The Big Hit
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings
- Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Mark Wahlberg
- Summary: A nice-guy hit man (Whalberg) agrees to take on a kidnapping scheme.
- Director: Kirk Wong
- Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
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Positive: 7 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 10 out of 20
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75Score it big-time inane but a load of fun.
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50Mark Wahlberg could lose some of the good will he generated from his performance in "Boogie Nights" by playing an idiotically gentle killer for hire in The Big Hit. [24 April 1998, p. 53]
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That rarest of all genre hybrids, the screwball-romantic-action-situation-black comedy. Rare for good reason. Who'd want to see a thing like that?
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30The television commercials for the movie say something about this being the same team that brought you “Face/Off,” which is about as relevant to this picture as noting that Paul Thomas Anderson got Wahlberg to drop his pants in “Boogie Nights.”
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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10Great comedy/action movie, killer soundtrack, and great acting in the good parts of the movie.
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