Coldblooded (1995)

i must have seen a different film!!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Wolodarsky hasn't a clue.He obviously tries to make a point about the self righteous attitude people have towards others. It's a good point.It was a point poorly made here.A bookie is promoted to hit man. Okay, there's the first clue we have that Wolodarsky doesn't have a clue. He must never have been outside his drawing room. The idea is beyond ludicrous. A bookie is the last person you would want for a hit man. A bookie is working with numbers and times. The bookie is the community's retired man, whom the law knows about, whom the tea party ladies know about, who performs the local service. Often, the mob does drag him in for their own profits, too.However, no one outside of the bubble boy community will believe a bookie would make a natural hit man by virtue of being a bookie.So, the premise is that the "new hit man" is an "everyman", but here again it fails. This "everyman", we learn at the end, is a complete psychopath.The movie spends over an hour on what Saturday Night Live could say in 30 seconds. The idea is that whenever someone is "whacked", the people who know have to "raionalize" it. They need to justify it.Indeed, nearly ever murder, ever atrocity, every war crime, is "self justified" this way. The people who learn of it must think the victim deserves it.It's not funny. It's not even dark humor. It fails miserably. It probably would have been a decent 2 minute sketch or short. But again, Wolodarsky just doesn't have a clue.

I started watching this movie about 10 minutes into it, and I had to see it to the end. Lovely story, great acting, with some truly original scenes. Jason may seem a bit helpless, but that's just clever acting/directing.I'm happy to see that I'm not alone in appreciating this movie. The only thing i can fault this movie for, is casting a teen idol in a grownup movie. But that doesn't diminish the movie in itself. (In that respect it's similar to "17 again", which I also enjoyed a lot.)The fact that I saw it on TV just now (2010) goes to show that this movie has staying power. Brilliant stuff.

"Coldblooded" is a genuine surprise. It's one of the funniest black comedy's I've seen, and the credit almost entirely belongs to the right-on , deadpan performance of Jason Priestly. Priestly plays Cosmo, an almost catatonic bookie, perfectly happy with is lowlife position, until a "management change" forces his to be "promoted" to hit-man. I say, "almost entirely," because the other great performance in this movie belongs to Peter Riegert, who plays the burned-out hit-man who trains Priestly. Their scenes together are the best in the movie, though there are several brilliant others, such as:WARNING: SPOILERPriestley's conversation with Michael J. Fox and his wife. Priestley's conversation with his girlfriend's ex boyfriend. Priestley's confession to his girlfriend about his occupation. Priestely's final conversation with his girlfriend.None of these scenes could have worked without clever writing and none of them could have worked without Priestley, in an Oscar-worthy performance. This one's playing SUNDANCE in letter-box. Grab it while you can, because who knows when it will make it to DVD.\Priestley's character most certainly was the inspiration for Bruce Willis' "Jimmie the Tulip" in "The Whole Nine Yards". If you liked that movie, you'll most certainly like "Coldblooded".I give "Coldblooded" an "8".I

I feel I must step up & defend one of my favourite movies. Jason Priestley has never really even shown up on my radar, but to call him boring in this movie is to miss his intent altogether, I think. He wasn't boring, he was clueless to the existence of anything outside of his pathetic, but happy, little life. I'm laughing now at the thought of the childlike wonder and excitement when he finally discovers something he's good at! Peter Riegert was very funny as well. Janeane Garofalo was wasted; Michael J. Fox was a co-producer & apparently had a couple days to kill...All in all, though, this little film ranks alongside Grosse Pointe Blank and Oscar (okay, Johnny Dangerously, too!)on my list of good gangster comedies. Oh, yeah! The Whole Nine Yards had some REALLY funny moments! Just can't get enough of seeing Matthew Perry beat the bejezus outta himself! Haven't seen Ten Yards, though. I am afraid...!