Peter Bradshaw 

Age of Kill review – truly terrible British sniper thriller

Laughable dialogue and constant clunking sink this outrageously shoddy Brit thriller about a marksman who is blackmailed into becoming an assassin
  
  

Age of Kill film still
Shot to hell … Age of Kill Photograph: PR

This is truly terrible: a cost-cutting British action thriller with clunky script, wooden acting, uncertain directing, cheapo-looking interiors and the most outrageously obvious and rubbish “twist” reveal at the end. Martin Kemp plays Sam Blake, a trained marksman who works for the British intelligence services. His teenage daughter is kidnapped by a shadowy figure who blackmails Sam into assassinating six people in London within 12 hours (the time keeps pointlessly popping up on screen). Some of the dialogue has to be heard to be believed. A senior police officer speculates that Blake might just be a “common-or-garden spree killer with a hard-on for head shots”. It’s the kind of line that should really be assigned to Matt Berry’s sonorous actor Steven Toast in the Channel 4 comedy Toast of London. And even he might be embarrassed.

Age Of Kill Official Trailer
 

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