The Killer’s Game 2024 Movie Review

Dave Bautista has saved the galaxy on multiple occasions, but now he has to save his ex-girlfriend in the new action comedy The Killer’s Game.

This addition to the 2024 new movie slate is based on the book of the same name by Jay R. Bonansinga and sees a former stuntman take his first shot behind the camera as a director (hey, that career path worked for The Fall Guy director David Leitch). But who else is starring in the movie alongside Bautista, when does it premiere and is there a trailer available?

High-flying hitman Joe Flood learns he is doomed by an illness. A Catholic, he decides not to end his life and ensures his partner is financially secure. When Flood learns he has been misdiagnosed, his new mission is to protect his wife. But several assassins are now vying for the bounty Flood promised them in anticipation of his imminent death.

Adapting Jay R. Bonansinga’s novel The Killer’s Game by is Rand Ravich and James Coyne. Here is the official synopsis for the movie:

“In the new action-comedy The Killer’s Game, when top hitman Joe Flood (Dave Bautista) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands — by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend (Sofia Boutella), he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and win back the love of his life before it’s too late.”

Dave Bautista got his start as a professional wrestler, but in recent years he has become an action movie star, with The Killer’s Game his most recent leading role. He also famously starred as Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, as well as appearing in Blade Runner 2049, Army of the Dead, Dune and Dune: Part Two, Glass Onion and Knock at the Cabin.

Also starring in The Killer’s Game is Sofia Boutella as Bautista’s character ex-girlfriend. Boutella is no stranger to the action genre, having recently been seen in Netflix’s Rebel Moon movies and Argylle, as well as Kingsman: The Secret Service, Atomic Blonde and Star Trek Beyond.

The Killer’s Game cast is rounded out by Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4), Ben Kingsley (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) and, adding a Guardians of the Galaxy reunion to the proceedings, Pom Klementieff.