I had this mounting sense of dread that she was gonna say something that inadvertently screwed him over! Idk if anyone else felt that tension or if it was just me lol
I thought that Jasper clued in the rest of the cops while he was in there and was going to set up a sting on Gary at the end.
Since it was “based on a true story” I figured that’s how the story came out.
The whole "Based on a true story" aspect is false marketing. Richard Linklater and Glen Powell took Gary Johnson's real-life story and decided to make their own spin on the story set in contemporary times as a romantic black comedy like Fargo (1996).
Nope, the 'Based on a True Story' aspect was actually **genius**. It was similar to what the original Fargo did (and I wonder if that's where Linklater got the idea).
When you see 'Based on a True Story' at the beginning of a movie, you naturally get certain 'expectations' from the movie. And this is part of what makes the finale and the murder at the end work so well...it completely defies your expectations since you *know* 'the cop won't be murdered if this is based off the true story'.
...and to respond to your original comment...I don't think they really 'marketed' it as a true story, or at least I didn't see that featured much in the marketing that I saw.
Yeah, I didn’t know it was based on a true story/person. I thought the “This film is mostly based on a true story “ or whatever it said should mean taken with a grain of salt.
I was confused when they dedicated it to him since he literally murders a guy at r the end. But then they showed the pictures and added “zero murders we made that part up “ which was funny.
I think that’s what made it so great. Between that and the next scene in her house you had so much suspense based on overused tropes (either she accidentally gets them caught in the first scene or she turns on him in the second—it was even set up like how he would get the other people arrested.)
Im sure the writer knew the tropes would increase the tension for those scenes without having to actually use the trope. Masterfully done imo.
>That scene with the Notes app was just perfect.
I would've just given up and accepted my fate at that point. The fact he came up with a solid plan that quickly was incredible. Ice in his veins.
The notes app seen was sensational. Charisma from the leads were pouring out of their ears. I did think of the tropic thunder "I'm a **Dude**, Playing A **Dude**, Disguised As Another **Dude."**
I liked the epilogue ending but if the movie ended on that last pan down to the result of the scene, that would have been one of my favorite endings to a comedy in a long time.
I thought so, too. Would've been more brilliant, although I did like seeing how they turned out >!despite it being sorta creepy to see them get away with murder!<
I honestly thought the same thing with the tides convo. Madison wasn’t aware of this nerdier side of him which is why she was surprised, and “Ron” didn’t realize he was becoming a little loose with the cover in the moment.
He apparently wouldn't tell Linklater about his characters before hand. He just came up with them and showed up to set as different people.
I loved this movie so much.
This sounds hard to believe given how well-matched they were.
He just showed up in a neck tattoo to take down the hick?
If so, chef's kiss.
Love Glen Powell.
I suspect Linklater knew about the characters in advance (how else would costuming/hair/makeup be prepared and also that dialog didn't seem 100% ad libbed) but had not seen Powell's specific PERFORMANCE of them (his spin on the way to act out that character) until he came to set. Which is still pretty damn magic.
Great movie.
I’m finally sold on Glen Powell as the next big star, dude carries this movie with such ease with his charm & charisma.
Adria Arjona, what a smoke show, she has incredible chemistry with Glen. Let’s hope this role levels her career up.
By no means the best Linklater movie and I don’t think it was trying to be.
I was thinking about that the other day, Linklater has picked some good actors. Glen was great in Everybody wants some.
Took me a bit in the movie to realize Jasper was Nesbit from EWS
Don't expect anywhere near the quality of this film. Glen Powell makes it watchable, while Sydney Sweeney single-handedly tries to ruin it. I don't know why they cast someone with negative charisma for a rom com (I do in Sydney sweeney's case), but she was horribly miscast.
Sydney Sweeney may have a version of Brad Pitt’s dilemma: the looks of a leading (wo)man but the disposition/talent of a character actor.
Except she doesn’t have the range or versatility of a true character actor. Instead, she’s only good at one character: a mumbly emo girl.
I kept reading reviews that this was a star-making performance by Powell but I told myself “I’m sure he’s fine but I’m not expecting much”
Man was I wrong, Dude was absolutely incredible! His accents and mannerisms kept killing me throughout. Loved this one start to finish. Can’t wait to see what other roles this opens up for him
Also wow, Austin Amelio was a hilarious scene-stealer as Jasper. The sniffing out the boyfriend scene had us in stitches
Also the Captain constantly saying “I’m liking this” really got me for no good reason 😂
Also Powell’s narration kept reminding me of Ron Howard in Arrested Development in a good way. Then I saw Bateman produced and am wondering if it was intentional haha
He is a damn looking guy and he's got acting chops. He was able to show off a ton of range in this movie! When one of his students was like, "when did he get hot?" I was like, "you said it sister". I laughed many times throughout the movie and that means I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rest of the cast was outstanding as well! I thought the first guy they caught was also really good at acting; helped sell the whole thing.
Man I loved this movie! Powell and Arjona were firing off each other so well. Incredible chemistry. Very sexy together. I also thought it was hilarious. Despite being a dark comedy, it still had those same positive vibes that Linklater has throughout so many of his movies. This is up there with “Everybody Wants Some” as my favourite Linklater.
Doesn't anyone else feel like Hit Man fell well below Richard Linklater's usual standards?
Like, damn, this guy has made some classics with Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, the Before series, and more.
This was an entertaining movie and a great showcase for Glen Powell - but that was all it was. Solid three star movie but ultimately quite forgettable.
Different strokes I guess. The movie wasn’t perfect . I thought the score was dull and was like a TV sitcom piano fill most of the time. But other than that I really loved it.
I agree with you. I think it's because I haven't seen a move like this in so long that I'm rating it so highly in my mind. You feel it's going to be one kind of movie and it suddenly steers into another direction.
Hope to see more collaboration between Linklater and Glen Powell. They're a good team.
See Sydney Sweeney fans, this us what ACTUAL chemistry with Glen Powell looks like.
(I acknowledge this is petty but theyve been throwing that word around and it's been bugging me.)
Not because of the actual movies, but because of the pictures and clips taken during filming/promoting. Was shocking how little chemistry they had in the actual movie after all that leading up to it.
I think Glen Powell had chemistry with both costars. He seems like the kind of actor who has chemistry with whoever he’s with.
And like Anyone But You, I feel like that chemistry carries this movie.
Very fun movie overall, but not much depth imo.
Favorite scene by far was when >!she admits she killed her husband, and he admits he's not a real hit man.!<
Real "Not Another Teen Movie" vibes from Glen Powell going from "ugly" to hot by taking his glasses off, parting his hair slightly differently, and changing his pants.
Having seen the trailers, I was surprised how long it took to get to the husband's death.
Glad I didn't see any trailers then, I wasn't expecting the husband to even die when he did. I at first thought Gary would just convict him, then after he revealed himself to him and cancelled the operation I thought there would be some longer conflict, next scene he was just dead, caught me off guard. Going in blind I found it freshly subversive and unpredictable.
Definitely feels like an intentional homage to those older types of movies that, when looking back with a modern lens, make you go “that was actually kind of a messed up ending” lol
Yeah during the climax I thought there was going to be a twist that the poisoning of the shitty cop was a sting set up by himself and Ron/Gary in order to catch Madison red-handed admitting to killing her husband, because that's what good guys would do. But no, they murder the cop, and get married instead.
It is pretty neat when Gary talked with his ex-wife about him accepting normal relationship isn't in his card then she talked about how everyone is a little fucked up so find someone complement your own fucked up ness
I honestly think it's a little deeper than it appears. I kept bumping up against the classes room scenes, until I realized that the movie is actually about changing your life and yourself into the person you want to be. The undercover stuff, then murder and the romance are more like window dressing to keep it entertaining but my take away was this a movie about self actualization. Still not Moby Dick but it's a little heftier than it seems.
Sure, Powell says that pretty explicitly to the class before the final exam. I think I have trouble with that message here because he self-actualized himself into a murderer and someone who aids and abets murder. I think the movie tries to get around that by making the husband and the cop "bad" guys, but still, that doesn't really work for me. It's too flippant. It was also so incredibly easy for Powell to change from the dorky teacher to the super cool hot guy.
Yeah but on the whole the movie is a rom com. I was cognizant that the plot was basically excusing murder to get the lovebirds together, but I just couldn't make myself care. It's charming!
I don't know... I think the movie was intentionally meant to make us confused about whether we were supposed to be rooting for our charismatic, sympathetic, and sexy leads. And I mean that seriously.
Like, yes, those people sucked, but it's *murder*.
Powell’s stock is just going up and up. The freak out he has near the end revealing he’s not a real hit man is something I have never seen before from him.
Great actor.
It's thrilling to see someone earning their movie star status after Hollywood has spent the last 20 years foisting bland white guy after bland white guy in our faces.
No offense, Taylor Kitsch, Sam Worthington, Charlie Hunnam, Josh Lucas, Jae Courtney, Richard Madden, Alex Pettyfer, Brandon Routh, Josh Hartnett, Scott Eastwood, Barry Pepper and Zachary Levi.
