A Nice Pencil Thin How can you not like a movie with a pencil-thin mustache exchange right before David Anthony Higgins is killed? Not even close to being a 90210 fan, but Priestley totally won me over with his nonchalant callousness. Please, studio exec, read this and put it on dvd.
HITMAN HUMOR Hilarious......dark comedy filled with irony. Has an independant film feel - great acting - great cast. Get it !!!
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Again, this needs DVD release I just purchase this because my "other copy" got misplaced by someone...yeah right. They just wanted a copy of their own.
The thing is, there is very little else to be said as other people have given the plot and told exactly what makes this so good. Definitely R rated, definitely has moments of incredible dark humor. If you can watch a guy beg for his life while somone (who is trying to kill the guy) is trying to learn how to use a gun, then this is the movie for you. Scenes in this movie, if described to you without seeing it, would be VERY hard to demonstrate the humor in them. Note above about a guy begging for his life...you'd never see the humor in it, unless you saw the movie.
This is a low budget feature however the writing is wonderful. Look for a small role by Michael J. Fox that is also done very well with one of the most shocking events you'll see in film connected with his character.
A must see if you like dark comedy, hitman, or other type films. If you loved the video game "Hitman 47" (any of them) then I'm almost positive you'd love this movie.
hilarious black comedy--criminally under-appreciated I went to see this at the Seattle International Film Festival in 1995. I went because the synopsis sounded interesting. Plus the guy who had written and directed it was connected with the Simpsons, surely a major plus when it comes to comedy. The audience was filled with teenage girls, obviously drawn by the name of Jason Priestly on the marquee. It made the subsequent viewing of the film THAT much funnier (well, at least to me) to sit there and wonder what these girls were thinking as the film progressed and Priestly started killing folks with such wonderful deadpan indifference.This movie is SCREAMINGLY funny. Peter Reigert is top-flight comedy gold in every scene he has as the burned-out veteran hit-man. The real revelation is how funny Jason Priestly can be when given a chance. His character here is almost like Peter Sellers from BEING THERE; he is so impassive and deadpan, yet the film revolves around his performance and it must be good for a film like this to work; well, Priestly delivers. His character is goofy and sweet and yet somehow chilling too in his casual attitude to murder. Why this film has languished in total obscurity is a mystery. When i saw the film, most of the audience didn't know what to think; the teenage girlies were rather shocked;they didn't find it amusing to see their 90210 heartthrob pistol-whipping people before icing them, but I did. When the film ended, the director, Wallace Wolodarsky, was just sitting there, alone.He had introduced the film briefly beforehand and said he'd be happy to field questions when it was over. I approached him (since no one else was going to) and I think I frightened him a bit with my exuberance; I had a shaved head at the time and i looked a bit weird and I said, too loudly, "That movie was brilliant! It was hilarious!" He said,"Thank you," and slowly backed away from me. I thought, "well, you can't win them all." And I left him in the theater filled with people who didn't understand his movie.
A Cold Blooded Dark Comedy THIS MOVIE DESERVES TO BE ON DVD! I am waiting for the DVD to buy it.
How could you not love the Dark Humor in this movie that is delivered in an innocent and simple dead pan is brilliant. Jason Priestly wowed me in this role as Cosmo. This was in heavy rotation on cable a few years ago when I saw it the first time. I cannot wait to see it again.
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