The Big Hit **1/2 (out of 5) (1998)

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks

Directed by Kirk Wong

 

A crew of hitmen make the fatal blunder of kidnapping a young Chinese daughter of a waelthy businessman for ransom. One major problem: the girl is their boss' goddaughter and he wants whoever stole her to suffer greatly. Meanwhile, one of the hitmen suffers through difficulties in his love life due to the fact that he wants everyone to love him.

This mix of comedy and action handles both adequately, but the weak script and a disappointing ensemble of actors keeps this film from making the jump into a successful vehicle. There are some nice stunt pieces and some funny moments, but they are mostly drowned in the director's effort to make this film hip and subsequently losing all focus on what should be front and center, i.e. the plot. Entertaining and watchable, but still less than good due to the messy plot structure amd overall noise.

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