Review of Wild Target (1993) by Myo D — 26 Nov 2013
A delightfully quirky film that revels in its own incomprehensibly British sense of humor, Wild Target serves up some uniquely orchestrated action scenes tinged with enticing musical scores and out-there comedy.
Bill Nighy stars as a middle-aged but renowned hitman who inadvertently becomes infatuated with a target (Emily blunt) and winds up defending her from other hitmen. Along the way, the two run into a 20 something loser (Harry Potter's Rupert Grint) and the three form a dysfunctional family of sorts.
They have great chemistry together, but the only thing stopping Wild Target from being the stupendous film it should be is the sloppy, inconsistent script. The writers get caught up in their own quirkiness in spots, eventually overdeveloping the 2dimensional character they've provided nighy with to his breaking point: an awkwardly unfunny scene in which he thinks he might be gay for Grints character.
The film mostly recovers with a cool apprenticeship montage between nighy and Grint, and the three leads help keep the implausible plot down at the ground level.
This review of Wild Target (1993) was written by Myo D on 26 Nov 2013.
Wild Target has generally received positive reviews.
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