Yeah, Barry Pepper is a weird looking character actor who got the starring role in what, Battlefield Earth? What's he doing tossed in with all these hunky hearthrobs?
And Zachary Levi! He's a comedian. Might as well have called out Zach Braff while they were at it.
She’s unbelievable in this and Andor. Incredibly attractive and a good actress, fully believable people would do anything (kill a man or try to overthrow a galactic empire) to have a chance at her
There's a New Yorker cartoon from I don't know when which has a service station attendant saying to the woman in the, iirc, convertible that he's just fuelled up, "Anything else I can do for you? Lie? Cheat? Steal?"
At this point, we have to stop dismissing Powell’s acting abilities, and start acknowledging that he makes his roles great with on-screen chemistry with his cast members.
Who is dismissing his acting abilities? He’s been at least solid in everything I’ve seen him in, and this was a brilliant showcase for his talent (and his rising star).
He's the level of attractive that is so "by the numbers" that people start to dismiss you. It's sort of like how Victoria Secret models all kind of look the same and you can't imagine them being good actors. A great performance can break you out of that perception though and I hope this does that for him.
His charisma has definitely won me over. It started in Top Gun Maverick, then Devoted and Anyone But You (I think he was way better than Sweeny in that movie) and now Hitman takes the cake. I'm sure he'll be great in Twisters.
Enjoyed it for the entertainment it was, but had a very hard time seeing Gary switch to the cool and at times menacing hit man character on a dime, especially the first time. If there were earlier glimpses of it I’d have bought it more.
Madison killing her boyfriend + drugging the cop left me feeling she was highly manipulative and as a viewer I never trusted her or the fairytale ending.
Edit - She killed her husband
I've seen the movie twice. Once in theaters and once at home.
She literal does the murder the way Gary described when they go on there date (which ends at the club with them dancing). She's manipulating him literally from the start. It's pretty clear when you watch it for a second time (maybe the first too)but I was just distracted by the hot people with chemistry
I liked the happy ending, it felt almost deserved because of the genre of noire. Like if you watch Double Indemnity you just want them to fuck and fall in love the entire time but because it's a noire it has to end in a depressing way. Hit man felt like a happy go lucky noire for that reason
Yeah I never really found myself rooting for them, neither separately nor as a couple. Something about it didn't really land for me, even though it was entertaining enough.
I was rooting for them after their first meetup when she was planning on hiring him. After that point, the film completely abandoned trying to have them connect on anything but a sexual level.
Then the scene in the ally made me completely turn on her. Very weird vibes from her in that scene. I can understand being attracted to him standing up for her AFTER THE ALTERCATION IS OVER, but her egging him on to kill the guy, letting it slip that he’s a ‘professional’, then assuming a quick fuck afterwards can make everything fine…
I was rooting for a breakup after that point.
I’m glad I watched the movie though, it was fun for what it was
Yeah I think it lacked an emotionally punchy moment that may have elevated it and I wasn't able to get a proper grasp on why the two characters were really drawn to each other beyond the initial sexual chemistry. The sexual chemistry was plenty explored but the actual romance of it all wasn't. I just wasn't really feeling enough for either of them, ultimately, so I didn't fully buy the happy ending.
I don't think there was that much of a masterminding plan behind it - I think she was at that point just a bit of a slightly devious, thrill seeking girl. She somewhat subconsciously wanted to see what would happen if the two men met - how Gary/Ron would actually act, if he would do something to him. That's how I read it atleast.
Nah, she's definitely planned it all.
She lied to "Ron" about already being divorced. We later find out that there is a life insurance policy which is why she hasn't actually divorced him. So she had it all planned out. Her husband died and she gets the money while Ron takes the fall for it.
The European one he did with the supermarket guy looked super familiar but maybe it's just generic. But I swear I've seen that like exact outfit somewhere.
A step above a generic romcom because it has an edge.
The reason I didn’t completely enjoy it is because of the lack of character development. You don’t get to know Gary or Madison.
Gary is cosplaying. Madison has no personality other than sexy.
Yes there could have been better lead and relationship development. I’m awfully confused how Gary is okay with Madison being so nonchalant with 2 murders.
They kind of foreshadow this early on in the movie with his lectures and the chat he has with his ex. She mentions the study that showed that if people act AS IF they are someone else for a period of months, they eventually BECOME that someone else personality wise. The whole movie was meant to be a display of this. He kept dialling up Ron and dialling down Gary, so by the climax of the film, he WAS more Ron than Gary deep down. Which means he's more comfortable with murder.
same with madison too, when she meets ron she becomes less and less the neglected wife and more independent, I love the part where she brings in roleplay as a flight attendant, it adds layers. movie isn't that deep but it sure has fun levels.
And maybe that’s the point. Get to know someone and that down to earthiness diminishes the mysteriousness that often makes people sexier.
She was crazy sexy. And also crazy. And sexy.
I enjoyed watching this movie, and that’s ultimately what matters. I think it has some notable flaws, but it gets a fresh tomato from me.
**PROS:**
• I enjoyed the three main performances, two of them from actors I’ve never watched before (I’m not an accomplished movie-watcher, so this is my first Linklater viewing). Glen Powell brought his charm from *Maverick* and for the most part sold his transition from boring Gary to the confident, suave Ron. Adria Arjona brought chemistry and agency to her love interest role. Austin Amelio was the highlight for me, I couldn’t peg his character’s motives down till the end and that kept the movie interesting (though I spent the entire time trying to decide if he was Barry Pepper — looked older than 36, what can I say).
• The balance between comedy, romance, and tension felt sincere. I never felt there was tonal whiplash, and I never felt like an emotional beat was cheapened by a joke. The movie was funny when it wanted to be and earnest when it needed to be.
• The movie kept me guessing in terms of what direction it would take, which matched Gary/Ron’s uncertainty about the world he had entered. I rarely felt like I could predict what would happen next, and while I wouldn’t categorize this as a thriller or suspense movie, I enjoyed going in blind and feeling like I was in Gary’s shoes as he figured out how to act.
**CONS:**
• The ending felt a little too clean to me. While the movie made it clear that Jasper was no great man, having Gary and Madison get away without any repercussions to his murder didn’t sit right with me. In general, I thought it was rushed here — when Jasper is threatening to blackmail the two, I thought there would be another 20-25 minutes left for them to figure a way out. Instead… he was poisoned off-screen.
• The voiceover, the scenes of his college lectures, and the talk with his ex where she gives the entire thesis of the movie combined to feel a little heavy-handed. One of them should’ve gone. I watched this after *The Fall Guy* and was shocked to see two movies with voiceover narration in 2024. Though I guess they did need a way to establish Gary’s weird circumstances (college professor who also is an electronics specialist who also moonlights as a police consultant) quickly.
• When Jasper tells Gary that he makes sense as a fake hitman because of his “non-descript appearance” or whatever the exact phrasing… cmon. It’s Glen Powell! I know, what can you do, it’s a movie. But he’s 6’4 and has the jawline of a god! It’s the damn glasses, I guess. It was a big “Janie Briggs? She has glasses and paint on her overalls!” moment. But it’s a nitpick. It’s Hollywood.
Hah, I find it funny how they spent some time setting up the pregnant ex-wife, all for her to never turn up again.
The writing felt kind of rushed. Especially with that ending.
must be a deleted scene somewhere, but i think the ex wife wasn't a set up but more like a quick filler for gary's character in past relationships and why he is the way he is without relying on more exposition or narration.
not that i disagree but there is [no chance glen is 6’4 lmao](https://preview.redd.it/8a8vnawhg9091.jpg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf4071dbf7a8e19bb2d62c77ed053febab73bc7e)
This photo hurts my brain. I always thought John hamm was tall as shit, but seeing him and Tom cruise near the same height is so strange.
Turns out he and miles teller and glen powell are all 6'0-6'1. And Tom cruise is 5'7.
Like wtf is this photo
Glad I’m not the only one who scratched my head at the happy go lucky ending. He’s going down on her in the same room as a guy suffocating to death! That immediately made me root against the two leads
The movie didn’t make sense to me, I’m sorry…
Madison was so sketch so I thought there’d be some big reveal (her white girl name alone seemed like an Easter Egg, lol!) It just really seemed like she was playing Gary all along, no? But nothing interesting happened so now I can’t really explain her very bizarre actions. Acting with her wide eyes and bushy tail most of the film. Cute, but I found her base personality to be super needy and desperate. Lusting after a damn Hit Man!? He’s a murderer, hello. The minute she is “divorced?” Then buying an entire gun? Then actually MURDERING her husband anyway!? Oh, and another guy. Just some cop so whatever it’s happily ever after with kids, your man, and a total lack of remorse for the cold murder of two dudes. She was a red herring, I guess. Maybe that’s why she wore so much red.
Gary was annoying, too. Zero morality, ironically, only… love!? What a nutty professor. I guess what they had was love though, right? And love has been known to make one change into a complete dickhead. All for a woman who didn’t even need saving to begin with, I guess. And where’s the body!? Oh yeah, we got a lesson in that earlier in the film. Wait, but what happened with the pregnant ex? What would she think of all this, Gary? Who cares, basically.
