Upon viewing, no one should remain under the impression this was supposed to be a serious assassin movie. Gee, I can't believe I even wrote that. And just in case you're wondering how this film stacks up to "King Kong Lives", I'd say it's about a toss-up. This one does to the assassin genre what 'KKL' does to big ape flicks.The biggest kick I got out of this was Elliott Gould doing his low key Jewish husband bit attempting to score a drink whenever he got the chance. There has to be a joke in there somewhere regarding his choice of rum and prune juice but it's escaping me right now. Oh yeah, come to think of it, I believe it's called a pile-driver.There's really nothing to take too seriously about this flick, so just sit back and enjoy the silliness if you can. Personally, I could have used more of Sab Shimono in the story, he's always good for that deadpan brand of comic relief. China Chow was an interesting actress portraying his daughter Keiko Nishi, though it would have been a bit more believable (like the rest was?) if she was a few years older. The only real question I have after watching this one was what the heck were Melvin Smiley's (Wahlberg) garbage bags made out of?

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.

Inane farce regarding a hit man whose girlfriend is in debt. He therefore decides to kidnap a Japanese young woman, not knowing that her millionaire father is really bankrupt, and that the kidnapped girl is the goddaughter of his crime boss.To add to this nonsense is the extra comic relief brought about by Elliot Gould and Lainie Kazan, as the girlfriend's Jewish parents. Kazan, a riot, is against marriage for the couple as the Wahlberg character is Catholic.Lou Diamond Philips is the heavy here. We have the usual explosive scenes along with periodic car chases.Fun, but quite silly.

The Big Hit is a nice fast paced black comedy where a whole lot of actors get to chew the scenery without getting in the way of each other's diets. Everyone looks like they're having a great old time in making this film.A team of four hit men who we first meet doing a job for boss Avery Brooks decide to do a little weekend moonlighting into kidnapping. They kidnap China Chow the daughter of Sab Shimono a Japanese industrialist who they don't know is going bankrupt. He couldn't come up with the payments on his own.What they don't know also is that she's the goddaughter of Brooks who is determined to find the kidnappers and eliminate them. Like Nixon's staff when Watergate got going, they all start bailing.The quartet's head, Lou Diamond Phillips does more than that. He turns on the others and names as the scheme's mastermind Mark Wahlberg. In the whole cast Phillips is absolutely relishing every minute of his role. He's stealing the film whenever he's on screen.Poor Wahlberg, he's the schnook of the bunch who apparently has only one talent in life, he can kill people with efficiency. Away from the trade everybody just intimidates him. He's got two girlfriends, one a Black American Princess, Lela Rochon who's bleeding him dry and a Jewish American Princess, Christina Applegate who's engaged to him, sort of. Even the obnoxious clerk at the video store is getting on his case.While Phillips is turning on the group, Wahlberg is having a meeting with Applegate and her parents, Lainie Kazan and Elliott Gould. Next to LDP, Kazan and Gould are the best thing in the film also playing their ethnic stereotypes with relish and ketchup on the side.Believe it or not, it all works out in one crazy way for poor Wahlberg, but you'll have to see and enjoy The Big Hit to find out how. The Big Hit assembles a cast of familiar players who all look like they're having a great old time, burlesquing their own images and feasting on a diet of scenery and ham. Cut yourself in for a slice.