Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Python Hyena
The Big Hit (1998): Dir: Kirk Wong / Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, China Chow, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks: Action packed geek show demonstrating objects distorted from idiocy. Mark Wahlberg plays a hit-man who hates his job. "Remember all those people you killed?" Lou diamond Phillips presses on. "They have relatives that probably don't like you." Plot regards the accidental kidnapping of the goddaughter of their boss. She remains at Wahlberg's home where she cooks dinner for his fiancée and parents. Then a gunfight at the dinner table will end at Big Top Video. Pointless and stupid big budget trash directed half-heartedly by Kirk Wong. Wahlberg should have wings for all the dashing about he does. He is unsympathetic regardless of his feelings toward his job. His friendship with Lou Diamond Phillips is confusing where they are best buds one moment and then blasting away at each other behind a rack of the latest new releases the next. China Chow is the victim who is cooking one minute then escaping the next. Finally she awaits her knight as Big Top Video comes crumbling down. Christina Applegate is wasted as his fiancée and deserves better material than what this junk offers. Avery Brooks is flat as the mob boss who has the personality of a flat tire. Extremely dumb film should be called The Big Miss. Score: 1 / 10
Johan Dondokambey
I watched this movie a few times on a local TV and still I don't change the channel if this movie is airing. It's quite a good entertainment, despite it's stupidity in the concept development.The basic premise is an average and common, no doubt about that. One that's about a small crew within the mafia and kidnapping. The stupidity and quirkiness begins when the story develops into one with the coincidences of the kidnapping target is the god-daughter of the boss of the crew, and that the Japanese Yakuza boss has a close tie with the black American mafia boss. All those are added with the ingredient of Melvin Smiley's wrecked up romance with two girls, a Jewish and a black girl. The twist of having the mastermind of the kidnapping betraying the rest of the crew is a nice touch.But the strongest attraction of this movie is the comedy, both in the dialog and in the mayhem caused by all the action. It is indeed a good entertainment for me. And since the local TV doesn't re-air it very often, it is still a good option to watch.
jessegehrig
At first I was offended by how crap The Big Hit is, a hyper-macho action/comedy completely ridiculous. Then, I let the movie continue to play and changed my mind all together, I became very sad. Such sorrow for everyone involved with this farcical miserable affair, with each passing scene my pity for these wretched creatures swelled. Who would ever want to force actors to say so many cringe-worthy lines? What sort of sociopath would want to film a movie like this? God! watching this movie its like a f*cking parade of burn-unit patients trying to walk along unaided unassisted they are in obvious agony and no one helps them no one tries to stop them, the patients from the burn-unit ward just keep marching along and the band plays on.
FlashCallahan
Melvin Smiley, a successful young hit-man, is living a normal life.He and his three teammates Cisco, Crunch and Vince one day decide to kidnap the daughter of super-rich businessman Jiro Nishi - off the record.What they do not know, is that Jiro just went completely bankrupt due to a flop movie production, and even worse, that his daughter Keiko is the god-daughter of Paris, the boss of the kidnappers.He and his men are now searching for the kidnappers.Meanwhile, handcuffed Keiko falls in love with killer Melvin while both preparing a kosher meal in order to satisfy Pam's visiting parents, who are out of the house with Pam - with a body in the trunk....The first twenty minutes of this film are amazing, a pure adrenalin rush of action, something that seasoned action monikers would be proud of.And then we go to the story, and meet some of the most unlikeable characters on screen ever, and the whole film goes down here. It's not the casts fault. Wahlberg is good, and this was probably one of the last films he made before striking A-list, it's just his Melvin is such a walk over, and is hard to like.I can see what the film is trying to be, it's trying to be some coll, hip Tarantino-esque quotable movie, and it fails big time.The worse culprit is Phillips, who is just begging to be killed from the word go. I have never endured a character so unlikable, that you actually want to skip his scenes.With some sub-plots surrounding video tapes and money, The Big Hit is best watched like this.Sit and watch the first ten minutes.Leave the film on and do something like house work, so you can still hear it.As soon as Elliott Gould vomits, sit and watch the remainder.A perfect half an hour action fest with limited dialogue.