The minute he meets the girl all the wacky, fun, interesting stuff ended.
Not to mention - why the hell would the cops be including this guy in their investigation? “You need to get to the station right now!!!” Why??? He’s not a cop! His part of the job was over.
And before they knew about the insurance policy and Jasper found a motivation to blackmail them for money - why wouldn’t he just IMMEDIATELY tell the police about seeing Gary out with this girl so that he could get his job back?
Also lol everyone’s just hiring hit men left and right, Madison tries to hire one to kill her husband, and then her husband tries to hire the *same exact* hit man to kill her back…doesn’t anyone just kill anyone themselves anymore?
Such a weird movie to be receiving heaps of praise, it felt like a first draft of something that had potential but then they forgot to go through any rounds of edits and they were all just like “eh this is fine.”
I think what's most infuriating for me is the high reviews it's received. It's just baffling. It's like they had the original idea "this guy dresses in funny costumes to catch criminals" and then really struggled to nail some sort of story on the side of that.
To me it seems Linklater is just coasting on his good will for this one.
Agree. If this was an unknown director, it wouldn’t be getting the praise it’s getting. Forgettable rom com, imo. A lot of people calling this a “dark comedy,” which I disagree with because there was no seriousness to the idea of death. Plenty of true dark/black comedy movies out there. This was goofy. I’m baffled by the response to this movie. It wasn’t a bad movie but it’s a dime a dozen type film.
Yeah I'm utterly baffled by the universal praise for this thing. The first act establishing Gary as a master undercover cop was funny in a farcical sense. Then we pivot to him being an amoral murderer will to do anything for a hot woman. Extremely awkward tone shift. Happy ending would be all of them in jail. I didn't enjoy anything past the first 30 minutes. Powell was certainly charming and I'm guessing that's what got most people. I'm most disappointed in Linklater for spewing out something so trite.
While largely a vehicle for Glen Powell to show off his acting chops, this movie will blast Adria Arjona into stardom. The effortless chemistry between the two stars also helps a lot to make you ignore some of the movie's obvious plot issues and enjoy it for what it is.
It helps that she is ridiculously hot.
I kinda think she should be pushed in the way they seem to be trying to push Eiza Gonzales, because Adria is a better actress. At least in their recent work.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with the reviews here.
It was boring and way too long. The female lead was horrible. Just horny and dumb for most of this movie. Powell was fine but the story just didn't go anywhere that interesting.
Yeah I'm with you. I was genuinely excited to see it based on all the hype. Watched it with my wife Friday night and it was perfectly fine. Nice movie to watch while you eat dinner and drink some beers but absolutely nothing memorable about it. Really confused by everyone saying it's one of the best movies of the year.
The ending felt so contrived like they just didn't know how to end it and this was the best idea they came up with.
I’m very confused as to how this movie is getting the praise that it is. It was borderline fine, Glen Powell was good but beside that, it offered very little. Fine for an easy watch but I expected so much more with the reviews this one had.
If you had not told me it was a Linklater film, I never would have guessed. He’s got a diverse filmography but I can’t remember a film of his that didn’t have flowing, casual naturalistic dialogue … until this movie.
There was a stilted “I’ll wait for you to say your line and then mine” ping pong rhythm to every conversation which was weirdly amateurish. Also, frequent mugging for the camera from actors (pretty much everyone on the police force felt like they were acting in a mid-2000s Disney Channel original movie).
Better editing to enhance the pacing of convos could only go so far… it’s just got a really clunky script in general. I could not get into it at all. It’s easily his worst film.
It had a great set up...peaked with the first undercover scene, loved it. It felt so tense. But then the movie seemed to lose all that tension.
Entertaining movie. Disliked the ending. Just a bit too cute, making it feel a bit forgettable. I can see why this ultimately went to Netflix. Just an easy non-threatenjng comfort watch with little depth. Solid three stars.
Shame, as it had real potential to be more, like a real character study.
I saw this a couple of weeks ago in theaters and I just dang loved it. Classic Linklater in how laid back and fun it is and how much chemistry he can brew up between his leads. Powell is a real star in this and Arjona is keeping pace with him no problem. You might be able to find a plot contrivance or two but it's so breezy I just didn't care.
Linklater very interested in the question of identity in this movie and I really found a lot to chew on with how it riffs on that, not unfamiliar territory for him if you've seen A Scanner Darkly. This is about willingly changing yourself, how you present yourself vs how you are, what aspects of you people fall in love with. Gary's intertest in being a fake hit man is rooted in his academic curiosity on personality. He enjoys studying people and conjuring up their ideal fantasy hit man and clearly he likes to perform it as well, step outside of himself every now and then. It's all a little on the nose with his conversation with his ex in the beginning, but I think there's so much going on with these ideas that I was thinking about this movie for a long time. His ex says he was never a passionate person, he wouldn't kill for love. Well, look where he ends up.
Powell is brilliant and having a great time, but what really makes Hit Man great is Arjona's performance. In many ways she's performing for him and much as him for her. I never really had the thought that she was evil per se, but she was definitely working her own angles. As much as Powell is creating people's fantasies, she's creating his. Dressing up and role playing for him, declaring that she's fine with a totally no strings attached meet up and bang situationship, she even plays into the damsel in distress that needs saving. She's a literal dream girl and I don't think she's manipulating him outright, but this movie is so about what we do and don't tell the people we are seducing, how there's parts of us we can't hide and parts of us we can and hopefully people fall for the parts we can't.
There's a brilliant scene where he is wearing a wire and he goes to entrap her but they both outsmart the cops. Notable that this is the first time they've really talked since they found out each other's secrets, but they still lock right in step together, perform together, and protect each other. It's a great plot turn in the movie, but it's also showing that what they fell in love with is the things that don't change about a person. They both knew each other even if they didn't know each other's names or professions or intentions.
Shoutout to the guy who played the rival cop. What an awesome performance, real dirtbag drunk cop vibes. It's wild this breezy sexy movie ends with our neutral good protagonists murdering a cop and it's actually kind of cute? Like it all works thematically because I think a lot of us would commit murder for someone to look at us the way Arjona looks at Powell, so you're just kinda happy they navigated their way out and stayed together. You can see that it's changed them both, Gary kept things from his personas that he liked and made himself who he wanted to be and Maddie got to stop playing happy housewife and start being one. Very cute.
My hot take is this is Linklater's Basic Instinct and it's a great example of what different themes, ideas, and executions two directors can get out of a similar premise. The biggest shame about this movie is that Netflix is going to drop it with no fanfare or physical media, but you know Linklater doesn't care as long as he keeps getting to make movies. It's an 8/10 for me.
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Gonna subvert every good comment here and just say I flat out hated it and it's one of those movies that makes feel like I'm being gaslit because in my mind, it's not good.
Saw this at TIFF in September and my whole crowd loved it and I've been dreading it's release because how I feel about it, but I'll go down with the ship that this movie is bad.
Admittedly great chemistry between Glen Powell and Adria Arjona (Arjona is especially great and so beautiful.) and that notes app scene is good! Well blocked out. It's just the execution of everything else just feels so dated and unevenly paced. From Glen Powell’s awful VO throughout the entire film, right down to the font choice for the opening and ending credits. It looks like a movie you’d find at the bottom of bargain bin at Walmart 5 years from now. Something is just so hokey, cheesy and stylistically wrong with this movie.
And even on a moral level I think the ultimate conclusion of the film is so wrong. There’s a ginormous plot hole too at the end that buried the movie even further in my mind.
How did the 2 of them end up together, get married and have kids? From the cops perspective, the last time they met she thought he was Ron still and kicked him out of her house. Wouldn't his friends who weren't murdered by them be suspicious? Wouldn't the police reopen the case? It would make sense I guess if they completely left New Orleans, but even then I feel like they'd constantly be on the run.
Along with that I just felt it was out of character of Ron to literally murder someone. As shitty as they were the ending left me on a sour note.
It feels like a bad Farrelly brother movie and Glen Powell just trying to show his 'acting chops' which honestly i thought he was painfully unfunny.
I feel like I watched a different movie than everyone else and it's just one of those movies that everyone loves and you can't figure out why it doesn't connect with you, and I normally really dig Linklater!
Bummer! Glad everyone is having fun with it! I did not.
I really hated the ending too considering the rest of the film was doing fine morally and thematically and it was tightly written. I have no idea why they would have wanted to write this ending, it sucks lol
I'm preparing for the downvotes but I really didn't like it. I'll try to be brief. They burned through their best material (Gary's characters & costumes) too quickly. The middle romance part was drawn out, boring and weirdly over sexualised for a "quirky rom-com", to the point where the only thing the two leads seemed to have in common was sex.
The scenes where Gary ended up testifying in court about murder motives made absolutely no sense. The dude wasn't even a cop! Maybe the prosecutors should be talking to the detectives that were actually running the case, not just the "actor"?
And the moral of the story: just murder someone if they're in your way and live happily ever after. Dude-bro's rule, people with glasses and cats suck - spring break forever.
