Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled
His memory is impaired by Alzheimer's, veteran assassin Angelo Leddo (Jan Decleir) is appalled to discover his intended target is a 12-year-old girl. Refusing to kill her, Leddo breaks his contract, only to have his boss carry out the hit instead. Incensed, Leddo vows vengeance and sets out to find the man who ordered the child's death. Systematically wiping out middlemen and go-betweens, Leddo leaves a blood trail that is followed by Chief Inspector Vincke (Koen De Bouw), a police detective who's desperate to learn what links the dead girl with the most powerful men in Belgium. And so, with the cops one step behind him and his memory fading fast, Leddo finds himself in a race against time as he tries to avenge a child whose face he can no longer recall.System Requirements:Running Time: 123 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE
Editor's Note
Theatrical release: August 19, 2005 (Limited)Based on a novel by celebrated Flemish crime writer Jef Geeraerts, MEMORY OF A KILLER concerns aging but ruthless hit man Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir, CHARACTER), who is succumbing to the ravages of Alzheimer's, but agrees to pull off one final job. Ledda arrives in Belgium with two targets on his list, and has no problem wiping out the first victim, who happens to be a government official. But when he discovers that the other is a 12-year-old girl, he refuses to complete the mission. Ledda's boss, Gilles (Patrick Descamps), finishes the job and attempts to kill Ledda as well, but the ailing hitman executes Gilles first. Slick young detectives Vincke (Koen De Bouw) and Verstuyft (Werner De Smedt) are assigned to the case, but it gets more difficult to unravel as Ledda goes on a rampage, taking out everyone connected to the botched job. His affliction makes him even more of a loose cannon, taking him to the heart of a web of corruption. MEMORY OF A KILLER was a huge box office success in its native Belgium and was also that country's submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2004. These distinctions are well deserved, and the film is as slick and accomplished as any Hollywood effort. High-tech and violent, director Eric Van Looy's movie garners an impressively edgy performance from Decleir.
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