Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Expected more

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Mindlessly good fun, the usual fare for a low-budget hit man drama.While I often find flashbacks and bounce-arounds to be rather annoying and often confusing, this is not the case for this film. I found the "back-and-forth" clearly done and it built the story in a way not often done effectively in television and movies.I have a very liberal "suspension of disbelief" mindset and one area of the film prevented me from pushing this to a 7 because the challenge for my SOD was too much to overcome.Without spoiling anything, there is a scene that involves his "partner's" husband. I would consider it a turning-point scene.HOWEVER... for a guy who has been so meticulous, careful, and able to keep the authorities at bay for the entirety of his career, the circumstances that take place in that scene should absolutely have tipped him off that something was amiss. Even a crappy hit man would have been able to put two-and-two together and even for good, mindless film fun... was hard to get around for me.Of course, had he been able to figure it out, the film probably wouldn't have been able to move much further, but that doesn't change the implausibility I found for a hit man of his caliber (pun intended). And no, I wasn't looking for an Oscar effort here, but when you challenge my SOD so severely, sometimes it just doesn't work out.Despite my complaint on that *specific* issue - if you're looking to just get lost in a reasonably interesting story, this gets a recommendation from me.

Bennie Harper (Melora Walters): You sure are a tough guy. Arthur Banks(Kiefer Sutherland): What are you talking about? Bennie Harper: You talk like a tough guy, you walk like a tough guy, you even order drinks like a tough guy... Arthur Banks: I'm not a tough guy - I'm just careful! Bennie Harper: Careful of what? Arthur Banks: Of pretty women...Well, he wasn't careful enough, but I can't say any more that that without giving it away. Suffice it to say that this was a very interesting story about hit-man Banks, and a girl he picked up (Harper) to help him complete a job. The two acted like an old married couple as they haggles, and argues, and generally got on each others nerves until the job was done.In the meantime, they are being chased by the FBI in the persons of Rachel Ticotin (Con Air, Total Recall) and Jamey Sheridan ("Law & Order: Criminal Intent").But the film belonged to Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnoloa) and her gorgeous breasts, and to Sutherland ("24").

of baseball rules, i.e. three strikes and you're out. Strike one: Pre-credit sequence shows a 007 wannabe checking into a south-of-the-border resort. Suitcase opens and a complete snipers kit is assembled. A long shot shows a large outdoor party very distant in the frame. And then. And then. Cut to the credits. Yes, a hit man thriller that doesn't hook you with a depicted killing! Strike two: 00-1/4 is about to kill a young woman (it's his usual M.O.) He kills vulnerable women who he trains just for a particular hit. But instead of just shooting her, at let's say, 5 feet, he allows the poor thing to sprint into the distance and then, un-holstering his Magnum .41 or .45, he takes aim and gets a clean hit at about 2 to 3 hundred feet. What a shot! He suffers no hearing loss, by the way, holding this huge caliber revolver next to his ear. Then, when he approaches the body, shovel in hand, we find this super professional hit man has done the dirty deed, 100 feet or so, parallelling the major southwest highway he's driven on to get to the place! Absolutely no concern for any other vehicle that might pass by in broad daylight.) (Hmmm. Seems like we're up to strike four.) Strike three: Wanting sex after killing someone he finds an isolated truck stop and takes a comely waitress to his motel room, something he's been doing with this babe for 12 years, and without any foreplay (think lubrication here folks. And unprotected sex, of course.) they attack each other sexually like they are horny teenagers about to schtupp for the first time. Yup. Strike three, four, five and enough, enough and more than enough. A tired, tiring and tiresome movie, all strikes described happening within ten minutes or so.

This movie was really sweet because of Kiefer. The part in the trailer is really cool; he is asked if he is a psycho-killer and he flips around real quick. You should watch that a bunch of times first. Then watch the movie.The movie ends too quick but the ending is what you want if you like Kiefer.