As low- intelligence entertainment goes, this film is very much a hit-and-miss affair.
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01/01/00
The Big Hit (1998)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:15
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Mel (Mark Wahlberg) is a neurotic, overworked hit man working for two crime bosses--Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Paris (Avery Brooks). He has a demanding fiance (Christina Applegate) with... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Antonio Sabato
Director: Che-Kirk Wong
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Reviews for The Big Hit
Top CriticIn its non-A-list way, The Big Hit is the most successful attempt yet to transfer the Hong Kong action movie to Hollywood.
01/01/00
Top CriticWong shows he can do a capable action/humor juggling job. If only he had a funnier script to work with.
01/01/00
The characters in these movies exist in a Twilight Zone where thousands of rounds of ammunition are fired, but no one ever gets shot unless the plot requires him to. The bullets have read the screenplay.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Big Hit should be titled The Big Miss. That?s a really bad pun, but it?s better than anything in this movie.
01/08/04
Insatiable moviegoers are advised to wait till this action-comedy, written by Ben Ramsey, thuds into video stores; tasteful moviegoers will avoid it altogether.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe script, by rookie writer Ben Ramsey, is among the most disgraceful screenplays ever to be produced by a major studio.
07/23/07
...vacant and ill-conceived...
03/05/02
Unfortunately, despite a promising premise, the film never manages to be much more than an adolescent exercise in caricatures, so inappropriately broad in its humor that it almost makes Airplane look like a documentary.
06/05/02
One of the funniest movies to come along in awhile.
01/01/00
The Big Hit is nothing more, or less, than a big goof.
02/14/01
Top CriticDelivers the frat-boy goods but its coarseness and vulgarity limit its appeal to relatively undemanding audiences.
01/01/00
Aside from everything else it does, The Big Hit proves that any subject matter can be funny, in the right hands.
10/15/02
GQ model types sweating it up. High-caliber weapons fired indiscriminately. Toned babes in skin-tight clothing. Marky Mark breakdances in a gun fight. What more could you ask for?
01/01/00
More aptly titled The Big Miss, this grade-Z action parody looks like a second-rate John Woo cast-off ... and feels like something out of Lloyd Kaufman's Big Bag o' Troma Rejects.
01/01/00
Score it big-time inane but a load of fun.
01/01/00
Top Critic...crude and bloody but effective action comedy...
01/01/00
Top Critic...there [are] as many awful moments as good ones...
01/01/00
Muito estilo para pouco conteúdo.
05/31/02
I've designated it as a rental simply because despite some gunplay and effects sequences, it won't lose anything on the small screen.
01/01/00
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