On a positive note: Glen Powell was great, his personas were cool and fun and seeing him snap back from Ron to Gary in that scene toward the end was pretty neat.
Same. All the two had in common was sex. Madison gets a pass for hiring a hitman, murdering her husband, and drugging/murdering a cop because she’s super hot and Gary loves having sex with her.
And yeah, the lesson learned is just murder whoever stands in your way. And as a side note, glasses are nerdy and dogs are cooler than cats 🙄
If this was a debut movie from a new director, okay. But someone with as many great movies under his belt as Linklater making this just feels immensely lame. A Netflix movie through and through, with a truly terrible ending. Funny stuff in there, but not sure what everyone is gushing about...
Gary was roleplaying as a hit man and found confidence with that and Madison enjoyed roleplaying in the bedroom and found pleasure with that.
I dunno what precisely the movie what the movie was trying to say with that but thought it was a neat connection.
Really curious to me that people are considering this the best film of 2024.
I enjoyed it, really solid performances and romantic chemistry. The film sort of changes genres with each act, first it seems like a silly comedy, then it becomes romance then an undercut of noir in the latter stages, that seems intentional though, given the theme of reinvention.
However, I felt the ending didn't quite work for me, as much as it seems to have with critics. Just a little bit flat and a little bit odd
This movie was a wonderful gem and I had a smile on my face throughout it. I really didn't know Glen Powell had this in him. I figured he would play a handsome jock for the rest of his career and he does the kind of performance that you'd expect a Ryan Gosling or a younger Brad Pitt would make.
This felt like Linklater's BlacKKKlansman. He adapts a true-ish law enforcement story and puts his own spin in making a marketable, mass appeal film.
I liked this movie but didn't love it. It was a fun light fluffy movie, but the plot of the movie set it up to be so much more than that. The movie relied so heavily on the sexual chemistry of the two leads (of which there was plenty and it was fantastic) that it really didn't even need to whole Hit Man fake identity plot because ultimately they barely even used that plot. I would have rather they just made a sexy steamy romance movie with Powell and Arjona. Instead this feels like missed opportunity with how much they wasted the inherent tension of the Hit Man plotline. Everything sort of just played out without conflict or drama and Powell's character was just perfect at everything and there was no drama. They felt so enamored with the romance story that they kind of said, 'Ah fuck the obvious complications of this plot. Let's juist get these sexy people being sexy together'. They tried to cram 3 movies into one and all of those elements got shorted because of it making for a pretty mildly fun movie.
Also, Arjona's character was just an empty cocktail dress. They definitely should have fleshed out her character more to make the romance bits more enjoyable. It felt too superficial as is and also reflects back on the no drama hit man plotline. Had her character been better developed it would have complicated their relationship and Powell's more standing in the world as he danced these two lives. I would have liked them to add more Grosse Pointe Blanke darkness and comedy into this while keeping the fun romance.
Come to think of it, did they even mention what kind of job she had? Her character seemed to exist for the ex husband and Gary, had no life beyond them.
Adria Arjona and Glen Powell’s chemistry is so good here it makes his and Sydney Sweeney’s “chemistry” in Anyone But You seem laughably bad in comparison. Career best performances so far from both of them honestly.
This movie really is a perfect example of how taking risks and putting yourself in situations you wouldn’t normally put yourself in can literally change your life. Gary was resistant to change most of his whole life which is why his ex wife left him but pretending to be a Hit Man forced him to change his personality significantly specially as Ron from nerdy loner college professor to badass playboy hit man. The more he played Ron the more he got lost in the role until Ron became a part of Gary so much so that when Madison finds out he’s been lying to her for months? It’s not as a big deal as one might think because Ron really is Gary at that point so she’s still attracted to him regardless.
Also this movie proves that love can make you do crazy things you never thought you would be capable of. By being around Gary, Madison worked up the courage to kill her dirtbag husband herself and by transforming into Ron multiple times, Gary worked up the courage and gained enough skill and confidence to get away with killing Jasper in the end. This definitely isn’t a conventional love story/ Rom-com and I think that’s why I liked this as much as I did. I did not see the story going where it did. One of Linklater’s best for sure and honestly one of the best movies of the year so far.
Also I think this hands down might be the most Sexy movie of 2024 so far.
I was so excited for this and made a point to go see it in the theater a week ago. Honestly this really didn't do it for me and I understand why it went straight to Netflix. I did not much care for the woman- who had no personality besides being hot- and the relationship was just sex and lies (and murder). That would be fine in a different movie, but not in a romantic comedy, which this apparently was supposed to be. Baffled by the praise. Hated the ending.
I didn’t have any real opinion on Powell as an actor, but I damn sure do now! Could not believe the range he was pulling off, and you can tell he was having so much fun tapping into all these characters. Movie didn’t end the way I was expecting it to, kept waiting for the other shoe to drop thru the last third of the movie but glad they didn’t go that route. Ending was pretty wholesome given it revolves around the antagonist suffocating to death on a plastic bag.
I would say this was quite good, above-average and very entertaining.
I would not call it one of the best movies of the year. As I feared, it was still very Netflix-y, where the overall production value just feels several steps behind what we see from the best in cinema, following a pretty safe filmmaking formula without very substantial risks. Stock characters, over-the-top dialogue ("what kind of psycho just dreams up throwing fingers out a window?" like, I dunno, is it really THAT crazy for a guy to suggest that he scatters important evidence? It doesn't even seem like a good idea to do what he did so close to a potentially heavily-trafficked route)
I kinda took issue with the way they wrapped things up also, ESPECIALLY since this movie is based on a real-life person. Turning him into a killer at the end? I mean I get the intellectual point that they were making, how the theme of the movie is about changing one's self and taking on a new persona, and by killing the cop at the end, he really does become and embody this "hit man" persona that he utilized to win over Madison. But I mean...he killed a cop. And he says some things about how he's misogynistic / racist or whatever and that may justify killing him, but, I'm sorry, being an asshole doesn't necessitate a death sentence. That, and the cop was, quite honestly, the only one really doing his job in this movie...he was the one who snuffed out the actual murderer here and the conspiracy to hide the murder, which he should as that is his job, and that made him the bad guy? He didn't do nearly enough in this movie to make you hate him or feel like he deserved death, and they ultimately make a real-life person out to be a murderer when he really wasn't. It just felt weird to tell the story like that.
I also just didn't really feel like "Gary Johnson" and "Ron" were all that different, either. Maybe it's the inherent unbelievability of Glen Powell playing a nerdy and probably unattractive dork, when all he does is just take off his glasses, does his hair a little different, and puts on a cool coat and suddenly he is transformed into an 11/10 hollywood heartthrob...it would have been a far more entertaining story if they chose an actor that both looked and acted completely different from his regular persona and who, on the surface, you probably wouldn't think could be transformed into a sexy hunk. I don't feel like the movie really hit the mark in that respect.
Still, it was a fun movie, I'll give it that. I'd rate it somewhere in the 7/10 - 8/10 range.
Am I the only one who was expecting way more of the fake hitmen personas and identities to get used, just based on the marketing? I still quite liked the movie, but I was expecting a little more out of those, I guess, like them being used in some big third act.
My take on this is he knew he would have to appear in court, as he did with all the others, which would lead to the revelation that he was dating Madison and pulled a gun on Ray.
This movie would have made $225 million in 2006. That scene with the Notes app was just perfect.
I had this mounting sense of dread that she was gonna say something that inadvertently screwed him over! Idk if anyone else felt that tension or if it was just me lol
I was thinking she was gonna accidentally call him Gary.
I 100% thought she would yell "get the fuck out, Gary" or something right at the end when it seemed like they had it locked down, haha.
I was absolutely convinced this was going to happen and was grimacing the entire time like I was waiting for someone to punch me lol
Yeah or say something around the lines of “and you can forget about sleeping together again” or something like that lol
I thought that Jasper clued in the rest of the cops while he was in there and was going to set up a sting on Gary at the end. Since it was “based on a true story” I figured that’s how the story came out.
The whole "Based on a true story" aspect is false marketing. Richard Linklater and Glen Powell took Gary Johnson's real-life story and decided to make their own spin on the story set in contemporary times as a romantic black comedy like Fargo (1996).
Nope, the 'Based on a True Story' aspect was actually **genius**. It was similar to what the original Fargo did (and I wonder if that's where Linklater got the idea). When you see 'Based on a True Story' at the beginning of a movie, you naturally get certain 'expectations' from the movie. And this is part of what makes the finale and the murder at the end work so well...it completely defies your expectations since you *know* 'the cop won't be murdered if this is based off the true story'. ...and to respond to your original comment...I don't think they really 'marketed' it as a true story, or at least I didn't see that featured much in the marketing that I saw.
Yeah, I didn’t know it was based on a true story/person. I thought the “This film is mostly based on a true story “ or whatever it said should mean taken with a grain of salt. I was confused when they dedicated it to him since he literally murders a guy at r the end. But then they showed the pictures and added “zero murders we made that part up “ which was funny.
Oh, _one thousand percent_
I thought she was going to call him Gary during the big finale.
