The Killer Elite

Having trashed his reputation across all of Hollywood, Sam Peckinpah could only return to Martin Baum and United Artists, this time on a much shorter leash than with Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and work with a story based on an unremarkable novel (Monkey in the Middle by Robert Syd Hopkins). The end result feels like Peckinpah had simply no interest in the material, treating it completely unseriously while derailing the shoot to just have a good time with his core cast. I really get...