Netflix’s best film in years Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman, Mike Markoff...
Netflix’s best film in years
Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao,
Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman, Mike Markoff
Rating: 4/5
Streaming on Netflix
Hit Man is a film with a pretty straightforward story: A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake contract killer sparks a chain reaction of trouble when he falls in love with one of the people he’s busting for a crime. Haven’t we seen that a lot of times? But still, Hit Man is weirdly refreshing; it has all the genre tropes but still feels new.
Hit Man is fun, sexy (at times), incredibly funny, and romantic,
and it balances all of these perfectly without ever focusing on one of these
more than the other. Linklater’s filmmaking is simply excellent: it's evident
that he’s still driven by a passion for cinema at this age, and it's evident
that it's all been mapped out in his head way before the film even began
production. His directorial choices are logical and seem meticulously planned
out. The screenplay by Linklater and Powell is nothing extraordinary but it
does its job. The camerawork too does its job perfectly.
The songs used don’t seem like something that would fit in a film
like this, but Linklater makes it fit into a film of this kind, with the
soundtrack being simply excellent. The performances are great all around, with
Glenn Powell as the highlight: he’s excellent as Gary. Adria Arjona is ok.
Hit Man is the kind of film you’ll put on for a good time (that it
promises and fulfills). The philosophical and psychological dialogues make you
think at times and are extremely well put. The film runs a little too long, and
about ten minutes of this could’ve been cut and nothing would’ve changed, but
that doesn’t make this any less fun.
Hit Man sees Netflix finally bringing quality content back to its
users.
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