To me, this movie is perfection.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Blistering performances.

It makes you wonder how on earth they gathered the cast for this. I suppose the big budget meant they got paid well, so perhaps the question is, how the hell did they get the money? The script is terrible. The ideas are non too subtle rehashes of other films, too obvious to mention, yet the humor simply isn't there. Even Robin Williams can't save it, nor himself, as he really doesn't have enough to work with. Ribisi is quite good and what ever happened to Alison Lohman? She's not great in this but she's quite likable.There are a couple of semi-decent sight gags, such as the eye popping corpse but its all rather juvenile. Holly Hunter turns in the only decent performance but eventually she becomes annoying as well. Harrelson is completely wasted. Literally.There's a reason most people haven't heard of this film. It's an embarrassment for all involved.

Robin Williams is an Alaskan travel agent, Paul Barnell, who is trying to bank on his brother's life insurance policy but he's not dead just away. When he stumbles upon a dead body, he uses the corpse to bank upon his brother's insurance policy only his brother Raymond (played by Woody Harrelson shows up) and his wife played by Holly Hunter gets kidnapped by the men who are looking for the corpse. Giovanni Ribisi plays the insurance agent who is unwilling to break his suspicions about Barnell's claim and refuses to pay it. As the film begins, he catches an insurance fraud on tape. His live in girlfriend plays a phone psychic in small town Alaska. Granted, Alaska is known for it's cold harsh winters. I visited Skagway, Alaska a year after they filmed this movie. Skagway is a popular cruise day spot for most of the major cruise ships in the Inside Passage. Too bad, the snow didn't do it justice. Skagway is also one of the gold miner's town. Still, the film is more a reminder of Fargo.

I never was a big fan of Robin Williams films, so I had doubts about watching this one. I was surprised how interesting and sometimes funny this movie was. Though it's a comedy, I liked it not only for humor, it's a very interesting movie, though many things were predictable, it was still somehow interesting to watch. Robin Williams was great, this movie have change my opinion of him. Holly Hunter did great too and I think her performance in this film was much better that in The Piano, though many others probably will disagree with me, but many actresses could handle that role, not many actresses could play a mentally ill woman so well as she did.

Reading through some of the other comments, a common train of thought seems to be "where did this come from?". I would class myself as a regular film go-er, and pride myself with my knowledge of up and coming films. Yet, I had never even heard of this fantastic movie! It was a chance encounter in HMV that lead me to this.And, it is fantastic! Tim Blake Nelson and Earl Brown steal the show in my mind...if only every Hit-man were so inept! And, it was nice to see Robin Williams step back slightly, and tone his character down. Excellent choice! You really, really, really should watch this film, and see what so many others missed out on!