The Kill Point

2007
The Kill Point

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EP1 Who's Afraid of Mr. Wolf? (1) Jul 22, 2007

A group of ex-soldiers rob a bank but the heist goes wrong and they end up in the bank taking hostages. The situation in the bank makes a turn for the worse when police turns off electricity and Wolf threatens to kill a hostage.

EP2 Who's Afraid of Mr. Wolf? (2) Jul 22, 2007

The situation in the bank makes a turn for the worse when police turns off electricity and Wolf threatens to kill a hostage.

EP3 No Meringue Jul 29, 2007

The new FBI negotiator has no intention of giving into more demands, Wolf is trying to get a birthday cake for one of the hostages. The negotiations with the rich father of one of the hostages turn out bad and another hostage masked as HT gets shot.

EP4 Pro Patria Aug 05, 2007

Horst isn't sure he can trust Mr. Wolf after a hostage is shot. Alan Beck contacts Mr. Wolf as the getaway driver plans a different escape plot for the team.

EP5 Visiting Hours Aug 12, 2007

Horst and Mr. Wolf have some unexpected guests. As Horst interrogates one of Wolf's former partners, the hostages try to escape.

EP6 The Great Ape Escape Aug 19, 2007

Horst investigates one of Wolf's former comrades, and makes a surprising discovery; an extraction plan is set into motion.

EP7 The Devil's Zoo (1) Aug 26, 2007

Mr. Rabbit takes over the role of leader as Wolf struggles with his emotions. Mr.Rabbit's leadership scares everyone including Capt. Horst who starts to think of new ways to get everyone out safely.

EP8 The Devil's Zoo (2) Aug 26, 2007

Mr. Rabbit takes over the role of leader as Wolf struggles with his emotions. Mr.Rabbit's leadership scares everyone including Capt. Horst who starts to think of new ways to get everyone out safely.
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Released: 22 July 2007 Ended
Producted By: Mandeville Films
Country: United States of America
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A small group of military veterans sets out to rob a major bank in Pittsburgh. When things go awry, they're forced to take more than a dozen hostages from all walks of life, including a wealthy and powerful businessman's daughter.

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bob the moo A quiet working day in the centre of Pittsburgh is momentarily disrupted when a group of masked armed men walk into a bank and, with ruthless efficiency rob it and leave within minutes. However a passing cop, a security van and an FBI agent all come together at the wrong moment for the gang and the result is a gun battle in the street. Retreating back into the bank, the groups leader, Mr Wolf immediately sets up a hostage situation and prepares to defend the bank. Outside, Police negotiator Horst Cali learns that he is facing a group of Iraq veterans and political pressure starts to mount on him and his working style.This got a bit of a mention in The Times and Guardian and it made me decide to check it out. Although it was not brilliant, the show was short enough both in terms of running time of each episode (if you forward the adverts) and the overall season (eight episodes). To be honest the main thing that grabbed me about it was that it does seem to have been somewhat of an acting "busman's holiday" for a chunk of the cast of HBO's brilliant The Wire. Sadly the overriding thought in my head seeing so many of them together in one place was that it is genuinely unlikely any will ever have work that good again, but still it was nice to see them. On The Kill Point itself, the series throws the viewer right into the bank job and the first episode is pretty frantic. In the style of 24 it tries to keep this up and some episodes do really well on it, but it does have frequent and clunky dips in pace that frustrate.These aside, it must also be said that the whole series is not quite a great example of how to maintain pace and deliver within a thriller. The themes surrounding Iraq are held up like billboards rather than woven into the story and characters and likewise some emotional content is ham-fisted in delivery and just serves to suck dramatic tension out of the series rather than increasing it by adding depth. That said it still functions at a level that the majority will find distracting, if never really gripping. The direction gives proceedings tension but somehow never nails "urgency" in the way that I wanted.The cast back up the "solid but not special" feel that the whole thing has, with reasonable performances from reasonable actors. Leguizamo leads the cast well with the strongest performance and character, getting the conflict and urgency in his character. Wahlberg is nearly as good when given the material but his grammar pedantry is nonsense (his own dialogue is full of "less" instead of "fewer" and such) and it is a crass quirk that doesn't work. Davidson is satisfyingly unhinged and works well with Grillo's incredibly buff (and I say this as a straight guy) and charming performance. The Wire's Fitzpatrick and JD Williams are both good but don't have much to do – the latter in particular quite hard to watch as he doesn't have a lot to get his teeth into in the way he did in The Wire. Although really this could be said of all of them but not in the same way. Hyatt has more time on screen than in The Wire (where she was Avon's sister) but she is not that good with it and she cannot get her character to work. Conversely Michael Williams seems to be unable to escape the wonderful character of Omar, although fan that I am, this is not a bad thing really. He has dialogue that could have been given to Omar (with a bit of tightening) but for the majority of the series he appears to be in his own show, totally detached in terms of plot and material from the rest of the goings-on! Enough "The Wire" chat though, I am conscious that I am already a bore on the subject, but the connection does add a novelty value to this show that it probably doesn't deserve. On its own terms, The Kill Point doesn't totally work but it has enough trash appeal to just about make it worth seeing if you want a couple of months of disposable distraction. It is far from being Dog Day Afternoon (although it has a touch of that), it lacks the urgency and pace of 24 (when it is good) and the writing lets it sag far too often for its own good but for the undemanding viewer it might just do the job.
tomberlin55 The Idea is great: War Veterans try to rob a bank and the think turns into a hostage situation. But after two or three interesting shows it turned dull. The bad starts with the hostages taking over the soldiers (5 civilian succeed in stealing trained soldiers there guns!!!) and then none of tehme has the guts to shoot! The second stupid scene is when the bad guys flee the bank into a subway tunnel, the police is in the tunnel within seconds, but they don't storm the (then empty) bank to check for the hostages, but leave the retreat free for the criminals! At the end the Sergeant wants to shoot himself, but gets executed by the negotiator, who actually wanted to save lives, stupid... What a waste of time it was to watch the show...
milesgrayman At first i thought it was another crappy show on Spike TV. But i found out it was better than that it could become the new prison break. It keeps me filled with suspense with Donnie Wahlburg and John Leguzamo it became a good hit. With supporting actors like JD Williams, Tobin Bell, and dutch others this could easily could be Spike TV's best show they ever made. The kill point also could make a good miniseries if they cant make a season 2 but there will be a very good storyline like in prison break with the running chasing and the corrupt officials they could begin the series in a bank robbery and end it in a bank robbery. Also i feel so sorry for Wolf Because he gets arrested or shot i think he got shot.
hpaigeh10 This show is awesome! It's unpredictable & it's exciting. The performances are awesome as well. There is a great dialoge with a great story. It is about a group of soldiers that fought in Iraq & want their pension. They also want some respect for all their hard work and fighting (That's true. Some some respect to our soldiers!). John Leguizamo plays the main "villain" in the show, Jake Mendes aka Mr. Wolf. Mr. Wolf is not really bad guy. He is doing a terrible thing, but you see that he does regret about some of his decisions. A real villain would not do that. Donnie Wahlberg plays the police negoitater, Horst Cali. He is just as tough as Mr. Wolf & is determined that no one dies while he is in command. I can't wait to see how it all comes down.