Every week this May, Houston Chronicle Arts Editor Cary Darling hosts a foreign action film that proves kicking ass is a universal language.
If you like your martial-arts in close, cramped quarters then Nikhil Nagesh Baht's vicious and appropriately named "Kill" is like turkey on Thanksgiving. What's not to like about a film in which our commando hero, played with steely swagger by the singularly named Lakshya, is trapped on a speeding train to New Delhi with an army of bloodthirsty brutes who want him dead? Absolutely nothing. He has to use everything at his disposal -- from bed sheets to toilets -- to take down these hoods and it's pure cinematic pleasure watching him MacGyver his way through his high body count. In other words, "Kill" is the film "Bullet Train" wanted to be when it grew up. In addition to Baht, action directors Oh Se-yeong ("Parasite," "Snowpiercer," "Avengers: Age of Ultron") and Parvez Shaikh are responsible for this particularly gruesome train ride that found a global audience. In fact, Chad Stahelski, the man who turned "John Wick" into a global blockbuster, is remaking "Kill" in English. (Cary Darling)
