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Releasing on May 24, 2024
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 55 m
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 55 m
Summary Inspired by an unbelievable true story, a strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities.
Directed By: Richard Linklater
Written By: Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 55 m
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 55 m
Hit Man
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Summary Inspired by an unbelievable true story, a strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities.
Directed By: Richard Linklater
Written By: Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
82
100% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Linklater’s gentle touch is his secret weapon, and Hit Man might be a masterpiece.
With a tour de force performance by Glen Powell and a sharp script, Hit Man delivers the kind of intense romance sorely lacking in sexless Hollywood movies. It’s a fascinating character study that, though directed by Richard Linklater, gives off the vibes of a chaotic, dark crime comedy from the Coen brothers. Come for Powell's ascendance to superstardom, stay for one of the funniest and most entertaining movies of the year.
A peak-performance engine running wholly on charisma, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man revives and revitalizes a genre in awfully short supply.
Linklater’s Hit Man is an Aperol Spritz with enough fizz and prosecco to cover the taste of the strychnine. This could be one of the brightest dark comedies of recent times.
Richard Linklater’s latest is a jaunty action comedy that spins its machine-tooled high concept like a bicycle wheel – sometimes with shrewd intent, sometimes for pure fun.
Hit Man is determined to be fun above all else, and it largely succeeds in that honorable, populist mission. It entertains, and generously pushes two game performers closer toward the movie-star pantheon.
Powell and Arjona have fizzy chemistry with each other, which isn’t much of a shock for two people who could probably get a spark going with a paper bag during a rainstorm, but it’s fun to watch both of their characters throw themselves into their new lives.
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Production Company
AGC Studios,
Aggregate Films,
Barnstorm Productions,
Cinetic Media,
Detour Filmproduction,
Detour Pictures,
Monarch Media,
Netflix,
ShivHans Pictures
Release Date May 24, 2024
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
Tagline He's not a killer, but he can pretend.
Awards
New Mexico Film Critics
• 1 Nomination
