Product: The Hitman [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
The Jack hits hard indeed
Just out of Soviet fear and the Cold War we were in 1992. Modern American cowboy films had to invent another enemy. Simple recipe: Italian mafia, French mafia, and Iranian mafia, all three together. And there you are. The only place possible is Seattle and Vancouver. The Italians are in Seattle. The French (Canadians) are in Vancouver. And the Iranians are invading with the help of a rotten ex-cop turned drug-lordlet. All that is by far too much and too many. So many will have to be eliminated. What's more there is the ghost of an officially dead cop playing the double agent, and he was officially killed by the rotten ex-cop turned drug-lordlet. And the ghost will finally meet face to face with this drug-lordlet and the latter will be turned into mid-air minced meat, after the three other gangs had mutually been eliminated one after the other by one of the others. The ghost only came for the last harvest of cadavers. It is strange how these modern time cowboy films are little creative. It is all defined within the limits of a shooting posture and a noisy exchange of bullets.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne