This Canadian movie is a pretty standard early 90's thriller. It's truthfully pretty pedestrian in most ways but it does benefit from the presence of genre legend Michael Ironside and respected character actor M. Emmet Walsh; both of whom play a pair of brothers, whose bad actions get the film's plot underway. The story is essentially about a professional killer who seeks incriminating photographs which are in the possession of a man whose brother he murdered. This leads to all manner of unreasonable behaviour being carried out by out pony-tailed psychopath.This is not a particularly well written film. It is not, for instance, especially clear why the pivotal murder even happens in the first place. And characters continue to act in illogical ways throughout the story. In fairness, it's not the first thriller to succumb to this, so it's hardly a deal breaker. It is a bit lethargic though and really only comes to life when either Ironside or Walsh are on the screen. So, not an awful lot to recommend here but at the same time it does get the job done, it just does it with the minimum effort.

CAUTION: Plot spoilers present.Freelance photographer Max Oliver is mourning the death of his brother Ric, who was also in the photo business. Soon Max finds his life invaded by a mysterious figure who is searching for some negatives that implicate the local senator John Kane engaged in an illicit tryst with a prostitute. As the psychopath – revealed to be Kane's psycho brother Luther – frames him for murder in an attempt to force him to hand over some negatives, Max finds a roll of film in his late brother's motorbike & upon processing it discovers that the negatives not only implicate John Kane for his affair but Luther for secretly killing the hooker & dumping her body into a dam.Killer Image was a cheap Canadian B-thriller made in the early 1990s under the tutelage of producer Pierre David's Image Organization production group. The film stars Michael Ironside as a psychopathic killer whose attempts to procure some incriminating evidence of his involvement in some murders comes unstuck when he messes with the brother of one of his victims.As far as cheap thrillers go, Killer Image is something of a disappointment. The opening scene works well enough although could have needed some exposition in order to let viewers understand what is going on. Afterwards, the film gets stuck with second-rate (& not particularly convincing) thriller mechanics. It is never made clear why Ironside's character murdered the hooker since the senator was planning to marry her & why he is trying to frame the photographer for the murders.On the acting front, the actors give decent performances. Michael Ironside is at his best as the sharp-suited killer although he finds himself unstuck by the poor writing & poor characterisation of his character. M. Emmet Walsh gives the film what little dignity is deserves as the senator brother.

Bad, lame, boring, pointless, useless…none of those words even begin to describe this story of brothers who both happen to be photographers and get caught up in a political scandal and a convoluted tangle of murder and deception.All I can say about Killer Image is this - If you'd like to see M. Emmet Walsh with his shirt off, this is your kind of movie. If you'd like to see Michael Ironside with one of those little, douchebag ponytails, this is your kind of movie. For everyone else, if you see Killer Image sitting on the shelf in your local video store, do not pick it up. Just back slowly away and get something else, even if the only other thing in the store is a Pauly Shore-Angela Landsbury sex tape.

Why is it that Canadian-made movies are so wooden?The script of this movie has potential but it just doesn't work. I think it may be the editing. There is no pacing. The scenes just move along without any buildup of tension.The movie includes two experienced actors, Michael Ironside and M. Emmet Walsh, with Ironside taking the lead as the anti hero.Nothing really happens to make the movie interesting. The hero, John Pyer- Ferguson is unimpressive; the dialogue is boring and the plot is predictable and moves like molasses. Even the color was washed out.I started to watch this movie on the late show and got so bored that I ended up surfing the Internet at the same time and felt that I missed nothing.