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Dominican Rep. The Big Hit
- Original title
- The Big Hit
- Year
- 1998
- Running time
- 91 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Mark Wahlberg
Lou Diamond Phillips
Christina Applegate
Bokeem Woodbine
Antonio Sabato Jr.
Elliott Gould
Lela Rochon
Sab Shimono
Lainie Kazan
Avery Brooks- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Action. Comedy. Thriller | Crime. Kidnapping Film / Disappearance
- Synopsis
- Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fiancé Pam, but kills for money in Paris' organization. In addition, he has a relationship with a beauty from the neighbourhood and gets bothered by a pimply video store guy, because he did not return "King Kong Lives" for two weeks. 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 successless 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 in order to grind them up properly. 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.
- Critics' reviews
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"For masochists only"
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"The training and experience of Wong and his crew keep the film lively and vivid."
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"Mark 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'"
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"Manages the seemingly impossible task of being very funny indeed and being as dark as anything Wong has ever made"
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"This isn't a movie so much as a marketing strategy -- a moving poster loosely disguised as a motion picture."
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