Review of The Hit

The Hit (1984)
6/10
Empty Feeling at the End
18 September 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Although this film starts out well, it did have an empty feeling at the end. The premise is an English gangster who squealed on his mates and gets asylum in Spain. Eventually these gangsters get others to track him down. These others kidnap him and want to take him to Paris where the original gangsters will even the score with him. So it turns into a road movie as they trek across Spain. They also abduct a beautiful senorita on the way (I was never quite clear why they did this – but it was good eye candy).

So the plot is reasonably clear and there is some character interaction. But somehow it's all a little artificial and none of the characters are very likable. There is very little humour in this movie. I felt like I had an empty deck of cards at the films' conclusion.

Plus why were the victims driven across Spain to be killed – why wasn't it just done right away – and whatever happened to going to Paris?
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