‘Knox Goes Away’ Review: Michael Keaton Directs Himself Into One Of His Most Memorable Performances As A Contract Killer With Dementia – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comMichael 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 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.
World Premiering tonight at the Toronto 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 (an excellent Ray McKinnon) and leaving behind three dead people and a bloody crime scene he tries to clean up.
A medical diagnosis of a rare condition that causes a form of fast moving dementia leads the doctor (Paul Perri) to suggest he get his affairs in order for a life that could be ending in a matter of weeks, not months.
A family crisis rears its head though when his estranged son Miles Knox (James Marsden in a highly dramatic turn) kills a man in a fit of rage after confronting him about a suspected rape of his 16 year old daughter.
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