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HITMAN
**1/2
Written, Produced, and Directed by Roberto Roarke
Edited by Roberto Roarke and Michael Harrowes
Photographed by Chris MerryCast
Dan O’Mears – Lucky Delon
Phil Novak – Harvey Raoch
Todd Edwards - BMFI love a movie that knows when to end. To bad HITMAN drags out for 75 minutes before it finally gives up.
The movie isn’t as bad as I just made it out to be. Its biggest problem is that it drags things out for absolutely no reason and the scenes that need to be lengthened are far too short. This includes the climax. The movie bills itself as an action film. What little action there is that doesn’t come in the form of talk is pretty clean and competent.
The story of this Italian-made thriller is a familiar one. Dan O’meara plays Lucky Delon, a boxer who is asked to throw a fight. When he doesn’t he is hunted down and brought before the corporate big-wig who ordered the fall. In exchange for his life Lucky is ordered to do a hit on the Japanese Mafia who are muscling in on the local territory.
On the way to the job Lucky is mentored in ways of the hitman from Harvey Roach, a guy who Catholic up-bringing gets in the way of sex whenever his girlfriend screams the Lords name in ecstasy. In all fairness Phil Novak who plays the elder hitman does a pretty good Clint Eastwood impression.
The camera work is much better than other low-budget, film-shot features and the editing is first rate. I just wish they could have cut down on the needless dialogue. It doesn’t move the movie along at all. I would have enjoyed the film more if it were only 60 minutes, and trust me, you could easily cut 15 minutes of pointless chatter from this one.
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