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The Big Hit (1998)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:15
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Mel (Mark Wahlberg) is a neurotic, overworked hit man working for two crime bosses--Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Paris (Avery Brooks). He has a demanding fiance (Christina Applegate) with... Mel (Mark Wahlberg) is a neurotic, overworked hit man working for two crime bosses--Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Paris (Avery Brooks). He has a demanding fiance (Christina Applegate) with parents he's trying to impress and a gold-digging mistress (Lela Rochon) to occupy his scarce free time. Cisco proposes that stressed-out Mel kidnap Keiko (China Chow), the young daughter of Jiro Nishi, a wealthy Japanese industrialist. Mel captures her, but unfortunately Cisco is unaware that she is the goddaughter of Paris, who promptly puts a separate crew out to find and destroy Keiko's captors---and Paris is unaware that Mel is the man they are looking for. This unique and violent blend of action and comedy was executive produced by John Woo [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Antonio Sabato
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Antonio Sabato, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, Lainie Kazan, Elliott Gould, Sab Shimono, Lela Rochon
Director: Che-Kirk Wong
Director: Che-Kirk Wong
Screenwriter: Ben Ramsey
Producer: Wesley Snipes, Warren Zide
Composer: Graeme Revell
Reviews for The Big Hit
The script, by rookie writer Ben Ramsey, is among the most disgraceful screenplays ever to be produced by a major studio.
The Big Hit should be titled The Big Miss. That?s a really bad pun, but it?s better than anything in this movie.
If you often find yourself defending the types of movies offered by Jerry Bruckheimer and Joel Silver, here’s an affably dumb little action/comedy that should easily hold your attention.
Aside from everything else it does, The Big Hit proves that any subject matter can be funny, in the right hands.
Unfortunately, despite a promising premise, the film never manages to be much more than an adolescent exercise in caricatures, so inappropriately broad in its humor that it almost makes Airplane look like a documentary.
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