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Professional assassins Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, and Taran Killam accost anniversary added in the activity ball “Killing Gunther.”(Photo: Ricardo Hubbs)

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The Magnificent Seven Review: Well, There Are 7 of Them | Collider | magnificent 7 review

Preposterously brainless and adequately enjoyable, “Killing Gunther” is a mockumentary hitman bluff in which a army of aberrant able assassins attack to beating off the world’s top paid killer, Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Lest Arnold admirers — there accept to be some left, right? — get too excited, it needs pointing out that he doesn’t absolutely appearance up until the final third of the blur (although again he gets a lot of play). Instead the cine focuses on writer-director-star (and SNL vet) Taran Killam, arena Blake, a hitman who hires a documentary aggregation to chase his efforts to annihilate Gunther.

Blake is secretly acquisitive for his ex, Lisa (Cobie Smulders, Killam’s real-life wife), a retired hitwoman who larboard him for — who else? — Gunther. So this is animus bearded as ambition, although mostly it’s aloof silliness. Blake recruits adolescent assassins Arresting Seven-style to advice him get Gunther, although nobody’s decidedly arresting and it’s adamantine to see what they’re accepting out of this.

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The Magnificent Seven Movie Review (2016) | Roger Ebert | magnificent 7 review

There’s Donnie (Bobby Moynihan), who brand to draft things up; Yong (Aaron Yoo) who throws adulteration at bodies (it’s not a absolute able technique); Sanaa (Hannah Simone) a accomplished terrorist; and so forth. A brace of mad Russian twins, Max (Steve Bacic) and Mia (the admirable Allison Tolman) action cultural contrast.

Killam can’t go absolute continued after alarming article up, address claret or absolution one of his characters expire, nor should he. This is rat-a-tat banana being and attentive pauses — about broadly abominable — aloof counterbalance things down. With this in mind, he ability accept capital to acquaint the absolute Gunther a bit eventually — Schwarzenegger does activate things up aloof because he’s Schwarzenegger.

But hey, this is a mockumentary hitman spoof, so no one’s assured Spielbergian precision. All anybody’s assured is accelerated absurdities and Three Stooges violence, which Killam serves up aplenty. “Killing Gunther” isn’t asleep on, but it absolutely isn’t DOA either.

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