The Big Hit
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
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- Mark Wahlberg , Lou Diamond Phillips , Christina Applegate , China Chow , Avery Brooks , Antonio Sabàto, Jr. , Bokeem Woodbine
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Captivating movie !
Admirable film.
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
The Big Hit (1998): Dir: Kirk Wong / Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, China Chow, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks: Action packed geek show demonstrating objects distorted from idiocy. Mark Wahlberg plays a hit-man who hates his job. "Remember all those people you killed?" Lou diamond Phillips presses on. "They have relatives that probably don't like you." Plot regards the accidental kidnapping of the goddaughter of their boss. She remains at Wahlberg's home where she cooks dinner for his fiancée and parents. Then a gunfight at the dinner table will end at Big Top Video. Pointless and stupid big budget trash directed half-heartedly by Kirk Wong. Wahlberg should have wings for all the dashing about he does. He is unsympathetic regardless of his feelings toward his job. His friendship with Lou Diamond Phillips is confusing where they are best buds one moment and then blasting away at each other behind a rack of the latest new releases the next. China Chow is the victim who is cooking one minute then escaping the next. Finally she awaits her knight as Big Top Video comes crumbling down. Christina Applegate is wasted as his fiancée and deserves better material than what this junk offers. Avery Brooks is flat as the mob boss who has the personality of a flat tire. Extremely dumb film should be called The Big Miss. Score: 1 / 10
The Big Hit can only be approached as a tongue in cheek, comedy action film, albeit the immoral kind. Well just checkout the way a well meaning chauffeur is brutally gunned down.Mark Wahlberg is a kick ass bad guy who just cannot bear to upset people (except those he kills.) It does mean he is taken advantage of by friends, lovers and fellow hoodlums and also means his acting can be a bit blank.Wahlberg's character is skilled at what he does, you see early on shooting people while he is break dancing or machine gunning while driving in reverse.Things get rough when the gang kidnaps a daughter of a Japanese businessman and their boss (Avery Brooks) happens to be her Godfather. Lou Diamond Phillips the leader of this motley crew double crosses them in order to save his neck and fingers Wahlberg for the kidnap.The result is a lot of comic book violence and black humour. Diamond, Bokeem Woodbine and Wahlberg get the tongue in cheek spirit of the film by filmmakers from Hong Kong, which means the trademark balletic violence much in vogue in the late 1990s.The film can get a little too silly, its unpretentious, entertaining. Simply a popcorn flick, but also unmemorable once the film is over.
Inane farce regarding a hit man whose girlfriend is in debt. He therefore decides to kidnap a Japanese young woman, not knowing that her millionaire father is really bankrupt, and that the kidnapped girl is the goddaughter of his crime boss.To add to this nonsense is the extra comic relief brought about by Elliot Gould and Lainie Kazan, as the girlfriend's Jewish parents. Kazan, a riot, is against marriage for the couple as the Wahlberg character is Catholic.Lou Diamond Philips is the heavy here. We have the usual explosive scenes along with periodic car chases.Fun, but quite silly.
I'd absolutely recommend this movie if it wasn't for the incredible amount of profanity and vulgarity it contains. If that doesn't bother you in the least, then this movie might get 10 stars.I'm used to it, so I found it really, really funny. I mean, side-splitting funny. It was the campy, silly sort of funny, not intellectual. So if you like "smart comedy" this won't be what you are after. If you like The Simpsons sort of silliness and can suspend your disbelief (like, if you're an A-Team fan) then this will probably be exactly the right kind of show for you.Each character in the show was spot on. Lou Diamond Phillips played his role perfectly. He was charming and despicable at the same time. Not far behind him was Mark Wahlberg, making an unbelievable combination (hitman with a heart of gold?) actually work.This could easily have been a wasted script if the actors didn't have the right chemistry.If you're an average Joe, you won't mind the crude language and adult humor a problem and will really like this comedy.A cult classic in the making.
