One of my all time favorites.

Just what I expected

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Martin Blank (Cusak) goes home for his 10 year high school reunion. Tracks down his high school flame (Driver) and tries to win her heart once again. The catch is, he's a hired hit man working his last job before hanging it all up. I know right, didn't see that one coming. Wonderful comedic scenes mashed throughout with witty dialog. Nice supporting cast that add an element of entertainment I wasn't expecting. You won't be disappointed.

I love this film the dark comedy and choice of soundtrack is amazing and the cast work so well together . It works on many levels and I have to say it's amazing. John cusaac is a great actor. His ability to portray a dark souls and yet keep aspect of him redeemable and funny. Dan ackroyd is comedic genius and has a good touch of phycopathic lunacy. Joan cusaac has a great ability to to go hot and cold in a blink of an eye is perfection as the put upon assistant. Minnie driver displays a range not seen in her earlier rolls and to be honest not seen since. The whole film set around a hit man reaching a midlife crisis of sorts and having the ability to go back home. Choices made and a future of new found respect for life is fun. The action sequences are completely believable and no gratuitous unrealistic expectations of gun play and hand to hand fighting. The pen really is mightier than the sword.

The pun in the movie title says it all: Grosse Pointe Blank is a brat movie, a movie students could have written (and shot for a portion of the budget) as a joke and a tribute to their teenage years.Basically the dumb thing that cries "mediocre student joke" here is the discrepancy between reality and fantasy. If you're seriously about to make the best movie possible, you have to choose: to spoof or not to spoof. Spoof comedy is OK as long as everything is a joke and that it runs at Mach 3.9; conversely a serious hit-man drama/thriller is OK as long as you stay the course.Spoof is already aiming at the lowest hurdle, but when you just spoof up an otherwise "straight" drama/thriller/romcom... (you name it) that is just blatantly incompetent. Cusack's fans and lenient teenage souls amongst IMDb reviewers rank this movie high yet the average reviewer is bound to be bored by the tone skids, the "funky violence" shootings that bury the attempt to tell a clever story about an isolated hit-man and a rush of nostalgia. Those shootings were gross and plundered a storyline which already verged to much on the spoofy side (cf. Blank's contracts before leaving for Grosse Pointe).

Professional assassin John Cusack (as Martin "Marty" Blank) carries out a killing while he receives an invitation to attend his ten-year high school reunion, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Since he kills people for a living, Mr. Cusack's first instinct is to skip the reunion. He changes his mind when offered the chance to assassinate someone in nearby Detroit. Back home, Cusack is shocked to discover his family home has been turned into a convenience store. He tells classmates he's become a hit-man, which they take as a joke. Most importantly, Cusack reconnects with old girlfriend Minnie Driver (as Debi Newberry). She's a disc jockey, and still single...Don't worry, it's not exclusively a love story. Cusack is joined in Grosse Pointe by a trio of angry assassins, led by rotund rival Dan Aykroyd (as Grocer). It's nicely directed by George Armitage. He makes the actors in his action scenes look fun and comic, which keeps the film on track. Even ex-1960s "Dark Shadows" vampire hunter Mitchell Ryan becomes a softy; in the movies, he's usually a hardened criminal. And veteran Alan Arkin (as Oatman) is an excellent therapist. The writers capture the 1990s and the music evokes the 1980s. The decades are effectively recalled and, here, they seems to relate to each other and the "Class of 1986" very well.******** Grosse Pointe Blank (1997-04-11) George Armitage ~ John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin