Moustroll
Good movie but grossly overrated
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
moonspinner55
Hit-man for the Toronto Mafia, an Indian tribesman nicknamed "Blackbird", and his new partner, a self-styled young gangster with an itchy trigger finger, mistake an unemployed construction worker in Michigan as their next hit when they turn up at his wife's real estate office. The target and his wife, newly-separated, are able to identify the pair and are placed by the FBI under Witness Protection services. Elmore Leonard novel, weakly adapted by Hossein Amini, turned into yet another Tarantino-esque series of gun battles, staged for maximum impact with nasty language, shattering glass and bloodied bodies. It all looks and sounds familiar, although Mickey Rourke's impassive assassin is intriguing and the actor manages to imbue the portrait with some depth. A disaster at test screenings, the film was extensively recut after production, but still failed to find an audience. Leonard served as one of the executive producers--and should have known this script was a lachrymose dud. *1/2 from ****
bowmanblue
Killshot is about a couple (Thomas Jane and Diane Lane) who are in the process of getting divorced. However, they witness an attempted armed robbery by partners in crime (Mickey Rourke and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and subsequently hunted down by the pair in order to 'silence' them - permanently.What follows in an hour and a half of cat and mouse antics and the criminals use all their resources to track the couple down, in order to eliminate them. Not a bad premise, but the one thing I found was that I found myself rooting for the bad guys - not because I agreed with their motives, but because they were just so much more charismatic than the 'heroes' (think how Brad Pitt's and Juliet Lewis' psychotic performances outshone David Duchovney and what's-her-name's in Kalifornia and you're in the right area).Killshot isn't anything special, or anything that you haven't seen before. However, what makes it worth watching is the performance of the villains. Some people have commented how Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn't pull off 'the hard man' act very well. Yes, he was a little manic, but, either way, I found he stole every scene from Thomas Jane and Diane Lane, but was - naturally - outdone in the psychopathic stakes by Mickey Rourke.There's definitely worst ways to spend an hour and a half.
FlashCallahan
Carmen Colson and her husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an extortion scheme go wrong. Thinking they are safe at last, they are targeted by an experienced intimidating hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer. The ensuing struggle will test Carmen to the limit.....Always curious about this movie because of all the push backs, Killshot has to be one of the most irritating, pretentious movies I've seen in a long while.Rourke spends the movie pouting and giving rationale or his doing, Levitt is just too over the top in a way even David Lynch would cringe at, and Rosario Dawson is totally wasted.Lane and Jane are okay, but they are he most boring couple I've ever seen on celluloid.The film meanders from scene to scene to scene, and one cannot believe that a prolific director like Madden could make something so redundant.It tries to be offbeat, tries to be something a little out there, even mystical, but the film is a complete shambles from beginning to end.Highly avoidable.
mikeholliday51
My opinion? Good movie; it struggles a bit at first but plays out well. Diane, Mickey, Gordon all excellent. Very underrated movie. A shame it went straight to DVD, not enough recognition. I'm a fan of Diane (she is extremely sexy) and Gordon is perfect as the psycho. I want a copy of this movie to my collection and I have quite a collection. Gordon is also excellent in "The Lookout", another looked over movie. Anyway, watch, enjoy, and admire the very attractive Diane Lane. And why do I need to submit 10 lines? I fail to understand IMDb's rule on this but hey, I guess I will submit to their request. Speaking of Diane, another good movie is "Streets of Fire" with Michael Pare.
