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“Hit Man” Movie Review

October 14, 2024 at | In Uncategorized | No Comments

The Netflix movie “Hit Man” delivers a blend of romance, comedy, and suspense. The film is centered around the main character Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) who goes through a personality transformation. Gary is a professor at a university and teaches psychology and philosophy, while also working undercover at the New Orleans Police Department. He started as working in a van doing technical things, but when an emergency arises, Gary is required to pose as a hit man. 

He becomes so successful that he becomes the unit’s full-time undercover hit man. He gathers information on the person so he can adjust his appearance accordingly to the “client.” Things appear to be going well for him and lead to making many arrests, until he meets a woman named Madison (Adria Arjona). 

Madison wants to have her husband killed because he is abusive and this is her only way out. Madison isn’t just any ordinary client though, and Gary ends up breaking character and talks her out of it, but it ends up getting messy quickly. 

The movie’s theme is centered around the idea of change and identity, and Glen Powell puts on an excellent performance demonstrating the switch between his personalities he has to play. He has numerous personas that he pulls off and goes to extreme lengths to do so. His ability to pull off playing a character who himself is playing multiple characters was awfully impressive. The romantic relationship is what made the movie so suspenseful and worth watching. The chemistry between him and Adria Arjona was pretty remarkable and allowed to add more depth into their relationship and the plot itself. 

This movie does a great job at drawing out Gary Johnson’s life and giving him quite the personality, but seems to have nothing big whatsoever on Madison. It just felt like for someone being kind of a big part of the story line we get no background or even much of a story on her at all. She just seemed to be thrown in there and I wished we got to know more about her. 

The Director Richard Linklater, does a fantastic job with capturing the film’s blend of humor and action. The movie was overall paced well, and allowed moments to capture both the comedic scenes and suspenseful ones, while creating scenes that enhance the story. 

Although a lot of this story has been fabricated for the sake of the movie, this is based on a true story. If you are interested in true crime but also love romance and comedy then this is definitely one to check out.