The Big Hit

1998 "Nothing's more dangerous than some nice guys... with a little time to kill."
6.1| 1h31m| R| en| More Info
Released: 24 April 1998 Released
Producted By: Amen Ra Films
Country: United States of America
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Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.

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Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
SnoopyStyle Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) is a professional hit-man. His other girlfriend Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate) lends all his money $50k to her father. So he decides to join his hit-man co-workers Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), and Gump (Robin Dunne) on a kidnapping scheme. The problem is the father of their kidnap victim Keiko Nishi (China Chow) just lost all his money on a movie vanity project.The HK action isn't really up to scratch. The wirework, the style, and the effects are all slightly below the expected level. It feels inferior. The bigger problem is that the sarcastic brand of humor isn't that funny. These guys are annoyingly stupid and mean-spirited, but not in a funny way. Wahlberg and Phillips are not great comedians, and they can't pull it off. The script needs better comedians than these muscleheads can provide.
omarh92 I am shocked IMDb gave this a 5.1, this movie deserves MUCH higher and here is why, first of the action was quite brilliant, the gun slinging was great! The here and there comedy moments add ons they shot in the movie ended up being great laughter, in fact VERY good laugh, the acting is great no doubt, everyone played a nice role in a great story too, Mark Walberg and Lou Diamond Phillips were most certainly the best off course, great decision to put those 2 in the same movie and work together they make a great team, this movie deserves an 8 and not a 5, so give it a chance and shot, you will love this forsure, This is Mark Walberg at his best.
cu_ee The Big Hit is perfect for people with a certain sense of humor. If the idea of Marky Mark doing break-dancing moves to avoid being shot during a gun battle sounds cool or makes you laugh, you will love the rest of the movie. If it sounds lame, you're better off not watching.The movie is silly, clever, witty, and absurd, and yet it's not just a lighthearted romp: it has enough plot that even after watching it a dozen times there's never a dull moment.It's a shame there are so many people who don't "get" the movie and give it bad reviews. Its sense of humor reminds me a lot of Arrested Development--as does its frosty reception.
bkoganbing 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.