Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fiancé Pam, but kills for money in Paris' organization. In addition, he has a relationship with a beauty from the neighbourhood and gets bothered by a pimply video store guy, because he did not return "King Kong Lives" for two weeks. He and his three teammates Cisco, Crunch and Vince one day decide to kidnap the daughter of super-rich businessman Jiro Nishi - off the record. What they do not know, is that Jiro just went completely bankrupt due to a successless movie production, and, even worse, that his daughter Keiko is the god-daughter of Paris, the boss of the kidnappers. He and his men are now searching for the kidnappers in order to grind them up properly. Meanwhile, handcuffed Keiko falls in love with killer Melvin while both preparing a kosher meal in order to satisfy Pam's visiting parents, who are out of the house with Pam - with a body in the trunk. To payoff his second girlfriend's debt, hitman Melvin Smiley undertakes a kidnapping job with his usual associates. In a world of prospective Jewish in-laws and late movie fees, the hitman falls in love with the victim and must settle the score with those out to double-cross him. Reviews of this movie that say it has lapses in logic at points have some truth to them, but this movie shouldn't be judged on a CITIZEN KANE level. It should be taken for what it is: a HK action movie that happened to be filmed in Toronto (if memory serves). Everything is there: the nutty subplots, the gratuitous destruction of property, the wild overacting. If you watch it with this in mind, you're going to enjoy it immensely. Well, la, la, la…………<br/><br/>I'm sitting here thinking of why The Big Hit is such a Big No-No, when on the face of it, the set up (Grosse Point Blank lite) and bits of the script seem fairly promising.<br/><br/>Well, for a start, Mark Walberg ain't no John C - but Three Kings showed that he is, with the right direction and supporting cast - better than this.<br/><br/>So - maybe it comes down to the fact that good comedy requires a lightness of touch and subtlety that the Director and most of the supporting cast just don't have?<br/><br/>None of the banter that is done so well is a movie like - shall we say Ocean's 11 - flows the way it should. It's wooden. The timing is all out. If I was going for something pretentious (and, sod it, this is IMDb after all so why not) I'd say that there is no negative space for the humour to sort itself out. But that would be meaningless, wouldn't it, and fairly unhelpful.<br/><br/>So, I simply feel it my duty to report to you, dear reader, that there is no compelling reason ever to watch this movie. I strongly suggest that you watch GPB again instead and compliment yourself that you might have been spending your time viewing something very, very much worse. A high-concept, low-reward hodgepodge that mingles elaborate stunts and shootouts with stereotypical ethnic humor.
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