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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer is almost discovered after he's interrupted mid-narration by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that while The Killer may indeed be a professional assassin, he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he's regularly caught off-guard by even the most simple things despite his claims of "anticipating everything".

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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer is almost discovered after he's interrupted mid-narration by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that while The Killer may indeed be a professional assassin, he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he's regularly caught off-guard by even the most simple things things, despite his claims of "anticipating everything".
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** Which takes on an additional level of humour when you realise that John Wilkes Booth is a ''terrible'' role model to have as an assassin, as despite being successful in his murder of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Booth only made it twelve days before the authorities caught up to him.

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** Which takes on an additional level of humour when you realise that John Wilkes Booth is a ''terrible'' terrible role model to have as an assassin, as despite being successful in his murder of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Booth only made it twelve days before the authorities caught up to him.
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** Which takes on an additional level of humour when you realise that John Wilkes Booth is a ''terrible'' role model to have as an assassin, as despite being successful in his assassination of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Booth only made it twelve days before the authorities caught up to him.

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** Which takes on an additional level of humour when you realise that John Wilkes Booth is a ''terrible'' role model to have as an assassin, as despite being successful in his assassination murder of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Booth only made it twelve days before the authorities caught up to him.
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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer is almost discovered after he's interrupted mid-narration by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that while.The Killer may indeed be a professional, he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he's regularly caught off-guard by even the simplest things despite his claims of "anticipating everything".

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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer is almost discovered after he's interrupted mid-narration by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that while.while The Killer may indeed be a professional, professional assassin, he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he's regularly caught off-guard by even the simplest most simple things despite his claims of "anticipating everything".
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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer, in the middle of his narration, is almost discovered after he's taken completely off-guard by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that The Killer may indeed be a professional, but he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he regularly fails to anticipate even the simplest things despite his claim of "anticipating everything".

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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer, in the middle of his narration, Killer is almost discovered after he's taken completely off-guard interrupted mid-narration by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that while.The Killer may indeed be a professional, but he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he he's regularly fails to anticipate caught off-guard by even the simplest things despite his claim claims of "anticipating everything".
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** This also happens at the beginning of the film, where The Killer, in the middle of his narration, is almost discovered after he's taken completely off-guard by the ''mailman.'' It's a very early indicator that The Killer may indeed be a professional, but he's also a guy so stuck up his own ass that he regularly fails to anticipate even the simplest things despite his claim of "anticipating everything".
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** Which takes on an additional level of humour when you realise that John Wilkes Booth is a ''terrible'' role model to have as an assassin, as despite being successful in his assassination of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Booth only made it twelve days before the authorities caught up to him.
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* The AccidentalMurder itself can be seen as a hysterical EpicFail. We've spent over ''twenty minutes'' with the Killer, listening to his narration flaunt himself as a patient, philosophical, methodical assassin. When he spots his target, he lines up the sight, continuing to narrate in a way that seems on its way to cement him as cinema's next badass ProfessionalKiller... then the target's dominatrix steps in the way just as the Killer pulls the trigger, killing the wrong person and alerting his target and his security personnel to his presence. This isn't a badass after, this is just a pretentious fuck-up.

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* The AccidentalMurder itself can be seen as a hysterical EpicFail. We've spent over ''twenty minutes'' with the Killer, listening to his narration flaunt himself as a patient, philosophical, methodical assassin. When he spots his target, he lines up the sight, continuing to narrate in a way that seems on its way to cement him as cinema's next badass ProfessionalKiller... then the target's dominatrix steps in the way just as the Killer pulls the trigger, killing the wrong person and alerting his target and his security personnel to his presence. This isn't a poetic badass after, after all, this is just a pretentious fuck-up.
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* The AccidentalMurder itself can be seen as a hysterical EpicFail. We've spent over ''twenty minutes'' with the Killer, listening to his narration flaunt himself as a patient, philosophical, methodical assassin. When he spots his target, he lines up the sight, continuing to narrate in a way that seems on its way to cement him as cinema's next badass ProfessionalKiller... then the target's dominatrix steps in the way just as the Killer pulls the trigger, killing the wrong person and alerting his target and his security personnel to his presence. This isn't a badass after, this is just a pretentious fuck-up.
-->'''The Killer''': [-Fuck.-] (''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere frantically disassembles his rifle and books it]]'')
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* When the Killer finally confronts the Client, the guy is in the middle of a phone call. Seeing the stranger with a gun, the Client awkwardly tries to end the call, eventually resorting to just outright hanging up when the person on the other phone insists on continuing the call.

