Excellent adaptation.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It opens with four or five guys silently having a game of poker in a big office. A revolver sits in the middle of the table. The guy with the lowest hand must pick up the pistol, spin the cylinder, cock the pistol, hold it against the back of his hand and pull the trigger, hoping the hammer falls on an empty chamber.In the same room, Philip Seymour Hoffman sits slyly behind a big desk, quietly threatening a whore who has tried to run away again and been caught.An Asian man with a bloodied face is shackled to the radiator. He has his ribs kicked in by a humiliated youth who has bragged about his Glock and its silencer. The Asian is brought into another room where he is told his testicles will be removed with a pair of pruning shears but he has his brains blown out before this horror can descend on him.Well, I like Stanley Tucci, Robbie Coltrane, and Philip Seymour Hoffman a lot. I think they're terribly underrated and underused. Well, not Hoffman, but his parts are limited because he looks semi-ordinary, not at all like Cary Grant.On the other hand, I've had about enough torture porn and imitations of Quentin Tarantino. I couldn't sit through more than a few minutes of it before I knew with some certainty what to expect. Sorry. I found it revolting.

This is most definitely an over-the-top film, starting off sick and getting progressively sicker and sucking you in during the process. the characters are well-defined and well-realized, especially Philip Seymour Hoffman's smarmy, reptilian Duncan, Robin Tunney's not-as-dumb-or-pathetic-as-she-appears Kitty and Sedgwick's hardboiled-on-the-outside Claire. Of course the film belongs to Stanley Tucci, the film's dying hitman. Another sublime, subtle performance from this extraordinarily talented actor; he actually manages to give this brutal excursion a heart.

Kyra Sedgewick (who? just kidding, Kyra) and Stanley Tucci team up in a more than adequate disorganized crime flick. Although this Bonnie and Clyde team are poignant enough, this one's more about two MVP hit men (hitpersons?) and competent gangland executions than complex character study. But me...I love the kiss-kiss/bang-bang formula and this one's a goody. It kept me on edge throughout this sordid tale of assorted nasty things, i.e.; gambling, greed, nepotism, homicide, loyalty and, finally, love revealed in a death rattling disclosure. I am a reluctant convert to the Stanley Tucci Fan Club but, after having seen his career's range, depth and script judgment over these past years, I'm attending regular chapter meetings and considering taking the secretary's position. This is a good film noir offering with lots of twists and plenty of hemorrhaging from gunshot wounds, fatal and otherwise. If you like this kind of stuff...(well, nobody admits liking gory, testosterone-driven cinematic carnage anymore)...uh..uh.. come to think of it, just in case my oldest daughter reads this, I didn't really like this film that much. It had too much gratuitous violence and too much gun play. Not!!! Two thumbs sideways...

When I rented "Nothing Personal" (that's what it's called in Australia) I half expected it to be a violent, unfunny version of "The Long Kiss Goodnight". But how I was wrong."Nothing Personal" was a funny movie in which the voilence wasn't overplayed and sometimes contributed to the humor. The Scene where the bald guy got shot through the wall reminded me of the scene in "The Big Lebowski" where Jeff Bridges puts the chair on the door to stop people coming in but the door opens the other way. Back to the point. The performances by Kyra Sedgwick, Robbie Coltrane and Robin Tunney, but the standout performance was Stanely Tucci in his role as Nick.While it won't recieve much attention, "Nothing Personal" was a well made light hearted movie that will do on a rainy day.