Hitman 2023 by AverageMansReviews

Hitman 2023 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/man on woman violence/reference to Russia Vladimir Putin/gun laws/toxic relationship/medical

Highbrow, Lowbrow: in short Danny Hero [Elijah Rowen:] he is a adopted son/confidant to Michael Hero [Eric Roberts:] is a self-made man which has criminal links, but is also the CEO of Ryan & Terry, one of the largest blue-chip corporations. But is now seeking revenge from those that killed his beloved grandson Jackie Hero [Max Lohan:] grandson which pushes his luck whilst on holiday in London; in fact his grandfather puts out $1 million bounty on their heads.

The framework and pacing of this 109 minutes; well the framework is Danny being the storyteller of this entire film; hence why I used the two words highbrow, lowbrow because this is highbrow stuff, within this as well we get character developments and background information on these characters in some capacity, I will talk more about the character developments momentarily; with the art of the days moving rotating quickly and don't worry we will get onto the lowbrow things later. But for now the pacing of this film is just so slow, it has no intention of getting any quicker whatsoever. I mean usually I do try to not sugarcoated, but vaguely sometimes very vaguely positive-ish about it. But in this case there is no point me trying to say anything positive that clearly isn't there.

Comedy/Character developments and Performances: okay before I continue I do have a very wide and dark sense of humour. But even for me these comedy references are not funny collectively, I mean full disclosure I laughed once just based on I was amazed how inappropriate these references were; so we have a reference to patronising racist and Vladimir Putin, the US/UK gun laws, sexual assault and a period joke. I am just surprised that they didn't finish off the inappropriate list by bringing up something  disabled or/and mental health. You know if you are going to go for a list of inappropriate things to joke about why stop there? You may as well finish it off. The character developments are on most counts something safe and reliable; but I have to say that the relationship between this husband-and-wife Luke and Laura Loveday [Daniel Caltagirone and Lois Brabin-Platt] is toxic and for the performances they are safe and reliable version of what they are meant to be.

Action: there is nothing special here to talk about, there are shooting and those kind of things.

This film receives: 1/10, this film is poor; yes as I have shown in this content there are some highbrow things, but they are tremendously outweighed by the lowbrow. For some strange reason this film also has a couple of awards accredited to its name: National Film Awards 2023, UK Savvas D. Michael Nominee National Film Award Best Screenplay Savvas D. Michael (Writer / Director) and at the same award ceremony/event National Film Award Best Feature Film Savvas D. Michael (Writer / Director) John Pavlakos (producer)