Killing Eve (2022)

To me, this movie is perfection.

That was an excellent one.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Killing Eve dresses to impress and knows who it's aimed at - women. The story of how a low-ranking British MI6 officer becomes obsessed to the cost of her marriage, job and sanity with a deadly Terminator-style Russian hit-girl. Along the way we get to visit Paris, Moscow, London, Tuscany, Berlin, and look in rich women's wardrobes and expensive shops everywhere we go. And there's a fair bit of Russian prison for the Cell Block: H aficionado.I'll make this brief, Bond. The characters have no depth whatever, they're ciphers, to use an MI6 type phrase. The Russian hit-girl is perfectly drawn as a psychopath, which means she has no empathy for anyone, so the writers can make her do whatever they want for no reason whatever, except that she's angry - we never find out why. So it's a melodrama, and because the characters have no depth, characters get bumped off randomly, and the story gets fuller and fuller of Mexican standoffs.So it's an enjoyable, well acted and staged, corny melodrama, with a dark, cheeky flavour, hints of velvet, but sadly no finish. The last episode is very unsatisfying indeed.

Really, anyone else sees the similarities between the messy but highly intelligent agent and the sophisticated and refined serial killer? I loved and enjoyed (multiple times) each scene from Bryan Fuller's Hannibal and despite this tv show is good, I can't help seeing it like a copy, even if it's not. So...watch Killing Eve first and, if you like it, then go to Hannibal, you'll love it, I promise... "and I always keep my promises" ;)

Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh are wonderful counterparts/enemies in this. It kept my attention and left me wanting more!

I really don't know what happened after the fourth episode. It felt like a new writer came on board or they ran out of ideas or they just couldn't follow up the momentum they had established. I'm not sure but I do know one thing. This show really went off the rails. A clever analyst is pursuing a skilled assassin with zero skill, zero ability to defend herself, no weapons and nothing but ignorance and vulnerability. My God. Hard to relate to a character so hapless, so unprepared, so ignorant. The opposition is always one step ahead of her. She should be dead. Yet she loved on. Sorry. Bowed out after the fifth episode. Could have been great. Why Sandra Oh anyway?