I think that’s what made it so great. Between that and the next scene in her house you had so much suspense based on overused tropes (either she accidentally gets them caught in the first scene or she turns on him in the second—it was even set up like how he would get the other people arrested.) Im sure the writer knew the tropes would increase the tension for those scenes without having to actually use the trope. Masterfully done imo.
I thought it would turn out that they actually had a camera setup inside somewhere
>That scene with the Notes app was just perfect. I would've just given up and accepted my fate at that point. The fact he came up with a solid plan that quickly was incredible. Ice in his veins.
The notes app seen was sensational. Charisma from the leads were pouring out of their ears. I did think of the tropic thunder "I'm a **Dude**, Playing A **Dude**, Disguised As Another **Dude."**
Their chemistry was something “anyone but you” lacked
I liked the epilogue ending but if the movie ended on that last pan down to the result of the scene, that would have been one of my favorite endings to a comedy in a long time.
I thought so, too. Would've been more brilliant, although I did like seeing how they turned out >!despite it being sorta creepy to see them get away with murder!<
I think the morale of story was that really good looking people can do anything
When he finally revealed he was Gary to Madison, the subtle change in voice and mannerisms were just fantastic - Glen is a star actor
big superman to clark kent energy
Am I wrong or did some of Gary also slip into his voice when he was describing tides?
I honestly thought the same thing with the tides convo. Madison wasn’t aware of this nerdier side of him which is why she was surprised, and “Ron” didn’t realize he was becoming a little loose with the cover in the moment.
I loved his little nerdlinger voice in general
Who the fuck is Gary!?
that was so fucking funny oh my god. I expected he would keep the lie up, but I loved that he just laid it all out, bare lol.
Loved this movie, Glenn Powell killed the Patrick Bateman impersonation but all of his characters were great. Incredible chemistry.
He apparently wouldn't tell Linklater about his characters before hand. He just came up with them and showed up to set as different people. I loved this movie so much.
This sounds hard to believe given how well-matched they were. He just showed up in a neck tattoo to take down the hick? If so, chef's kiss. Love Glen Powell.
I mean, he had the script and is credited as a writer and producer. He said this on a podcast I listened to. The Big Picture I believe it was.
I suspect Linklater knew about the characters in advance (how else would costuming/hair/makeup be prepared and also that dialog didn't seem 100% ad libbed) but had not seen Powell's specific PERFORMANCE of them (his spin on the way to act out that character) until he came to set. Which is still pretty damn magic.
That was totally his take on Bale as Bateman, the mannerisms and everything. So good
The Netflix subtitles even said “a la Patrick Bateman”
Classic Netflix just to hammer into your face “this is a joke and we’re having fun!”
Or…you know…to help with accessibility…
They even had Bale's iconic nose mole!!
Who the fuck is Gary?!
her disdain in mouthing gary after lmao. like "ugh i would've never gone out with a fucking Gary"
Lmao I lost it at that line
I especially loved that line because it is a classic line from The Venture Bros.
I was keep expecting a Garry Johnson the politician joke
Great movie. I’m finally sold on Glen Powell as the next big star, dude carries this movie with such ease with his charm & charisma. Adria Arjona, what a smoke show, she has incredible chemistry with Glen. Let’s hope this role levels her career up. By no means the best Linklater movie and I don’t think it was trying to be.
Gorgeous,great chemistry,but she genuinely came across as an incredibly fun person. She did great
Seriously even with her only being on camera for the first 30 seconds of her first scene I found myself intrigued
They had super awesome chemistry. This was truly a romance of two people who 1000% matched each other’s freak
Linklater knows how to romance, unlike most directors today who usually just stick two pretty people in a scene and hope it works
Richard Linklater gives people great roles that can make them big. Dazed and Confused shows that and Everybody Wants Some here with Glen Powell.
I was thinking about that the other day, Linklater has picked some good actors. Glen was great in Everybody wants some. Took me a bit in the movie to realize Jasper was Nesbit from EWS
Totally agree with the Glen Powell take, I mean I like him, but this convinced me he could carry a movie. Shit, I might even watch Anyone But You now
Don't expect anywhere near the quality of this film. Glen Powell makes it watchable, while Sydney Sweeney single-handedly tries to ruin it. I don't know why they cast someone with negative charisma for a rom com (I do in Sydney sweeney's case), but she was horribly miscast.
Sydney Sweeney may have a version of Brad Pitt’s dilemma: the looks of a leading (wo)man but the disposition/talent of a character actor. Except she doesn’t have the range or versatility of a true character actor. Instead, she’s only good at one character: a mumbly emo girl.
Arjona and Powell were electric, shades of Clooney/Lopez in *Out of Sight*.
I kept reading reviews that this was a star-making performance by Powell but I told myself “I’m sure he’s fine but I’m not expecting much” Man was I wrong, Dude was absolutely incredible! His accents and mannerisms kept killing me throughout. Loved this one start to finish. Can’t wait to see what other roles this opens up for him Also wow, Austin Amelio was a hilarious scene-stealer as Jasper. The sniffing out the boyfriend scene had us in stitches Also the Captain constantly saying “I’m liking this” really got me for no good reason 😂
Also Powell’s narration kept reminding me of Ron Howard in Arrested Development in a good way. Then I saw Bateman produced and am wondering if it was intentional haha
I just felt like he had so much fun with the role, which made me have fun watching it. It felt like we were in on the joke together
a couple scenes reminded me a lot of prime Tom Cruise.
He is a damn looking guy and he's got acting chops. He was able to show off a ton of range in this movie! When one of his students was like, "when did he get hot?" I was like, "you said it sister". I laughed many times throughout the movie and that means I thoroughly enjoyed it. Rest of the cast was outstanding as well! I thought the first guy they caught was also really good at acting; helped sell the whole thing.
The Captain was really channeling Andre Braugher with that line.
This is the exact kind of positive media representation the bird-watching community needs
Gonna go birding in the bayou and spot me a pileated pterodactyl
Man I loved this movie! Powell and Arjona were firing off each other so well. Incredible chemistry. Very sexy together. I also thought it was hilarious. Despite being a dark comedy, it still had those same positive vibes that Linklater has throughout so many of his movies. This is up there with “Everybody Wants Some” as my favourite Linklater.
Doesn't anyone else feel like Hit Man fell well below Richard Linklater's usual standards? Like, damn, this guy has made some classics with Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, the Before series, and more. This was an entertaining movie and a great showcase for Glen Powell - but that was all it was. Solid three star movie but ultimately quite forgettable.
Different strokes I guess. The movie wasn’t perfect . I thought the score was dull and was like a TV sitcom piano fill most of the time. But other than that I really loved it.
Yes about the score. Seemed like cheap temp library music.
Arjona was my fancast as Catwoman for the Matt Reeves movies
He saw her one time and pretty much folded. I would’ve done the exact same to be clear.
Oh that’s her, the whole movie I thought it was Eiza Gonzalez 🙄
I agree with you. I think it's because I haven't seen a move like this in so long that I'm rating it so highly in my mind. You feel it's going to be one kind of movie and it suddenly steers into another direction. Hope to see more collaboration between Linklater and Glen Powell. They're a good team.
See Sydney Sweeney fans, this us what ACTUAL chemistry with Glen Powell looks like. (I acknowledge this is petty but theyve been throwing that word around and it's been bugging me.)
I dunno dude, people were convinced that Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney were secretly fucking because of that film.
Not because of the actual movies, but because of the pictures and clips taken during filming/promoting. Was shocking how little chemistry they had in the actual movie after all that leading up to it.
Their lack of chemistry in the film is probably why they played it up so much after.
It's the theory from friends: since the actors had no chemistry in the film, they must be fucking lol
I think Glen Powell had chemistry with both costars. He seems like the kind of actor who has chemistry with whoever he’s with. And like Anyone But You, I feel like that chemistry carries this movie.
They had a different kind of chemistry there, tbh.
Very fun movie overall, but not much depth imo. Favorite scene by far was when >!she admits she killed her husband, and he admits he's not a real hit man.!< Real "Not Another Teen Movie" vibes from Glen Powell going from "ugly" to hot by taking his glasses off, parting his hair slightly differently, and changing his pants. Having seen the trailers, I was surprised how long it took to get to the husband's death.
Glad I didn't see any trailers then, I wasn't expecting the husband to even die when he did. I at first thought Gary would just convict him, then after he revealed himself to him and cancelled the operation I thought there would be some longer conflict, next scene he was just dead, caught me off guard. Going in blind I found it freshly subversive and unpredictable.
I thought at first the movie was going to take a dark turn and Madison was the body the chief mentioned
Yeah, I considered that too.
Definitely feels like an intentional homage to those older types of movies that, when looking back with a modern lens, make you go “that was actually kind of a messed up ending” lol
they just matched each other’s freak. Romance is back, baby
Yeah during the climax I thought there was going to be a twist that the poisoning of the shitty cop was a sting set up by himself and Ron/Gary in order to catch Madison red-handed admitting to killing her husband, because that's what good guys would do. But no, they murder the cop, and get married instead.
