Wild Horse Nine : Just Shoot Me

Home Screen Film Reviews Wild Horse Nine: Just Shoot Me ScreenFilm Reviews Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich ponder eternal questions amid ancient stone heads in "Wild Horse Nine." Courtesy Searchlight Pictures. Some people say that filmmakers don’t make different movies, they just make different versions of the same movie over and over. Martin McDonagh’s filmmaking debut was 2008’s In Bruges, about two Irish hit men in Belgium, one of whom has secretly been tasked with killing the other because of a screw-up. Wild Horse Nine is quite similar, with two American hit men in Chile, one of whom wants the other to kill him because he’s terminally ill. I have to say that the movie that’s opening this week is quite the better one, in large part because John Malkovich gives possibly the greatest performance of his storied career. Set in 1973, the film stars Sam Rockwell as Lee, a CIA agent who’s in Chile with his mentor and partner Chris (Malkovich).

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