Good start, but then it gets ruined

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

To start with, I wish IMDB would start having a policy of blocking paid shills. The ones giving this dreck glowing incredible reviews all write the same way. If this was supposed to be satire or comedy or something like that it failed miserably. The writing is perhaps the worst. I keep wondering how movies are sold strictly on who is going to be in it. The dialogue is mundane and predictable. The so called "action" is predictable and even if it is supposed to be kind of a black comedy it falls flat. And the resulting romance between kidnapper and kidnappee is just so boring and lame and predictable. The dinner and chase sequence and the rest...The ending is the same as EVERY SINGLE OTHER with the good guy hitman and his victim falling in love and running off together. NOTHING about this was funny or serious or anything. IT is just a BLAH movie. So happy I didn't pay anything to see itI would bet the farm the writers actually DID use a phone to send in the script.

I was shocked to see the rating for this movie, because I often cite it as the worst movie I have seen. There are some that might say I am taking it too seriously. Nonsense. I love satire. The script is horrible. It is not funny, it is not cute, it is not charming, it is just a waste of time.

The Big Hit can only be approached as a tongue in cheek, comedy action film, albeit the immoral kind. Well just checkout the way a well meaning chauffeur is brutally gunned down.Mark Wahlberg is a kick ass bad guy who just cannot bear to upset people (except those he kills.) It does mean he is taken advantage of by friends, lovers and fellow hoodlums and also means his acting can be a bit blank.Wahlberg's character is skilled at what he does, you see early on shooting people while he is break dancing or machine gunning while driving in reverse.Things get rough when the gang kidnaps a daughter of a Japanese businessman and their boss (Avery Brooks) happens to be her Godfather. Lou Diamond Phillips the leader of this motley crew double crosses them in order to save his neck and fingers Wahlberg for the kidnap.The result is a lot of comic book violence and black humour. Diamond, Bokeem Woodbine and Wahlberg get the tongue in cheek spirit of the film by filmmakers from Hong Kong, which means the trademark balletic violence much in vogue in the late 1990s.The film can get a little too silly, its unpretentious, entertaining. Simply a popcorn flick, but also unmemorable once the film is over.

for the story itself. for the precise mixture between action and humor. and for the characters portraits. a kind of tutti - frutti. clever, indecent, violent, romantic, image of a good script and smart direction. and that is the important thing in its case - the manner to not resume all story at a genre/formula. the great atmosphere and the use of an error for define a world out of ordinary recipes. a film for fun and for action fans. and a meritorious performance for each actor - Mark Wahlberg is the perfect example -. a film who reminds old film noir and, in same time - the language is key - is part of every day popular culture. correct stories , parts from large puzzle. an interesting film. first - for inspired solutions who defines it more than another movie with guns and bad boys.