The Kill Team

Krauss handles the action and intrigue with cool precision, though, and Skarsgard, with nailbrush moustache, is often chilling.

The Kill Team's depiction of toxic masculinity and bloodthirstiness within the U.S. Army is blunted by an overly passive lead performance and a lack of specificity in its storytelling.

The Kill Team is lean, sincere, impassioned filmmaking, yet it fails to leave as much of an impression as it clearly wants to.

It's actually the second half I found the most compelling... I find the last 30 minutes the most interesting of all, but [director Dan Krauss] doesn't explore it as much as I wish he would.

It's a very intense film. It is thrilling, but knowing that this all actually happened made it a little bit different for me.

[Even] at only a scant 87-minutes I had trouble maintaining interest in all that was happening all the way through to the end.

Though there is little new added to the extensive conversation surrounding the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, The Kill Team highlights the dangerous, and perhaps all too easy, radicalization that can happen in this culture.

By contrast, the new fiction film tends to suggest that the "Kill Team" was an aberrational exception in America's otherwise praiseworthy fighting force...

[Writer/director Dan] Krauss builds a level of suspense and emotional tension that ... serve as a painful reminder that serial killing in the context of war is an issue that will never be fully erased.

Much of the [film's] merit lies in the duel between its protagonists. [Full review in Spanish]