Interview with a Hitman (2012)

Pretty Good

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This film is by far underrated and I perhaps believe it was rated by persons who cannot appreciate what this work has to offer.If you're looking for a watered down story and a simple generic plot...you're not going to get it here, so don't review based on that. This is not Taken or anything else.This is a deep film which will glue you to your seat. With a low budget and acting good enough that you are kept enticed throughout, this is very fresh and something you must see.This is what action thrillers should be, not like what they have become in recent times. My only criticism would be that the end was fairly predicable from the outset however it is also padded with things you did not know, so I suppose it evens out.Very well done. Bravo.

The best part about the film is the realism with which the actor plays Victor the assassin. Most other Hit-man movies that I have watched were excellent in terms of how they emphasized on how dangerous paid killers are as well as brutal. However what most films don't do is show that even a mass murderer has a deep sensitive side no matter how cold. And it also shows how some kids who become hit men in the future begin killing from an early age. Watch the movie Interview with a Hit-man to find out how an ordinary youth turns into the youngest paid killer working for the Sergey Crime family.

My favorite phrase in the whole film is 'My name is Viktor.' The charisma with which the actor playing Victor says these lines absolutely amazes me. It's almost like listening to the Casanova of murder. The film Interview with a Hit-man opens up with a series of disconnected scenes that later come together like the pieces of a puzzle, and then the story plays out. The only thing I didn't like the film was that I felt it was a bit too violent and so realistic. However the violence was toned down, and some of it even justified in the end.

Typical tough guy too cool for everything hit man character without emotion except when he sees a woman getting beaten like his mother then he supposedly jumps into righteous hero mode. Predictable and formulated with incessant droning music that makes you want to take a bullet yourself just to end the monotony. And enough with the shaky camera, it literally does not stop quivering for a split second during the whole movie. Even reigning hand held twitchy kings like the Bourne flicks take a break from that once in a while during the story. The twist at the end is not even enough to rescue this flick from an hour and a half exercise in dreariness.