If you've been waiting for a fresh spin on the so-called war on terror,** Essential Killing** should tick several boxes: specifically the box marked 'Vincent Gallo' and the box marked 'going postal'.
Gallo gives an almost wordless (and sockless) performance as bearded detainee Mohammed in the film. He's captured and interrogated in an unspecified country and transported to the wintrier surrounds of Eastern Europe. In this clip he's given the chance to escape when his convoy comes to grief and if you're Dr Richard Kimble, it might bring back a memory or two.
There's scant backstory and minimal exposition here, with Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski preferring to let Mohammed's struggle with the snowbound landscape and his pursuers do the talking. Watch it below and let us know what you think.
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