety. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  6. ^
    IFC
    . Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  7. ^ Vejvoda, Jim (October 30, 2011). "De Niro, Travolta in Killing Season". IGN. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  8. ^ Script Pipeline
  9. ^ Pipeline, Script (February 4, 2010). "Evan Daugherty – Script Pipeline". Scriptpipeline.com. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  10. ^ "Robert De Niro replaces Nicolas Cage in new action thriller 'Killing Season'". NME. October 31, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  11. ^ Jessica (October 29, 2011). "John Travolta and Robert De Niro to Star in Killing Season". Moviehole. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  12. ^ a b Kilday, Gregory (October 29, 2011). "Robert De Niro, John Travolta Team Up for 'Killing Season'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  13. ^ "Robert de Niro arrives in Bulgaria for Killing Season movie shoot". The Sofia Globe. October 10, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  14. Novinite.com
    . October 10, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  15. ^ Willis, Haisten (March 2012). "Local filming wraps up for 'Killing Season' starring De Niro, Travolta". Douglas County Sentinel. Retrieved November 6, 2012.[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ Crawford, Spencer (March 2012). "Hollywood for a day: De Niro in Villa Rica to shoot movie scene". Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  17. ^ Brown, Burgess (July 8, 2013). "Song Premiere: Ben Sollee - 'Letting Go'". Paste. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  18. iTunes Music Store
    . July 12, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  19. ^ "Killing Season (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  20. ^ "Killing Season". Metacritic.
  21. ^ van Heoij, Boyd (June 12, 2013). "Killing Season: Karlovy Vary Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  22. Daily News
    . New York.
  23. ^ Dewitt, David (July 11, 2013). "It's Bosnia in Appalachia". The New York Times.
  24. ^ Sobczynski, Peter (July 17, 2013). "Killing Season". RogerEbert.com.
  25. ^ Simon, Alissa (June 30, 2013). "Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Killing Season'". Variety.

External links

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