In present-day Belgrade, Serbia, former Scorpions soldier Emil Kovač (Travolta), who survived the shootings, meets his informant to retrieve a file on American military veteran and former NATO operative Colonel Benjamin Ford (De Niro).

Kovač quietly returns to Serbia, happily stating “I am healing” when the injuries to his face are pointed out, while Ford visits his son, to make up for missing his grandson's baptism.

The locations in Rabun County were chosen by director Mark Steven Johnson to create the effect and mood he had previously seen in the film Deliverance.

[21] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News awarded the film one out of five stars, panning Travolta's character's Serbian accent.

"[23] Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com called it "Badly written, ineptly staged, horribly acted, historically suspect and boring beyond belief".

[24] Variety's Alissa Simon wrote: "The sight of Robert De Niro and John Travolta sharing the screen for the first time reps the one and only selling point of Killing Season.