Review of The Hit List (2011) by Tosin L — 13 May 2011

DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS.

Cuba, been a while since he did something worth watching. Staying away from the A movies, and keeping with B movies, most of them crap that I never bother writing about them. This movie is another version of Collateral (Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx), viewed from a different point.

It has a moral, never talk to strangers, especially when drunk in a bar.

The story is simple Allan Campbell (Cole Hauser), loses his promotion at work to a colleague. He goes home to find his wife sleeping with his best friend, he goes to bar and gets drunk meets a guy and while drunk writes a hit list gives it to his new friend. He wakes the next morning and the people in the list start to die. Now he must stop his new friend.

The killing style in the movie is nice, you will enjoy it.

Really this is a good movie, if it was an A movie it will have been even better. The casting in this movie is manageable cause Cole Hauser and Cuba Gooding JR did extremely well, making the other actors look like illusion. The lines in the movie are wonderful and did I mention that Cuba was excellent in this movie. The story line is short and simple and well presented, did I mention that Cuba did well in this movie.

Cinematography needed a little work though, better camera angles won't have been so bad. And you'll notice time wasted in some scenes, not trying to make the movie too short. A horrible James Bond reap off beginning, seriously why they did that I don't know.

Did I mention Cuba did well in this movie, really he was outstanding. The twist in the movie was not so good, stolen from the wonderful comedy movie "Nothing to Lose" (Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence). And you get to see a little of Rambo: First blood, in the ending too just a little.

At the end you learn one thing DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS they may be frustrated psychos. Watch out for little glitches here and there.