The Killer 电影

A mysterious killer, a skillful professional assassin, stakes out a Parisian hotel room. He prepares to kill an unnamed target who will check into the hotel room at an unspecified time with a sniper rifle. While waiting for the target, he practices yoga, eats, listens to The Smiths, and talks with his handler, an attorney named Hodges, on the phone. The killer narrates about most of these activities, stressing the routine, even boring, nature of his job, and about how his cynicism and lack of empathy benefits his job. The target eventually arrives in the company of a dominatrix. As the target watches the Dominatrix from the couch, the killer takes aim and fires but misses his mark, accidentally shooting the dominatrix, despite his meticulous methodical preparations. Bodyguards spot the killer and he flees. He successfully evades the police and flies to the United States under one of his numerous fake identities. He attempts to contact Hodges, but without success.

The killer returns to one of his hideout homes in the Dominican Republic to find that it has been broken into and that his girlfriend Magdala has herself been attacked by assassins, dispatched by Hodges in order to tie up loose ends as a make-good to the client. He tracks down the taxi driver, Leo, who helped the assassins surveil his home. Leo identifies them as an extremely muscular young man and an older, white-haired woman. The killer then ruthlessly shoots Leo, leaving his body in his taxi.

Reasoning that Hodges arranged the hit, the killer travels to Hodges's office in New Orleans, Louisiana. He gains entry to the building disguised as a sanitation worker. He restrains Hodges' secretary Dolores, destroys Hodges' electronic records of their work together, and shoots Hodges with a nail gun in an attempt to torture the names of the hitmen out of him, but Hodges dies quickly. Dolores then offers to show the killer the assassins' identities in her personal paper files in her home, asking in return that the killer grant her a quick and non-suspicious death so her family can claim her estate, which he does.

The killer drives to rural Florida, where he breaks into the home of the brutish assassin. He attempts to ambush him late at night, but the assassin notices the killer and viciously attacks him. The killer is badly injured, but still manages to kill the assassin, burning his home down afterwards. He subsequently travels to Beacon, New York, where he confronts the older assassin in a gourmet restaurant. Appearing to accept her fate, the assassin tells the killer a story about a hunter who repeatedly fails to kill a bear, before the bear finally questions the hunter's actual motivations. When the killer murders her outside the restaurant, however, a small dagger falls from her palm, indicating that she had tried to disarm and then surprise him.

The killer finally travels to Chicago, where the client, billionaire hedge fund manager Claybourne, lives in an upscale apartment. The killer observes his routine, using inexpensive tools purchased on Amazon to clone his home keycard and circumvent building security. He confronts Claybourne at gunpoint, asking him if he ordered the retaliatory hit out of personal grievance. Claybourne claims that, as a first-time client of a hitman, he was simply startled when the killer botched the hit, that Hodges suggested the idea of tie-ing up loose ends, but didn't know what that entailed, and that he has no problem with him. The killer leaves Claybourne alive, though he promises to kill him if he ever suspects that Claybourne tries another hit on him.

The killer returns to the Dominican Republic, where a recovering Magdala waits. He begins to acclimate to retirement.