the audience applauded

Fantastic!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

for the story itself. for the precise mixture between action and humor. and for the characters portraits. a kind of tutti - frutti. clever, indecent, violent, romantic, image of a good script and smart direction. and that is the important thing in its case - the manner to not resume all story at a genre/formula. the great atmosphere and the use of an error for define a world out of ordinary recipes. a film for fun and for action fans. and a meritorious performance for each actor - Mark Wahlberg is the perfect example -. a film who reminds old film noir and, in same time - the language is key - is part of every day popular culture. correct stories , parts from large puzzle. an interesting film. first - for inspired solutions who defines it more than another movie with guns and bad boys.

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.

Melvin Smiley, a successful young hit-man, is living a normal life.He and his three teammates Cisco, Crunch and Vince one day decide to kidnap the daughter of super-rich businessman Jiro Nishi - off the record.What they do not know, is that Jiro just went completely bankrupt due to a flop movie production, and even worse, that his daughter Keiko is the god-daughter of Paris, the boss of the kidnappers.He and his men are now searching for the kidnappers.Meanwhile, handcuffed Keiko falls in love with killer Melvin while both preparing a kosher meal in order to satisfy Pam's visiting parents, who are out of the house with Pam - with a body in the trunk....The first twenty minutes of this film are amazing, a pure adrenalin rush of action, something that seasoned action monikers would be proud of.And then we go to the story, and meet some of the most unlikeable characters on screen ever, and the whole film goes down here. It's not the casts fault. Wahlberg is good, and this was probably one of the last films he made before striking A-list, it's just his Melvin is such a walk over, and is hard to like.I can see what the film is trying to be, it's trying to be some coll, hip Tarantino-esque quotable movie, and it fails big time.The worse culprit is Phillips, who is just begging to be killed from the word go. I have never endured a character so unlikable, that you actually want to skip his scenes.With some sub-plots surrounding video tapes and money, The Big Hit is best watched like this.Sit and watch the first ten minutes.Leave the film on and do something like house work, so you can still hear it.As soon as Elliott Gould vomits, sit and watch the remainder.A perfect half an hour action fest with limited dialogue.

When approaching this movie you must take a light hearted look at it. The Big Hit is not meant to be a serious movie and if taken as such then you probably won't enjoy it. Fortunately I read a few reviews of the movie before seeing it and I knew what to expect, so I am thus warning others. It is a great movie if you don't take it seriously, otherwise it sucks.The Big Hit is what I would term as a comic book movie. The title is drawn in a comic book style, the characters dress brightly and the scenes stand out. Bright colours are used in many parts of the movie making it stand out. The Big Hit is not a dark serious movie, it is light hearted and is incredibly funny if taken as such.The movie is about a hit man (Mark Whalberg) who is basically a nice person. He has two girlfriends who take advantage of him constantly. He is easily led and his partners are constantly worming him out of money. Then one of them decides to do a little job of his own and kidnaps the daughter of a failed filmmaker. As it turns out, the filmmaker is the friend of their boss (Robert Avery) and the nice hit-man is accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.I quite enjoyed the Big Hit. It has a satirical look at action movies, and then it is simply a good laugh with lots of action, and it is far from being slow.