Writer: Lisa Lutz
Composer: Brian Tyler
Starring: Frank Pellegrino, Paul Sorvino, Anthony DeSando, Diane Keaton, Nick Sandow, Maury Chaykin, Bob Balaban, Burt Young
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Ready, Fire... Aim!
Plot: A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.
My rating: 6/10
Will I watch it again? No.
The cast is great. There are a lot of folks in this picture that I really dig a lot. The big winner is Paul Sorvino who takes his Paulie character from GOODFELLAS (1990) and ratchets up the the funny a little. He's wonderful. The rest of the cast does a fine job too but this picture needs some tightening up. It's really trying hard to be a screwball comedy but it only sometimes succeeds. When it doesn't it's the pacing that drags it down and sometimes it's a little too frenetic. Regarding that, for as fast as it pretends to be at times the moments that surround those scenes can't keep up. It's a film that really wants to be fast and fun but it doesn't always achieve that. Still, when you've got people like Sorvino and Keaton heading the cast it's worth a look just to see them in funny mode. The Warner Bros. DVD looks great in anamorphic widescreen and you get a few extras. First up is a commentary track from the director, then there's twelve minutes of screen tests and lastly three minutes of deleted scenes (non-anamorphic widescreen).
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