Mindlessly good fun, the usual fare for a low-budget hit man drama.
While I often find flashbacks and bounce-arounds to be rather annoying and often confusing, this is not the case for this film. I found the "back-and-forth" clearly done and it built the story in a way not often done effectively in television and movies.
I have a very liberal "suspension of disbelief" mindset and one area of the film prevented me from pushing this to a 7 because the challenge for my SOD was too much to overcome.
Without spoiling anything, there is a scene that involves his "partner's" husband. I would consider it a turning-point scene.
HOWEVER... for a guy who has been so meticulous, careful, and able to keep the authorities at bay for the entirety of his career, the circumstances that take place in that scene should absolutely have tipped him off that something was amiss. Even a crappy hit man would have been able to put two-and-two together and even for good, mindless film fun... was hard to get around for me.
Of course, had he been able to figure it out, the film probably wouldn't have been able to move much further, but that doesn't change the implausibility I found for a hit man of his caliber (pun intended). And no, I wasn't looking for an Oscar effort here, but when you challenge my SOD so severely, sometimes it just doesn't work out.
Despite my complaint on that *specific* issue - if you're looking to just get lost in a reasonably interesting story, this gets a recommendation from me.
While I often find flashbacks and bounce-arounds to be rather annoying and often confusing, this is not the case for this film. I found the "back-and-forth" clearly done and it built the story in a way not often done effectively in television and movies.
I have a very liberal "suspension of disbelief" mindset and one area of the film prevented me from pushing this to a 7 because the challenge for my SOD was too much to overcome.
Without spoiling anything, there is a scene that involves his "partner's" husband. I would consider it a turning-point scene.
HOWEVER... for a guy who has been so meticulous, careful, and able to keep the authorities at bay for the entirety of his career, the circumstances that take place in that scene should absolutely have tipped him off that something was amiss. Even a crappy hit man would have been able to put two-and-two together and even for good, mindless film fun... was hard to get around for me.
Of course, had he been able to figure it out, the film probably wouldn't have been able to move much further, but that doesn't change the implausibility I found for a hit man of his caliber (pun intended). And no, I wasn't looking for an Oscar effort here, but when you challenge my SOD so severely, sometimes it just doesn't work out.
Despite my complaint on that *specific* issue - if you're looking to just get lost in a reasonably interesting story, this gets a recommendation from me.