CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

eric262003 "Killshot" stars Mickey Rourke as Native American mobster named Armand "Blackbird" Degas who's agenda is to murder anyone who knows or seeks his facial identity. He angers off the "Toronto Mob" by killing one of his cohort's girlfriend because she saw his homely visage. He goes into seclusion and forms an alliance with an irritable small fry crook Richie Nix (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). To get some extra cash, they take their act to a real estate office for protection money. A married couple who's not on good terms right now Wayne and Carmen Colson (Thomas Jane and Diane Lane) have seen Blackbird's ugly mug and now he has to kill them. But as I would expect, the idiot misses which leads our victims to enter a Witness Protection Program which is just as well since they have to act like they're happily married without a worry in the world. Blackbird has determination though. He goes far as to fake his death so when the couple returns home, he can make another attempt to shoot them, only to miss again. D'Oh! Fortunately, the couple have better shooting range than the Native guy.Okay, I'm confused here, why is this movie titled "Killshot"? The better title would have been "Bumble Shot". Because every time Blackbird and Nix have the opportunity to kill the couple, they just miss their marks. In fact Wayne himself seems more of a lethal guy than the bad guys here even at point he successfully manages to throw Nix from a window and onto a gazebo. Too bad this thriller seems more focused on a Lifetime TV atmosphere as Wayne tries to repair his marriage with Carmen. When you think about it, are we supposed to believe that this unskilled couple were able to overthrow this mobster and his dumb sidekick which the FBI and the "Toronto Mob" weren't able to accomplish? It might be possible to upstage the "Toronto Mob". Though they do exist, but the Mafia in Canada are far less nefarious than their American counterpart. I am a huge fan of Mickey Rourke whether even with his poor career choices, but here, he's up there in one of his poorest performances as a Caucasian guy acting like a Native American. I'll go far as to say it's even worst than when George C. Scott played one in "Firestarter". I'll cut him some slack because he looks like an evil Steven Seagal. I like the performers Jane and Lane, but I think they have potential to be starring in better films than this garbage. They were just badly wasted in thankless roles here. Thanks to the mundane script by Hossein Amini, the Colson's are just one-dimensional caricatures.The main gripe I have here is that after three years sitting on shelf collecting dust before is that this movie went direct to video is that the film was in the wrongful hands of director John Madden. No not the legendary football coach, but the guy who at one time directed the epic classical period-piece "Shakespeare in Love". I'm sure that there were other directors capable to direct a gripping crime novel by Elmore Leonard. All I know this film was a quite a fumble.

mgulev Mickey Rourke plays Canadian Indian Armand, who is a hit-man. He loses both his brothers in the movies opening scene, where they're supposed to kill a patient in a hospital. Years later, Armand gets a little too trigger-happy and the mob boss wants him dead. Through a series of more or less likely events, Armand teams up with Joseph Gordon Levitts character, because he reminds him of his youngest brother. This only gets him into more trouble and soon they have to kill more people to cover their tracks, namely Wayne (Thomas Jane) and Carmen (Diane Lane), who are going through a rough marriage.Apparently the book works well. Despite good acting all around, the movie just isn't very interesting and doesn't work well. If you don't watch the movie you're not missing anything.

Rodrigo Amaro A unusual partnership between a experienced killer (Mickey Rourke) and a psychotic robber (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) on their mission to track down a couple (Diane Lane and Thomas Jane) who ruined their robbery at a real estate agency is the premise of "Killshot", an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's book. Tension and some action is built in the plot where the main attractive thing is the killer team and many thrilling moments."Killshot" doesn't offer anything new except making of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character a dangerous and bigmouth one, the main surprise in the film, since he doesn't play this kind of guy very often. Along with the great Mickey Rourke, they are responsible for the best sequences of the film. The most absurd and bizarre aspect of "Killshot" is present two villains that most of the audiences will relate with, opposite of a unsympathetic couple as the good guys in the story which is hard to care for. Since there's almost zero percent of originality (excpet in one short moment with Hal Holbrook, a very good scene) and it's not much of a smart action film it goes for 9 stars. It's entertainment value flies high. John Madden, of "Shakespeare in Love" fame, directs great action sequences (the robbery in the real estate agency being the most interesting) but delivers less than we could possibly expect from a film of this size.

Sam Morrison (skullballmovies) Killshot started off to me like it was going to be a gritty action/thriller movie. Then it got into drama. Then into thriller. Then into action. It was all over the place, but only losing interest in a couple of parts. One of my favorite parts, sadly, were the opening credits. The music was great, they introduced each character nicely, and the animations were cool. The cast was great, and I was surprised to see Tom Jane in such a subtle role. Mickey Rourke was the center of attention for me, and him not being one of my favorite actors means that he did a great job in his role. It had a satisfactory ending and overall, it made me feel satisfied that I watched it. It's worth a rent or a see at a friend's house.