So here's the fluke part. I tried to see a 1993 Bryan Brown film with this same title and thought I'd found it on a streaming site (rhymes with boobie). IMDb sent me there; the box art was for that one. But when it began, Bryan was unrecognizable. Good reason. It was an unknown (to me) star and cast in a different, completely unrelated deployment of the title. I decided to go with the mistake and wound up glad that I did.
Absolutely nothing special about any of the leads, or the premise. Hit man balks at fulfilling a contract to make a teenage girl as dead as a Monty Python parrot, putting them both on the run from the thug what wanted her whacked and the legion of minions he could dispatch to do the dispatching. And what a colorful lot they be! It's the oddball array of hitters who make this work as a shoestring-budget dark comedy, enhanced by a couple of truly clever twists in an otherwise boilerplate script. Expect a touch of Leon the Professional with a faint whiff of Smokin' Aces on Quaaludes.
Sometimes it pays to roll the cinematic dice.
Absolutely nothing special about any of the leads, or the premise. Hit man balks at fulfilling a contract to make a teenage girl as dead as a Monty Python parrot, putting them both on the run from the thug what wanted her whacked and the legion of minions he could dispatch to do the dispatching. And what a colorful lot they be! It's the oddball array of hitters who make this work as a shoestring-budget dark comedy, enhanced by a couple of truly clever twists in an otherwise boilerplate script. Expect a touch of Leon the Professional with a faint whiff of Smokin' Aces on Quaaludes.
Sometimes it pays to roll the cinematic dice.
