A VERY SURPRISING GEM AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MOVIE, THE FEMALE ACTRESS REALLY LOOKED LIKE A LOSER... MAYBE ... BECAUSE SHE WAS A LOSER! SHE HAD A DEAD-END JOB, HER ONLY FAMILY MEMBER WAS DYING, ETC. SHE, HERSELF FELT THAT SHE WAS A MAJOR LOSER. SO MUCH IN FACT THAT SHE TRIED TO KILL HERSELF. BUT A TWIST OF FATE TURNS THIS "LOSER", INTO A POLISHED PROFESSIONAL AND PRETTY "WINNER". I AM NOT TELLING YOU HOW THIS HAPPENS BUT THE WAY THIS TRANSFORMATION IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPENED IS WELL-THOUGHT OUT AND BELIEVABLE. FOLKS, IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUYING THIS MOVIE, LET ME TELL YOU THAT YOU WILL NOT BE DESAPOINTED. IT IS VERY ENTERTAINING, WELL ACTED, AND OVERALL A WONDEFUL MOVIE. ENJOY!
This is below Kyles acting levels This was so disappointing. When I see Chandler acting I usually enjoy him but in this movie, he is very disappointing and I find that this is a turkey movie or as they used to be called. I hope to see him in some good movies. The acting is so bad and for Jim Belushi, all the actors are very disappointing to watch. I expect great things from both of these actors and I did not get that with this movie.
Karate? I started watching this movie by accident. I was sitting with two friends when we watched the scene with the bowling pins and the handgun. My friend fell out of his chair and I could not speak for several minutes. We had never seen the violence of a repressed bowler rendered in such elegant detail. After this, the movie transitions from scene to scene with an almost Zen-like abandon. Violence melts into lovemaking; libraries turn into war zones. Best of all, Belushi inhabits his character like a genie in a lamp. Somehow he finds a way to make the audience feel as though he is always just about to break into a flurry of karate moves. I'm not going to tell you if he ever unleashes his karate, but I will say that he was born to play this role.
Dance of the hit-persons The fascinating interaction of a master hit-gentleman and an unsuccessful apprentice hit-man and a self-taught very talented hit-lady. Well worth viewng more than once!
For Kyle Chandler fans only Being a fan of this film I was highly anticipating getting the DVD release. Unfortunately, for a purist DVD fan like myself, the quality was disappointing. On a scale of one to ten with ten being superb, the picture quality of this DVD was an eight if not a seven.This is a good movie, but I would wait until this is reissued on DVD with a better transfer (and the film is only two years old!!).
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