“The Killer” (** out of four) was a pretty dull noirish melodrama about a professional assassin (Michael Fassbender) who is battling to stay alive when faced with a conflict with various employers which challenges his own code of ethics and survival skills. With David Fincher at the helm, you know you’re going to get style but you don’t get much else in the muddled and pretentious proceedings. Long stretches of silence and slow-motion don’t add anything and film has hardly any story. Extremely similar to previous hitman-stories “The American” and “A Prayer For The Dying”.