In it, a sniper terrorizes an entire city

Of all things, two sci-fi stars take part in this one extraordinary thriller investigates to stop a brutal mass murderer. We know Shailene Woodley from the Divergent series and Ben Mendelsohn from Ready Player One and Rogue One. The successful Argentine director Damián Szifron makes his English-language debut on Catch the Killer.

Catch the Killer will be released on January 19th on Blu-ray * and DVD * and can already be pre-ordered now.

That’s what Catch the Killer is about

On New Year’s Eve, a sniper shoots 29 people. The young police officer Eleanor (Shailene Woodley) seems to be the only one who cares empathize with the killer can. That’s why she is quickly recruited by FBI agent Lammark (Ben Mendelsohn). The race against time begins as the killer causes another bloodbath.

Catch the Killer – exciting and frustratingly realistic

Blood Moon – Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Mindhunter – they all have investigators who get into the head of a serial killer. Catch the Killer also takes on this plot with the mentally unstable Eleanor. But this thriller has another component and it is exciting and frustrating in equal measure.

Because Catch the Killer presents them Greater focus on police work and it is full of pitfalls. It’s about statistics, bureaucracy, influencing career progression and so the cops often get in their own way. The focus of the narrative structure is less on the actions and more on the complex characters. Thanks to the acting performances of Woodley and Mendelsohn, viewers are drawn deeply into the story.

As exciting from the first to the last minute Anna Wollner calls the extraordinary thriller in the NDR review and adds:

Extraordinary because Szifron largely foregoes the spectacles that are otherwise common in the genre. […] We are just as in the dark as the investigators who have to fight their own demons.

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