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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
More aptly titled The Big Miss, this grade-Z action parody looks like a second-rate John Woo cast-off ... and feels like something out of Lloyd Kaufman's Big Bag o' Troma Rejects.
In its non-A-list way, The Big Hit is the most successful attempt yet to transfer the Hong Kong action movie to Hollywood.
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.
The characters in these movies exist in a Twilight Zone where thousands of rounds of ammunition are fired, but no one ever gets shot unless the plot requires him to. The bullets have read the screenplay.
Aside from everything else it does, The Big Hit proves that any subject matter can be funny, in the right hands.
A ripe, noisy action flick, loaded with block-clearing explosions and testosterone-charged showdowns.
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.
The script, by rookie writer Ben Ramsey, is among the most disgraceful screenplays ever to be produced by a major studio.
Delivers the frat-boy goods but its coarseness and vulgarity limit its appeal to relatively undemanding audiences.
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