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Despite Tanović’s efforts to depict these crimes and their aftermath as aestheticized abstractions, there’s something depressingly mundane about the way the murders and the investigation play out.Įver since “The Silence of the Lambs” turned an elaborately grisly serial killer plot into an award-winning mega-hit, movie theaters and TV screens alike have been filled with colorful predators and their tortured trackers, trapped in a bloody game of cat and mouse. Once the hero and his allies zero in on a suspect, their primary task is to learn more about the killer’s background and decipher the clues to the next strike. The mystery elements of “The Postcard Killings” don’t hold much suspense. With the help of investigative journalist Dessie Leonard (Cush Jumbo) and some fellow lawmen, Jacob uncovers a pattern of macabre murders, each preceded by the arrival of a mysterious postcard. Oscar-winning “No Man’s Land” director Danis Tanović puts an art house gloss on the lurid story of a New York cop named Jacob Kanon ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who’s trying to hunt down the person or persons who killed his daughter in London. The mediocre movie version is called “The Postcard Killings” - a retitling as clumsy as the film itself. RLJE Films will release Tanovic's The Postcard Killings in select theaters + on VOD starting March 13th coming up.James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s best-selling 2010 mystery novel “The Postcard Killers” combined Patterson’s page-turner instincts with Marklund’s moody Scandinavian spin on a serial killer thriller. In The Postcard Killings, based on the James Patterson and Liza Marklund 1 New York Times bestselling novel, NY Detective Jacob Kanon’s (Jeffery Dean Morgan) world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. The screenplay is by Liza Marklund and Andrew Stern adapted from the novel of the same name written by James Patterson and Liza Marklund. The Postcard Killings is directed by Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic, director of many films including No Man's Land, Hell, Triage, Cirkus Columbia, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Tigers, and Death in Sarajevo previously. THE POSTCARD KILLINGS In Theaters, On Demand and Digital HD March 13, 2020Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen and Cush JumboDirected by Danis Tanovic. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe – each preceded by a postcard sent to a local journalist – Jacob is in a race against time to stop the killings and find justice for his little girl. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London get the answers he needs. In The Postcard Killings, based on the James Patterson and Liza Marklund bestselling novel, NY Detective Jacob Kanon's (Jeffery Dean Morgan) world is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays a NYC detective investigating the murders of his daughter and son-in-law in 'The Postcard Killings,' Danis Tanovic's thriller. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Danis Tanovic's The Postcard Killings, originally from Collider:
The Postcard Killings is available to watch, stream, download and buy on demand at Hulu, Apple TV. It has received mostly poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 5.8 and a MetaScore of 29.
This looks considerably better than expected, but also looks like most other serial killer mystery thrillers. The Postcard Killings is a 2020 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 44 minutes. Jeffery Dean Morgan stars in this along with Famke Janssen, Cush Jumbo, Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh, and Dennis O'Hare. His investigation leads him to discover a serial killer imitating art, and announcing his arrival in different cities with a postcard.
A New York City detective investigates the death of his daughter, who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate. "You've got exactly four days to prevent a murder." RLJE Films has unveiled an official trailer for a serial killer thriller titled The Postcard Killings, adapted from the bestselling book of the same name.