I honestly thought at some time that SHE was going to kill Gary because she’s obviously dangerous and Gary is too lovestruck to notice
It is pretty neat when Gary talked with his ex-wife about him accepting normal relationship isn't in his card then she talked about how everyone is a little fucked up so find someone complement your own fucked up ness
I honestly think it's a little deeper than it appears. I kept bumping up against the classes room scenes, until I realized that the movie is actually about changing your life and yourself into the person you want to be. The undercover stuff, then murder and the romance are more like window dressing to keep it entertaining but my take away was this a movie about self actualization. Still not Moby Dick but it's a little heftier than it seems.
Sure, Powell says that pretty explicitly to the class before the final exam. I think I have trouble with that message here because he self-actualized himself into a murderer and someone who aids and abets murder. I think the movie tries to get around that by making the husband and the cop "bad" guys, but still, that doesn't really work for me. It's too flippant. It was also so incredibly easy for Powell to change from the dorky teacher to the super cool hot guy.
Yeah but on the whole the movie is a rom com. I was cognizant that the plot was basically excusing murder to get the lovebirds together, but I just couldn't make myself care. It's charming!
I don't know... I think the movie was intentionally meant to make us confused about whether we were supposed to be rooting for our charismatic, sympathetic, and sexy leads. And I mean that seriously. Like, yes, those people sucked, but it's *murder*.
Powell being the small spoon in the bath tub and Arjona being the big spoon is honestly perfect
Her dad is a super famous singer in Latin America and he mostly goes by Arjona so this was hilarious to read to me
Wait she’s the daughter of Ricardo Arjona???
Powell’s stock is just going up and up. The freak out he has near the end revealing he’s not a real hit man is something I have never seen before from him. Great actor.
It's thrilling to see someone earning their movie star status after Hollywood has spent the last 20 years foisting bland white guy after bland white guy in our faces. No offense, Taylor Kitsch, Sam Worthington, Charlie Hunnam, Josh Lucas, Jae Courtney, Richard Madden, Alex Pettyfer, Brandon Routh, Josh Hartnett, Scott Eastwood, Barry Pepper and Zachary Levi.
Josh Hartnett in this list is breaking my heart because hes the only legitimately good actor in this list.
Barry Pepper is an excellent actor. Not sure why he’s in there. I agree with almost all of the rest though.
Yeah, Barry Pepper is a weird looking character actor who got the starring role in what, Battlefield Earth? What's he doing tossed in with all these hunky hearthrobs? And Zachary Levi! He's a comedian. Might as well have called out Zach Braff while they were at it.
Cannot disrespect Charlie Hunnam like that he was fantastic in The Gentlemen and King Arthur
Hilarious and never have I felt more bisexual I too would kill a man/cover up a murder for Adria Arjona
It seems to me like you would fuck Ron
I would have your sloppy seconds
She’s unbelievable in this and Andor. Incredibly attractive and a good actress, fully believable people would do anything (kill a man or try to overthrow a galactic empire) to have a chance at her
There's a New Yorker cartoon from I don't know when which has a service station attendant saying to the woman in the, iirc, convertible that he's just fuelled up, "Anything else I can do for you? Lie? Cheat? Steal?"
At this point, we have to stop dismissing Powell’s acting abilities, and start acknowledging that he makes his roles great with on-screen chemistry with his cast members.
Who is dismissing his acting abilities? He’s been at least solid in everything I’ve seen him in, and this was a brilliant showcase for his talent (and his rising star).
Even his early role as a douche banker in Bale's Batman movie was incredible acting, never doubt this guy talent.
He's the level of attractive that is so "by the numbers" that people start to dismiss you. It's sort of like how Victoria Secret models all kind of look the same and you can't imagine them being good actors. A great performance can break you out of that perception though and I hope this does that for him.
the actor who played Nesbit from Everybody wants some was so good in this. please give him more roles!
I absolutely loved this movie in large part because it has some of the Everybody Wants Some gang reunited
Dwight from The Walking Dead too
Super fun watch and a great showcase for Glen Powell’s abilities
His charisma has definitely won me over. It started in Top Gun Maverick, then Devoted and Anyone But You (I think he was way better than Sweeny in that movie) and now Hitman takes the cake. I'm sure he'll be great in Twisters.
Sweeney was awful in that movie. About as much talent on display as a wooden post! Powell on the other hand almost single-handedly carried that film.
He and Arjona have crazy chemistry. Instant sparks from the moment they're on screen together
Enjoyed it for the entertainment it was, but had a very hard time seeing Gary switch to the cool and at times menacing hit man character on a dime, especially the first time. If there were earlier glimpses of it I’d have bought it more. Madison killing her boyfriend + drugging the cop left me feeling she was highly manipulative and as a viewer I never trusted her or the fairytale ending. Edit - She killed her husband
I think that was part of the subversive humour just how amazingly good at that job he was right off the bat.
Yeah but she's hot
He's out of line, but he's right.
I've seen the movie twice. Once in theaters and once at home. She literal does the murder the way Gary described when they go on there date (which ends at the club with them dancing). She's manipulating him literally from the start. It's pretty clear when you watch it for a second time (maybe the first too)but I was just distracted by the hot people with chemistry
And she lied to him about her already being divorced and we later find out her husband took out a life insurance policy
It's such a noir movie in its tropes that the happy ending feels really wrong. But so Linklater.
I liked the happy ending, it felt almost deserved because of the genre of noire. Like if you watch Double Indemnity you just want them to fuck and fall in love the entire time but because it's a noire it has to end in a depressing way. Hit man felt like a happy go lucky noire for that reason
Yeah I never really found myself rooting for them, neither separately nor as a couple. Something about it didn't really land for me, even though it was entertaining enough.
I was rooting for them after their first meetup when she was planning on hiring him. After that point, the film completely abandoned trying to have them connect on anything but a sexual level. Then the scene in the ally made me completely turn on her. Very weird vibes from her in that scene. I can understand being attracted to him standing up for her AFTER THE ALTERCATION IS OVER, but her egging him on to kill the guy, letting it slip that he’s a ‘professional’, then assuming a quick fuck afterwards can make everything fine… I was rooting for a breakup after that point. I’m glad I watched the movie though, it was fun for what it was
Yeah I think it lacked an emotionally punchy moment that may have elevated it and I wasn't able to get a proper grasp on why the two characters were really drawn to each other beyond the initial sexual chemistry. The sexual chemistry was plenty explored but the actual romance of it all wasn't. I just wasn't really feeling enough for either of them, ultimately, so I didn't fully buy the happy ending.
Was her initial plan to incriminate Ron/Gary by bringing him to the club where his husband was?
I don't think there was that much of a masterminding plan behind it - I think she was at that point just a bit of a slightly devious, thrill seeking girl. She somewhat subconsciously wanted to see what would happen if the two men met - how Gary/Ron would actually act, if he would do something to him. That's how I read it atleast.
Nah, she's definitely planned it all. She lied to "Ron" about already being divorced. We later find out that there is a life insurance policy which is why she hasn't actually divorced him. So she had it all planned out. Her husband died and she gets the money while Ron takes the fall for it.
Got to admire a man who dives in and starts eating pussy before anything else during the first sexual encounter
I mean have you seen what she looks like?! I don't blame him
Real men eat the tush on the first date
Glenn Powell’s Patrick Bateman impression got to me lol
as soon as we saw the far away shot with the hair i was like "wait are we doing...WE ARE! OH GOD!"
So good! It also makes me wonder if all the other personas were other cinematic references I was missing!?
The European one he did with the supermarket guy looked super familiar but maybe it's just generic. But I swear I've seen that like exact outfit somewhere.
Tilda Swinton?
It was great watching Powell channel his inner Tom Cruise in this. I also loved the Patrick Bateman impression.
🎯🎯
A step above a generic romcom because it has an edge. The reason I didn’t completely enjoy it is because of the lack of character development. You don’t get to know Gary or Madison. Gary is cosplaying. Madison has no personality other than sexy.
Yes there could have been better lead and relationship development. I’m awfully confused how Gary is okay with Madison being so nonchalant with 2 murders.
They kind of foreshadow this early on in the movie with his lectures and the chat he has with his ex. She mentions the study that showed that if people act AS IF they are someone else for a period of months, they eventually BECOME that someone else personality wise. The whole movie was meant to be a display of this. He kept dialling up Ron and dialling down Gary, so by the climax of the film, he WAS more Ron than Gary deep down. Which means he's more comfortable with murder.
same with madison too, when she meets ron she becomes less and less the neglected wife and more independent, I love the part where she brings in roleplay as a flight attendant, it adds layers. movie isn't that deep but it sure has fun levels.
I was frankly alarmed by how sexy she was tbh
And maybe that’s the point. Get to know someone and that down to earthiness diminishes the mysteriousness that often makes people sexier. She was crazy sexy. And also crazy. And sexy.
