#The hit list filmweb movie

#The hit list filmweb movie

The police, I noticed, seem to be trying a little harder than some movie police. I like that this guy doesn’t want to become a killer, and avoids it for as long as he can. In most movies everybody picks up guns at this point. And Jonas makes things worse by forcing him at gunpoint to come along with him and do shit. He sports a cut under his eye from some guys he owes money to, so he’s down to earth.Īllan has to run around town – Spokane, Washington to be specific, a weird choice – trying to talk sense into Jonas and also to not be blamed by the cops who are on the trail of these murders and know that he’s connected. He’s a good balance of Hollywood leading man and regular guy, believable enough as an office worker who gets fucked over but also as the (currently blowing it) husband of a gal that looks like young Catherine Zeta Jones (Ginny Weirick). The author of the titular list is Allan, played by Cole Hauser (too bad he doesn’t go by Wings Hauser, Jr.), who I enjoyed playing a similar regular-guy-pushed-to-the edge-by-high-concept in PAPARAZZI. I didn’t want him to kill these people, but I kind of rooted for him to get away. He’s a little bit like Denzel in TRAINING DAY too, very good at browbeating and bullying while acting like he’s your buddy. As this hit man, Jonas, his eyes look tired and cold while his posture is confident, like he’s a killing machine who doesn’t give a shit anymore but can’t override the programming. He was good as a totally different hit man character in that nutso Lee Daniels freakout SHADOWBOXER, and he’s good in this one. I think I gotta reconsider my assumptions about Junior though. I heard they went to Jonathan Lipnicki first but he turned this role down. I guess it’s probly trying to look like MAN ON FIRE, but it makes me think of the cool grey suit Junior’s JERRY MAGUIRE co-star wore as a similar character in COLLATERAL. The only thing that slowed me down is that the assassin is played by Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. I’ve also had it recommended to me by a couple people.

I saw the trailer for this on some other DTV movie and I thought it looked potentially good. I mean yeah, he caught her cheating, but he doesn’t want his wife dead. So he has to put the kibosh on this thing, if not immediately then at least before the motherfucker gets to #1 on the list. And then of course, in the hung over haze of the next morning, he finds out that #5 on the list, the boss that passed him over for a promotion, has been assassinated. THE HIT LIST is a DTV suspense thriller with a great, almost Larry Cohen type premise: 2 drunk guys in a bar commiserate over their shitty days one claims to be a hitman, the other plays along and writes down on a napkin the five people he’d like dead.