The Big Hit (1998)

The Big Hit: Directed by Kirk Wong. With Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks. Socially anxious hitman Melvin Smiley, an expert in his lucrative field, goes on a job and falls in love with his kidnapping victim, turning his world upside down.

“The Big Hit is a nice fast paced black comedy where a whole lot of actors get to chew the scenery without getting in the way of each otheru0026#39;s diets. Everyone looks like theyu0026#39;re having a great old time in making this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA team of four hit men who we first meet doing a job for boss Avery Brooks decide to do a little weekend moonlighting into kidnapping. They kidnap China Chow the daughter of Sab Shimono a Japanese industrialist who they donu0026#39;t know is going bankrupt. He couldnu0026#39;t come up with the payments on his own.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat they donu0026#39;t know also is that sheu0026#39;s the goddaughter of Brooks who is determined to find the kidnappers and eliminate them. Like Nixonu0026#39;s staff when Watergate got going, they all start bailing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe quartetu0026#39;s head, Lou Diamond Phillips does more than that. He turns on the others and names as the schemeu0026#39;s mastermind Mark Wahlberg. In the whole cast Phillips is absolutely relishing every minute of his role. Heu0026#39;s stealing the film whenever heu0026#39;s on screen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePoor Wahlberg, heu0026#39;s the schnook of the bunch who apparently has only one talent in life, he can kill people with efficiency. Away from the trade everybody just intimidates him. Heu0026#39;s got two girlfriends, one a Black American Princess, Lela Rochon whou0026#39;s bleeding him dry and a Jewish American Princess, Christina Applegate whou0026#39;s engaged to him, sort of. Even the obnoxious clerk at the video store is getting on his case.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile Phillips is turning on the group, Wahlberg is having a meeting with Applegate and her parents, Lainie Kazan and Elliott Gould. Next to LDP, Kazan and Gould are the best thing in the film also playing their ethnic stereotypes with relish and ketchup on the side.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBelieve it or not, it all works out in one crazy way for poor Wahlberg, but youu0026#39;ll have to see and enjoy The Big Hit to find out how. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Big Hit assembles a cast of familiar players who all look like theyu0026#39;re having a great old time, burlesquing their own images and feasting on a diet of scenery and ham. Cut yourself in for a slice.”