The Big Hit (1998)

• Year: 1998
• Released: 24 Apr 1998
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120609/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Big_Hit
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-big-hit
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
• Runtime: 91 min
• Writer: Ben Ramsey
• Director: Kirk Wong
• Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate
• Keywords: dark comedy, video store, suitcase full of money, night vision goggles, bungee-jump,

	6.0/10
	31/100

The Big Hit Storyline

Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fiancé Pam, but kills for money in Paris’ organization. In addition, he has a relationship with a beauty from the neighbourhood and gets bothered by a pimply video store guy, because he did not return “King Kong Lives” for two weeks. He and his three teammates Cisco, Crunch and Vince one day decide to kidnap the daughter of super-rich businessman Jiro Nishi – off the record. What they do not know, is that Jiro just went completely bankrupt due to a successless movie production, and, even worse, that his daughter Keiko is the god-daughter of Paris, the boss of the kidnappers. He and his men are now searching for the kidnappers in order to grind them up properly. Meanwhile, handcuffed Keiko falls in love with killer Melvin while both preparing a kosher meal in order to satisfy Pam’s visiting parents, who are out of the house with Pam – with a body in the trunk.

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Hitman with a heart

Wahlberg plays a contract killer who wants no more than to be liked in “The Big Hit”; a solid three star flick which features good action, stunts, pyro, CGI, camera work, etc. Protag Wahlberg juggles two difficult girl friends, a double cross, and a cute kidnapee (Chow) with the demands of his profession in this not-to-be-taken-seriously film with a spritz of romance. A fun and kinetic watch for those into the crime/action/comedy/romance genre mix. (B-)

Feasting On a Diet of Scenery and Ham

The Big Hit is a nice fast paced black comedy where a whole lot of actors get to chew the scenery without getting in the way of each other’s diets. Everyone looks like they’re having a great old time in making this film.

A team of four hit men who we first meet doing a job for boss Avery Brooks decide to do a little weekend moonlighting into kidnapping. They kidnap China Chow the daughter of Sab Shimono a Japanese industrialist who they don’t know is going bankrupt. He couldn’t come up with the payments on his own.

What they don’t know also is that she’s the goddaughter of Brooks who is determined to find the kidnappers and eliminate them. Like Nixon’s staff when Watergate got going, they all start bailing.

The quartet’s head, Lou Diamond Phillips does more than that. He turns on the others and names as the scheme’s mastermind Mark Wahlberg. In the whole cast Phillips is absolutely relishing every minute of his role. He’s stealing the film whenever he’s on screen.

Poor Wahlberg, he’s the schnook of the bunch who apparently has only one talent in life, he can kill people with efficiency. Away from the trade everybody just intimidates him. He’s got two girlfriends, one a Black American Princess, Lela Rochon who’s bleeding him dry and a Jewish American Princess, Christina Applegate who’s engaged to him, sort of. Even the obnoxious clerk at the video store is getting on his case.

While Phillips is turning on the group, Wahlberg is having a meeting with Applegate and her parents, Lainie Kazan and Elliott Gould. Next to LDP, Kazan and Gould are the best thing in the film also playing their ethnic stereotypes with relish and ketchup on the side.

Believe it or not, it all works out in one crazy way for poor Wahlberg, but you’ll have to see and enjoy The Big Hit to find out how.

The Big Hit assembles a cast of familiar players who all look like they’re having a great old time, burlesquing their own images and feasting on a diet of scenery and ham. Cut yourself in for a slice.

Action with a Chinese flavour

At first glance, THE BIG HIT looks to be an ensemble action comedy, in which a team of kidnappers pick on the wrong target and soon find themselves victims of the Mob. Look a little closer and you’ll see that Hong Kong director Kirk Wong (CRIME STORY) helmed it and John Woo executive produced; this then is an American film with a distinctly Chinese flavour.

That flavour is present in the style and execution of the action sequences, which contain the kind of stunts and situations familiar from both the knockabout ’80s comedies starring Jackie Chan and the harder-hitting gun films of John Woo. Certainly, watching Mark Wahlberg jumping onto chandeliers, flying in the air, and spinning on railings makes for unique spectacle, even if it is incredibly cheesy for the unsuspecting viewer.

The script is one of those efforts brimming with snappy dialogue and adult humour, the kind that became exceptionally popular after the success of PULP FICTION. The casting director has had a field day, drawing in the likes of Bokeem Woodbine, Lou Diamond Phillips, Elliott Gould and many others to play the larger-than-life characters. It’s occasionally funny and often mildly entertaining, although not the big hit that the title would have you believe; watchable if nothing else.