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Information
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 91 min.
- Director
- Kirk Wong
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 22,703
- Checks
- 937
- Favs
- 26
- Dislikes
- 36
- Favs/checks
- 2.8% (1:36)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
There's a lot of wishful thinking behind a title like The Big Hit. Mark Wahlberg plays a milquetoast member of a professional hit squad (led by Avery Brooks, which raises a couple of eyebrows when other characters are called Cisco - sic - Smiley, and Keiko) who gets caught up in a kidnapping when everything goes wrong. There always seems to be something wrong when a Hong Kong director is 'ported over to the United States, and in this case, Crime Story's Kirk Wong bookends his movie with high-octane, interestingly shot and choreographed action which are completely at odds with the sitcom humor of the middle part, which looks like slick, bright, pop-tuned faux-McG. Tellingly, the editor never seems to know how to get out of those moments properly to get back to the Fiasco-level crime plot. More a comedy with a couple of crazy (and long) action scenes than the opposite, the balance is more than a bit off. A lot of the comedy falls flat as a result, but I will admit the various shticks do eventually pay off and I came out of the final sequences having had a fun time. 3 years 6 months ago -
