Michael Keaton, after making his directorial debut with 2008’s The Merry Gentleman, steps behind the camera for only the second time with his latest film, Knox Goes Away in which he also deli…
, after making his directorial debut with 2008’sin which he also delivers one of his finest and most poignant performances as a man facing a rare form of fast moving dementia, but who is racing the clock to save his estranged son’s life before it is too late.
Film Festival, Keaton directs an exceptionally fine cast in a terrific noirish drama in which he plays John Knox, a professional contract killer who finds his skills diminishing rapidly including a hit job gone wrong in which his momentary confusion leads him to accidentally shooting and killing his partner Thomas Muncie and leaving behind three dead people and a bloody crime scene he tries to clean up.