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Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I was shocked to see the rating for this movie, because I often cite it as the worst movie I have seen. There are some that might say I am taking it too seriously. Nonsense. I love satire. The script is horrible. It is not funny, it is not cute, it is not charming, it is just a waste of time.

Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) is a professional hit-man. His other girlfriend Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate) lends all his money $50k to her father. So he decides to join his hit-man co-workers Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), and Gump (Robin Dunne) on a kidnapping scheme. The problem is the father of their kidnap victim Keiko Nishi (China Chow) just lost all his money on a movie vanity project.The HK action isn't really up to scratch. The wirework, the style, and the effects are all slightly below the expected level. It feels inferior. The bigger problem is that the sarcastic brand of humor isn't that funny. These guys are annoyingly stupid and mean-spirited, but not in a funny way. Wahlberg and Phillips are not great comedians, and they can't pull it off. The script needs better comedians than these muscleheads can provide.

A little less than two years ago I became a fan of Mark Wahlberg as an actor. That affection for him as an asset has only grown. He's darned good. It's not that he played a foul-mouthed cop so well in "The Departed," nor that he was good as Charlie Croker in the remake of "The Italian Job." It wasn't 'Boogie Nights" or "Traveller," as I have not seen either of those films. It wasn't his role in "The Perfect Storm" that won me over, either, although that is a smashing good movie.It was the way he held his own in "Three Kings" with George Clooney, that first impressed me, and then in the revenge-drama "Four Brothers," I came to realize that this fellow has an absolute talent for playing the damaged hero. His acting in that ensemble made the ensemble click. It was pure and driven hatred being expressed by an adopted son for the ( unknown ) killers of his adoptive mother. It was done simply and most brilliantly, without crowding out the other three actors ....True, seven years elapsed between the champion with the broken heart, that we meet in "Four Brothers", and the cartoon comedy role -- as Smiley -- that he played in "The Big Hit." Maybe he was expected to carry everything himself in this abysmal crime comedy, which isn't really funny at all. Or, just maybe, Laine Kazan and Elliot Gould had more funny lines than were actually included in the film, or whatever -- but it ain't funny."The Big Hit" is a big, mangy, slobbering, smelly and disgusting cur.It represents everything that is wrong with movie-making in the U.S. and therefore Hollywood, and in a real sense it does have one strong and valuable element in it. "The Big Hit" demonstrates exactly how the process of "the degenerate" overtaking "the sublime" in Hollywood has been in motion since the moment this film was given the Green Light.Whoever took the decision to finance this incredible drivel, deserves to be horse-whipped in a public square. It offends every sensibility of any person with any humanity left intact. It isn't funny and it isn't a cautionary tale wrapped in a fantastic farce, and it isn't anything worth seeing once, much less twice. However, I was suckered into renting it because I do so admire Wahlberg from "Three Kings" and "Four Brothers." I don't know who Ben Ramsey is ( or whether he really wrote all the insidious and villainously bad dialog in "The Big Hit" ), but it seems clear that he didn't get another screenplay sold for four years because he was credited with spawning this devil dog. I do know how hard it is for good writers to "pop up" in Hollywood, but if he deserves the blame for this toxic 'comedy,' he too should face a public whipping, a dunking or stoning or being force-fed overcooked hot dogs. With no honey mustard.A vote of one only because negative numbers are not allowed.

I love this movie. Its funny, tense and action packed. Sure its over the top, most action movies are. And some of the dialog is silly, as most movies are. And there are tons of only in the movies moments... cause it is a movie after all. No, its a great movie...there is only one thing that really bothers me about this movie...its the sexual innuendo during the cooking scene. Are we to be turned on by the fact that they're stuffing a chicken? Its an obvious reference to a hand job. Its not sexy...just...GROSS. The other thing the movie has going for it is its comedy. Elliot Gould steals his scenes. And now that this movie is on Blu-Ray, it looks so much better. I'm in love with it all over again.