The big hit
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The big hit |
| Original title | The big hit |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kirk Wong |
| script | Ben Ramsey |
| production |
Wesley Snipes , Warren Zide |
| music | Graeme Revell |
| camera | Danny Nowak |
| cut |
Robin Russell , Pietro Scalia |
| occupation | |
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The Big Hit is a 1998 American action comedy directed by Kirk Wong and written by Ben Ramsey . The main roles were played by Mark Wahlberg and Lou Diamond Phillips .
action
Melvin Smiley is a hit man who hides his work from two friends Chantel and Pam Shulman. Pam Shulman is completely focused on her work; her parents are xenophobic and resent Smiley for not being Jewish. Smiley goes out of his way to accommodate all of Chantel's wishes, although some of them are costly. He is convinced that his boss in the criminal organization, Paris, pays him badly, and is otherwise quite indulgent: his own comrades let him do the dirty work and then get all the praise.
The team around Smiley - which also includes Gump, Crunch and their leader - kidnaps the underage Keiko Nishi on their own, because Keiko's father Jiro Nishi is an entrepreneur active in the electronics industry. It is only after the kidnapping that it turns out that Nishi is broke. It also reveals that Paris is Keiko's godfather - which complicated matters when he hired Cisco and his team to save Keiko.
Smiley hides the girl on his property and spends some time with her. Keiko tries to escape; As he tries not to let her escape and at the same time not to let his family know about the matter, Melvin and Keiko slowly fall in love. Cisco kills Gump and accuses Smiley of kidnapping in front of his boss. The Paris killers rudely interrupt a meal where Melvin meets Shulman and her family, and just before the disturbance, Pam breaks up with Melvin.
Persistently pursued by Cisco, Melvin and Keiko flee, Melvin meeting Chantel one last time and settling accounts with her. A showdown takes place in Melvin's video store, in which Smiley kills Cisco in self-defense. An explosion destroys the building, which leads the pursuers to assume that Smiley is dead. In fact, Smiley survives the explosion. He later reunites with Keiko and the two leave town to start a new life elsewhere.
Reviews
- Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film looked like a Hong Kong action comedy. The dialogues would correspond to this subgenre. There are many action scenes. The cars would explode, they would be shot and driven into the trees. Ebert wrote that he suspected that one could laugh at the film, but that one would feel alienated.
- Peter Stack wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the film was "stupid" ( inane ) but was good fun. However, after seeing it, it would not be remembered for more than “20 minutes”.
- The lexicon of international films saw a "grotesquely exaggerated action comedy" whose irony had become an end in itself.
backgrounds
The filming took place from July 1997 to September 1997 in Canada . Production costs amounted to about 13 million US dollars , the film played in the cinemas of the United States dollar 27,050,000 a.
Web links
- The Big Hit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Big Hit at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Big Hit at Metacritic (English)
- Comparison of the FSK 16 and FSK 18 versions of The Big Hit at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Roger Ebert: film review. In: Chicago Sun-Times , April 24, 1998
- ^ Peter Stack: Film Review
- ↑ The Big Hit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .