Purely Joyful Movie!

A Brilliant Conflict

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I started watching this movie about 10 minutes into it, and I had to see it to the end. Lovely story, great acting, with some truly original scenes. Jason may seem a bit helpless, but that's just clever acting/directing.I'm happy to see that I'm not alone in appreciating this movie. The only thing i can fault this movie for, is casting a teen idol in a grownup movie. But that doesn't diminish the movie in itself. (In that respect it's similar to "17 again", which I also enjoyed a lot.)The fact that I saw it on TV just now (2010) goes to show that this movie has staying power. Brilliant stuff.

This is one of those films that i catch by accident on TV while eating a dinner, and that immediately raise my eyebrows, set up a big question-mark above my head, make me forget about how good dinner i cooked, and instead make me immediately look up the title on IMDb while first set of commercials is on.First i see a face from sugary Beverly Hills in a _very_ different role, and he seems to be a hit-man (i didn't see the beginning of the movie), but he goes to yoga classes, and he seems to be at once simple and honest (and a virgin), and a successful professional killer, and the movie seems to somehow balance the opposites quite skillfully. Really, i can still feel my eyebrows up there where they were for the most of the movie.I laughed hard in few places, but like with best films, those funniest scenes had absolutely nothing obviously funny in them... it's the absurdness of the characters and their situations that makes those so funny.Still, i didn't feel this to be a comedy at all, it's here that saw people call it a dark comedy.Well, it's dark alright, and strangely uncomfortable, but i did laugh hard in some scenes so i guess it qualifies as comedy too.Anyway, if you like quirky off-the-beaten-path films, this is one you won't regret seeing.

"Beverly Hills 90210" star hunk Jason Priestley gives a startlingly able and engaging performance as Cosmo, a quiet, passive, thoroughly nebbishy and unassuming recluse who works as a bookie for a mob syndicate. When new capo Gordon (a perfectly pernicious Robert Loggia) becomes gang leader after the previous crime boss croaks, Cosmo gets promoted to hit-man. Under the sage, expert tutelage of laid-back, but weary, boozy and guilt-wracked rub-out artist par excellence Steve (a terrifically low-key portrayal by the always ingratiating Peter Riegert), Cosmo proves to be an amazingly quick study and soon surpasses his wise older mentor when it comes to casually bumping off folks for major league dollars. Things become dicey when Cosmo befriends and immediately falls in love with nice gal yoga instructor Jasmine (a winningly perky turn by the eminently adorable Kimberly Williams), who's understandably less than thrilled with Cosmo's deadly profession.Writer/director Wallace Wolodarsky deftly accomplishes the tricky task of blending a gently whimsical romantic comedy with a savagely twisted droll black farce, skillfully creating and maintaining a deliciously dry and deadpan out-of-whack sensibility that's often uproariously screwy, constantly engrossing and occasionally even quite jarringly grotesque. The mixture of brutal violence and playful quirkiness works remarkably well because of Wolodarsky's commendably firm control of a marvelously unpredictable anything-can-happen oddball tone: the characters are a splendidly colorful bunch of delightfully kooky, likable and somehow strangely plausible eccentrics, the story never slips into a straight-down-the-line conventional trajectory, and the assorted unexpected plot complications keep the viewer totally off-guard throughout. Additional kudos are in order for the uniformly on-the-money cast: Priestley, Williams, Loggia and especially Riegert are all outstanding, with spot-on supporting work by the ever-charming Jeneane Garofalo as a sweet-hearted hooker and Michael J. Fox as a weaselly accountant. Idiosyncratic and original, "Coldblooded" qualifies as one of the most undeservedly neglected and unheralded off-center indie sleepers from the 90's.

I stumbled upon this during a free Showtime or HBO weekend.. I'm truly not sure which. First scene I saw had Janeane Garofalo, which will almost always drag me into a movie. Almost turned it off when I saw Jason Priestley on the screen, but he makes it work.A dark tale about a bookie being "promoted" to hit man, only to find he has Rain-Man-like capabilities in this regard.Quirky, dark, interesting, a bit sad at points... Jason Priestley is perfect as Cosmo, and I'm glad I now own the movie. Every time I show it to someone we enjoy ourselves, and it creates opportunity for discussion later.