The Big Hit balances between comedy, parody and action-oriented comedy with a touch of drama and romance, and that's not an easy balance to get fine tuned to work. Mark Wahlberg is our main character as a hit-man in a hit squad. He also have issues with his wife and his girlfriend, mostly because he hate it when people doesn't like him. Yeah. The irony of it all wasn't only not lost, but it was painfully often tried to beat us to death during the movie.
Lou Diamond Phillips, Bokeem Woodbine and Antonio Sabato Jr. is the rest of the hit squad, while Christina Applegate is his wife, Lela Rochon his girlfriens, Avery Brooks his boss and they introduced China Chow as a kidnapped girl they get their hands on as a moonlighting job. That kidnapping doesn't work out at all, and our story have lifted.
It's all funny at times, but way too often you got that old "a little to much, a little too often"-feeling. Not funny enough to make parody, and way too often to be overlooked. Wahlberg doesn't really pull off the lead. Lou Diamond Phillips outshine him easily, and China Chow was also fresh enough. The rest of the cast is from mediocre to bad, and jokes about trace buster tracing, trace buster buster tracing even if trace buster is used, and trace buster buster buster .... well. It's not funny after the first time, and what's more it's predictable as well.
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