Review 769: Hit Man
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[music] Hello everybody and welcome to the spoiler warning podcast. This is review number 769 with a review of Hitman. I'm Christopher Schnazzy. And I'm Stephen Miller. And if you're joining us for the first time, the spoiler warning podcast is a weekly film review program. Each week in the show, we're going to dive into discuss and argue over the latest films coming to a theater review this week. We are talking about a film that as of the time of this recording is currently playing in a few theaters, but by the time you are listening to this episode, it should now be available for streaming on Netflix. And that is the film Hitman. Stephen and I caught it at TIFF last year, I guess it is now. And it is finally available for everybody to watch. We are talking about it, Stephen. Without getting too far into it, I think this is a film we both had fun with at TIFF. Are you excited to talk about it for real now? I am. In the heat of a festival, I think this was pretty much in the midpoint of TIFF for us, so it was very much my brain was already soup. And so you never know what is going to hit at a festival and not work in real life or what might get elevated in a normal movie theater setting. So I was excited to catch this again, especially because this one, I think the biggest deal out of TIFF, it was like a $20 million acquisition by Netflix. It was a huge bet that they are making. So I was intrigued to see what happened to what I remember as a little charming movie out of TIFF and see if it has legs. I had a lot of fun with it at TIFF. I mean, if you think about it though, like TIFF audience is probably about equivalent to audience at a tiny theater where our combined age is still less than the average age of the rest of the people who are in the theater. So what Chris is alluding to is the fact that this, the rollout, the Netflix allowed for this, is very, very, very strange. They clearly are not doing a wide rollout. In our case, it is only going to one theater, which is the landmark opera plaza, which is a tiny theater in downtown San Francisco that was playing a few blocks away from where Skrillex, I believe, was doing an impromptu DJ set this weekend. And so there were so many open seats. Yeah, all the young people were at Skrillex and then Chris and I, we were not in the same screening, but presumably both of us were surrounded by octogenarians the whole time. It was a bunch of older folks. At one point, there were some people in the row behind me who said something that was about to be revealed. And the people directly in front of them, as it was happening, went, "Oh my God!" and repeated the reveal that the guys loudly said in the seat behind them. So, I mean, at least they were dialed in and focusing, I couldn't hear the people around them. The couple next to me had a lot of what did he say, and then the other person saying what he said. He said he's a hitman. Charmaine. Charmaine. It is very interesting how, because you assume most people just like Google movie times and go to whatever has the movie playing, but the Opera Plaza theater is a very self-selecting group where it seems like 95% of attendees are just the older people who, like, I believe there are particularly apartment complexes near the Opera and Opera Plaza that, for whatever reason, are mostly elderly people that live there. But it seems like this theater is mostly people who just wander in and go like, "Oh, remember Ricky? Ricky Linkie? Remember that young fella?" Yeah, yeah. I mean, it does remind me of a bygone time when, you know, you could just show up to the theater and see what's playing and decide to watch something. Even myself, one who had planned, I would still be out to dinner with my dad and we'd pick a place near the theater and then just walk over and see what the next showing is of a couple different things that might be worth saying. It was a good feeling. That's how I wound up seeing the bewitched movie for my very first date. It was a solid choice. And how did that date go? The movie was trash, but we dated for three years. So, you know, you might say, "I cast a spell." I might, I might, Stephen. All right, well, what do you say we get into this film, Stephen? Let's do it. Let's take a listen to the trailer for hitman and then come back and give everyone
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In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Hit Man.