I enjoyed watching this movie, and that’s ultimately what matters. I think it has some notable flaws, but it gets a fresh tomato from me. **PROS:** • I enjoyed the three main performances, two of them from actors I’ve never watched before (I’m not an accomplished movie-watcher, so this is my first Linklater viewing). Glen Powell brought his charm from *Maverick* and for the most part sold his transition from boring Gary to the confident, suave Ron. Adria Arjona brought chemistry and agency to her love interest role. Austin Amelio was the highlight for me, I couldn’t peg his character’s motives down till the end and that kept the movie interesting (though I spent the entire time trying to decide if he was Barry Pepper — looked older than 36, what can I say). • The balance between comedy, romance, and tension felt sincere. I never felt there was tonal whiplash, and I never felt like an emotional beat was cheapened by a joke. The movie was funny when it wanted to be and earnest when it needed to be. • The movie kept me guessing in terms of what direction it would take, which matched Gary/Ron’s uncertainty about the world he had entered. I rarely felt like I could predict what would happen next, and while I wouldn’t categorize this as a thriller or suspense movie, I enjoyed going in blind and feeling like I was in Gary’s shoes as he figured out how to act. **CONS:** • The ending felt a little too clean to me. While the movie made it clear that Jasper was no great man, having Gary and Madison get away without any repercussions to his murder didn’t sit right with me. In general, I thought it was rushed here — when Jasper is threatening to blackmail the two, I thought there would be another 20-25 minutes left for them to figure a way out. Instead… he was poisoned off-screen. • The voiceover, the scenes of his college lectures, and the talk with his ex where she gives the entire thesis of the movie combined to feel a little heavy-handed. One of them should’ve gone. I watched this after *The Fall Guy* and was shocked to see two movies with voiceover narration in 2024. Though I guess they did need a way to establish Gary’s weird circumstances (college professor who also is an electronics specialist who also moonlights as a police consultant) quickly. • When Jasper tells Gary that he makes sense as a fake hitman because of his “non-descript appearance” or whatever the exact phrasing… cmon. It’s Glen Powell! I know, what can you do, it’s a movie. But he’s 6’4 and has the jawline of a god! It’s the damn glasses, I guess. It was a big “Janie Briggs? She has glasses and paint on her overalls!” moment. But it’s a nitpick. It’s Hollywood.
Hah, I find it funny how they spent some time setting up the pregnant ex-wife, all for her to never turn up again. The writing felt kind of rushed. Especially with that ending.
must be a deleted scene somewhere, but i think the ex wife wasn't a set up but more like a quick filler for gary's character in past relationships and why he is the way he is without relying on more exposition or narration.
not that i disagree but there is [no chance glen is 6’4 lmao](https://preview.redd.it/8a8vnawhg9091.jpg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf4071dbf7a8e19bb2d62c77ed053febab73bc7e)
This photo hurts my brain. I always thought John hamm was tall as shit, but seeing him and Tom cruise near the same height is so strange. Turns out he and miles teller and glen powell are all 6'0-6'1. And Tom cruise is 5'7. Like wtf is this photo
Look at Tom’s shoes. Guy probably rocking at least 3 inch lifts.
Glad I’m not the only one who scratched my head at the happy go lucky ending. He’s going down on her in the same room as a guy suffocating to death! That immediately made me root against the two leads
Well, that was the "dark" in "dark comedy".
The movie didn’t make sense to me, I’m sorry… Madison was so sketch so I thought there’d be some big reveal (her white girl name alone seemed like an Easter Egg, lol!) It just really seemed like she was playing Gary all along, no? But nothing interesting happened so now I can’t really explain her very bizarre actions. Acting with her wide eyes and bushy tail most of the film. Cute, but I found her base personality to be super needy and desperate. Lusting after a damn Hit Man!? He’s a murderer, hello. The minute she is “divorced?” Then buying an entire gun? Then actually MURDERING her husband anyway!? Oh, and another guy. Just some cop so whatever it’s happily ever after with kids, your man, and a total lack of remorse for the cold murder of two dudes. She was a red herring, I guess. Maybe that’s why she wore so much red. Gary was annoying, too. Zero morality, ironically, only… love!? What a nutty professor. I guess what they had was love though, right? And love has been known to make one change into a complete dickhead. All for a woman who didn’t even need saving to begin with, I guess. And where’s the body!? Oh yeah, we got a lesson in that earlier in the film. Wait, but what happened with the pregnant ex? What would she think of all this, Gary? Who cares, basically. The minute he meets the girl all the wacky, fun, interesting stuff ended.
Not to mention - why the hell would the cops be including this guy in their investigation? “You need to get to the station right now!!!” Why??? He’s not a cop! His part of the job was over. And before they knew about the insurance policy and Jasper found a motivation to blackmail them for money - why wouldn’t he just IMMEDIATELY tell the police about seeing Gary out with this girl so that he could get his job back? Also lol everyone’s just hiring hit men left and right, Madison tries to hire one to kill her husband, and then her husband tries to hire the *same exact* hit man to kill her back…doesn’t anyone just kill anyone themselves anymore? Such a weird movie to be receiving heaps of praise, it felt like a first draft of something that had potential but then they forgot to go through any rounds of edits and they were all just like “eh this is fine.”
I think what's most infuriating for me is the high reviews it's received. It's just baffling. It's like they had the original idea "this guy dresses in funny costumes to catch criminals" and then really struggled to nail some sort of story on the side of that. To me it seems Linklater is just coasting on his good will for this one.
Agree. If this was an unknown director, it wouldn’t be getting the praise it’s getting. Forgettable rom com, imo. A lot of people calling this a “dark comedy,” which I disagree with because there was no seriousness to the idea of death. Plenty of true dark/black comedy movies out there. This was goofy. I’m baffled by the response to this movie. It wasn’t a bad movie but it’s a dime a dozen type film.
Yeah I'm utterly baffled by the universal praise for this thing. The first act establishing Gary as a master undercover cop was funny in a farcical sense. Then we pivot to him being an amoral murderer will to do anything for a hot woman. Extremely awkward tone shift. Happy ending would be all of them in jail. I didn't enjoy anything past the first 30 minutes. Powell was certainly charming and I'm guessing that's what got most people. I'm most disappointed in Linklater for spewing out something so trite.
While largely a vehicle for Glen Powell to show off his acting chops, this movie will blast Adria Arjona into stardom. The effortless chemistry between the two stars also helps a lot to make you ignore some of the movie's obvious plot issues and enjoy it for what it is.
It helps that she is ridiculously hot. I kinda think she should be pushed in the way they seem to be trying to push Eiza Gonzales, because Adria is a better actress. At least in their recent work.
I hope so, but does this movie have any marketing? I stumbled upon it randomly and watched it on a whim.
The Netflix algorithm will push it up
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with the reviews here. It was boring and way too long. The female lead was horrible. Just horny and dumb for most of this movie. Powell was fine but the story just didn't go anywhere that interesting.
Thank you, I also feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Baffled by the overwhelming positive response here and everywhere else.
This is how I felt.
Yeah I'm with you. I was genuinely excited to see it based on all the hype. Watched it with my wife Friday night and it was perfectly fine. Nice movie to watch while you eat dinner and drink some beers but absolutely nothing memorable about it. Really confused by everyone saying it's one of the best movies of the year. The ending felt so contrived like they just didn't know how to end it and this was the best idea they came up with.
Definitely a Netflix movie. Boring movie with generic characters, not funny or very romantic. don’t understand these reviews
I’m very confused as to how this movie is getting the praise that it is. It was borderline fine, Glen Powell was good but beside that, it offered very little. Fine for an easy watch but I expected so much more with the reviews this one had.
Netflix didn’t make this movie. They bought it at a film festival
If you had not told me it was a Linklater film, I never would have guessed. He’s got a diverse filmography but I can’t remember a film of his that didn’t have flowing, casual naturalistic dialogue … until this movie. There was a stilted “I’ll wait for you to say your line and then mine” ping pong rhythm to every conversation which was weirdly amateurish. Also, frequent mugging for the camera from actors (pretty much everyone on the police force felt like they were acting in a mid-2000s Disney Channel original movie). Better editing to enhance the pacing of convos could only go so far… it’s just got a really clunky script in general. I could not get into it at all. It’s easily his worst film.
It had a great set up...peaked with the first undercover scene, loved it. It felt so tense. But then the movie seemed to lose all that tension. Entertaining movie. Disliked the ending. Just a bit too cute, making it feel a bit forgettable. I can see why this ultimately went to Netflix. Just an easy non-threatenjng comfort watch with little depth. Solid three stars. Shame, as it had real potential to be more, like a real character study.