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* When the Killer finally confronts the Client, the guy is in the middle of a phone call. Seeing the stranger with a gun, the Client awkwardly tries to end the call, eventually resorting to just outright hanging up when the person on the other phone insists on continuing staying on the call.line.
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-->'''The Killer''': When was the last time I had a nice, quiet drowning?
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* The Killer's constant philosophical monologuing getting abruptly interrupted by the Brute tackling him is in itself pretty funny (particularly given he's interrupted right as he's talking about "anticipating everything").
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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.

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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, up an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.
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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up there will be an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.

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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up there will be up, an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.
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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, the episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.

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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, the up there will be an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.
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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, the episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment

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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, the episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and their reactions when they discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipmentequipment.

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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, the episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment



* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up, the episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' where they cut the lock on one of his units and discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.
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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding dries up that an episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' will cut the lock on one of his units and discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.

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* The Killer narrates that he owns six storage units across the United States, and that he likes to imagine that one day when the automatic funding eventually dries up that an up, the episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' will where they cut the lock on one of his units and discover it loaded with weapons, ammo and other equipment.

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-->'''The Killer''':...[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]].

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-->'''The Killer''':...[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]].Shit]].


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* The SuspiciouslyAproposMusic of the song that plays as the Killer is preparing for his visit to Hodges in the aftermath of the brutal attack on Magdala: "[[Music/TheSmiths Girlfriend in a Coma.]]"

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* The SuspiciouslyAproposMusic of the song that plays as the Killer is preparing for his visit to Hodges in the aftermath of the brutal attack on Magdala: "[[Music/TheSmiths Girlfriend in a Coma.]]"


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* When the Killer finally confronts the Client, the guy is in the middle of a phone call. Seeing the stranger with a gun, the Client awkwardly tries to end the call, eventually resorting to just outright hanging up when the person on the other phone insists on continuing the call.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''"[[ActingUnnatural Hey.]]"'']]
* In the opening scene, the Killer internally complains about not doing much "proximity work"... as in rarely getting to do assassinations that look like accidents.
* As the Killer flees from the police:
-->'''The Killer''': WWJWBD - what would UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth do?
* The Killer grows paranoid about his chances of getting out of France, and at one point retreats into a bathroom where he mentally reminds himself to calm down. Then he ends his self-pep talk by looking at himself in the mirror and disingenuously smiling:
-->'''The Killer''' ''(brightly)'': Hey.
* The SuspiciouslyAproposMusic of the song that plays as the Killer is preparing for his visit to Hodges in the aftermath of the brutal attack on Magdala: "[[Music/TheSmiths Girlfriend in a Coma.]]"
* Hodges's death, while also NightmareFuel, becomes this when the Killer predicts that he has six to seven minutes to drown in his own blood... only to realize that Hodges had died while he was thinking this.
-->'''The Killer''':...[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]].
* While fighting the Brute, the Killer tries a go at an ImprovisedWeapon by pulling something out of a kitchen drawer... only to find that he'd grabbed a ''cheese grater''.
* The implications that despite being fully willing to go toe to toe with a guy twice his size (and later proves to be jacked enough to punch several holes in his walls), the Killer is afraid of having to fight his pit bull. Considering the dog proves to be TheJuggernaut by ''smashing through the glass of a door'' to pursue the Killer, he might've been right to be afraid.
* The Killer's amazement at the accuracy of Leo's description of The Expert.
--> '''The Killer''': ''Leo said she looked like a q-tip... he wasn't that far off.''
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