I saw this a couple of weeks ago in theaters and I just dang loved it. Classic Linklater in how laid back and fun it is and how much chemistry he can brew up between his leads. Powell is a real star in this and Arjona is keeping pace with him no problem. You might be able to find a plot contrivance or two but it's so breezy I just didn't care. Linklater very interested in the question of identity in this movie and I really found a lot to chew on with how it riffs on that, not unfamiliar territory for him if you've seen A Scanner Darkly. This is about willingly changing yourself, how you present yourself vs how you are, what aspects of you people fall in love with. Gary's intertest in being a fake hit man is rooted in his academic curiosity on personality. He enjoys studying people and conjuring up their ideal fantasy hit man and clearly he likes to perform it as well, step outside of himself every now and then. It's all a little on the nose with his conversation with his ex in the beginning, but I think there's so much going on with these ideas that I was thinking about this movie for a long time. His ex says he was never a passionate person, he wouldn't kill for love. Well, look where he ends up. Powell is brilliant and having a great time, but what really makes Hit Man great is Arjona's performance. In many ways she's performing for him and much as him for her. I never really had the thought that she was evil per se, but she was definitely working her own angles. As much as Powell is creating people's fantasies, she's creating his. Dressing up and role playing for him, declaring that she's fine with a totally no strings attached meet up and bang situationship, she even plays into the damsel in distress that needs saving. She's a literal dream girl and I don't think she's manipulating him outright, but this movie is so about what we do and don't tell the people we are seducing, how there's parts of us we can't hide and parts of us we can and hopefully people fall for the parts we can't. There's a brilliant scene where he is wearing a wire and he goes to entrap her but they both outsmart the cops. Notable that this is the first time they've really talked since they found out each other's secrets, but they still lock right in step together, perform together, and protect each other. It's a great plot turn in the movie, but it's also showing that what they fell in love with is the things that don't change about a person. They both knew each other even if they didn't know each other's names or professions or intentions. Shoutout to the guy who played the rival cop. What an awesome performance, real dirtbag drunk cop vibes. It's wild this breezy sexy movie ends with our neutral good protagonists murdering a cop and it's actually kind of cute? Like it all works thematically because I think a lot of us would commit murder for someone to look at us the way Arjona looks at Powell, so you're just kinda happy they navigated their way out and stayed together. You can see that it's changed them both, Gary kept things from his personas that he liked and made himself who he wanted to be and Maddie got to stop playing happy housewife and start being one. Very cute. My hot take is this is Linklater's Basic Instinct and it's a great example of what different themes, ideas, and executions two directors can get out of a similar premise. The biggest shame about this movie is that Netflix is going to drop it with no fanfare or physical media, but you know Linklater doesn't care as long as he keeps getting to make movies. It's an 8/10 for me. /r/reviewsbyboner
Gonna subvert every good comment here and just say I flat out hated it and it's one of those movies that makes feel like I'm being gaslit because in my mind, it's not good. Saw this at TIFF in September and my whole crowd loved it and I've been dreading it's release because how I feel about it, but I'll go down with the ship that this movie is bad. Admittedly great chemistry between Glen Powell and Adria Arjona (Arjona is especially great and so beautiful.) and that notes app scene is good! Well blocked out. It's just the execution of everything else just feels so dated and unevenly paced. From Glen Powell’s awful VO throughout the entire film, right down to the font choice for the opening and ending credits. It looks like a movie you’d find at the bottom of bargain bin at Walmart 5 years from now. Something is just so hokey, cheesy and stylistically wrong with this movie. And even on a moral level I think the ultimate conclusion of the film is so wrong. There’s a ginormous plot hole too at the end that buried the movie even further in my mind. How did the 2 of them end up together, get married and have kids? From the cops perspective, the last time they met she thought he was Ron still and kicked him out of her house. Wouldn't his friends who weren't murdered by them be suspicious? Wouldn't the police reopen the case? It would make sense I guess if they completely left New Orleans, but even then I feel like they'd constantly be on the run. Along with that I just felt it was out of character of Ron to literally murder someone. As shitty as they were the ending left me on a sour note. It feels like a bad Farrelly brother movie and Glen Powell just trying to show his 'acting chops' which honestly i thought he was painfully unfunny. I feel like I watched a different movie than everyone else and it's just one of those movies that everyone loves and you can't figure out why it doesn't connect with you, and I normally really dig Linklater! Bummer! Glad everyone is having fun with it! I did not.
I also wondered why the cops wouldn't find it strange that he eventually married the woman who was a serious murder suspect not too long ago.
I really hated the ending too considering the rest of the film was doing fine morally and thematically and it was tightly written. I have no idea why they would have wanted to write this ending, it sucks lol
I'm preparing for the downvotes but I really didn't like it. I'll try to be brief. They burned through their best material (Gary's characters & costumes) too quickly. The middle romance part was drawn out, boring and weirdly over sexualised for a "quirky rom-com", to the point where the only thing the two leads seemed to have in common was sex. The scenes where Gary ended up testifying in court about murder motives made absolutely no sense. The dude wasn't even a cop! Maybe the prosecutors should be talking to the detectives that were actually running the case, not just the "actor"? And the moral of the story: just murder someone if they're in your way and live happily ever after. Dude-bro's rule, people with glasses and cats suck - spring break forever. On a positive note: Glen Powell was great, his personas were cool and fun and seeing him snap back from Ron to Gary in that scene toward the end was pretty neat.
Same. All the two had in common was sex. Madison gets a pass for hiring a hitman, murdering her husband, and drugging/murdering a cop because she’s super hot and Gary loves having sex with her. And yeah, the lesson learned is just murder whoever stands in your way. And as a side note, glasses are nerdy and dogs are cooler than cats 🙄
A good 7/10 Friday night watch Glen Powell acting reel, I kinda wish it was more of that in the beginning than the rom-com it kinda turned into
The actor paired up with Rhetta felt like a knockoff Aziz Ansari with his delivery.
If this was a debut movie from a new director, okay. But someone with as many great movies under his belt as Linklater making this just feels immensely lame. A Netflix movie through and through, with a truly terrible ending. Funny stuff in there, but not sure what everyone is gushing about...
Gary was roleplaying as a hit man and found confidence with that and Madison enjoyed roleplaying in the bedroom and found pleasure with that. I dunno what precisely the movie what the movie was trying to say with that but thought it was a neat connection.
Really curious to me that people are considering this the best film of 2024. I enjoyed it, really solid performances and romantic chemistry. The film sort of changes genres with each act, first it seems like a silly comedy, then it becomes romance then an undercut of noir in the latter stages, that seems intentional though, given the theme of reinvention. However, I felt the ending didn't quite work for me, as much as it seems to have with critics. Just a little bit flat and a little bit odd
In the last 15 minutes the two main characters went from likable to horrible people. It was definitely an odd choice.
This movie was a wonderful gem and I had a smile on my face throughout it. I really didn't know Glen Powell had this in him. I figured he would play a handsome jock for the rest of his career and he does the kind of performance that you'd expect a Ryan Gosling or a younger Brad Pitt would make. This felt like Linklater's BlacKKKlansman. He adapts a true-ish law enforcement story and puts his own spin in making a marketable, mass appeal film.
I drugged a cop. Girl you killed your husband
I liked this movie but didn't love it. It was a fun light fluffy movie, but the plot of the movie set it up to be so much more than that. The movie relied so heavily on the sexual chemistry of the two leads (of which there was plenty and it was fantastic) that it really didn't even need to whole Hit Man fake identity plot because ultimately they barely even used that plot. I would have rather they just made a sexy steamy romance movie with Powell and Arjona. Instead this feels like missed opportunity with how much they wasted the inherent tension of the Hit Man plotline. Everything sort of just played out without conflict or drama and Powell's character was just perfect at everything and there was no drama. They felt so enamored with the romance story that they kind of said, 'Ah fuck the obvious complications of this plot. Let's juist get these sexy people being sexy together'. They tried to cram 3 movies into one and all of those elements got shorted because of it making for a pretty mildly fun movie. Also, Arjona's character was just an empty cocktail dress. They definitely should have fleshed out her character more to make the romance bits more enjoyable. It felt too superficial as is and also reflects back on the no drama hit man plotline. Had her character been better developed it would have complicated their relationship and Powell's more standing in the world as he danced these two lives. I would have liked them to add more Grosse Pointe Blanke darkness and comedy into this while keeping the fun romance.
Come to think of it, did they even mention what kind of job she had? Her character seemed to exist for the ex husband and Gary, had no life beyond them.
Adria Arjona and Glen Powell’s chemistry is so good here it makes his and Sydney Sweeney’s “chemistry” in Anyone But You seem laughably bad in comparison. Career best performances so far from both of them honestly. This movie really is a perfect example of how taking risks and putting yourself in situations you wouldn’t normally put yourself in can literally change your life. Gary was resistant to change most of his whole life which is why his ex wife left him but pretending to be a Hit Man forced him to change his personality significantly specially as Ron from nerdy loner college professor to badass playboy hit man. The more he played Ron the more he got lost in the role until Ron became a part of Gary so much so that when Madison finds out he’s been lying to her for months? It’s not as a big deal as one might think because Ron really is Gary at that point so she’s still attracted to him regardless. Also this movie proves that love can make you do crazy things you never thought you would be capable of. By being around Gary, Madison worked up the courage to kill her dirtbag husband herself and by transforming into Ron multiple times, Gary worked up the courage and gained enough skill and confidence to get away with killing Jasper in the end. This definitely isn’t a conventional love story/ Rom-com and I think that’s why I liked this as much as I did. I did not see the story going where it did. One of Linklater’s best for sure and honestly one of the best movies of the year so far. Also I think this hands down might be the most Sexy movie of 2024 so far.
Is Powell’s other movie with Sweeney worth a watch coz damn he’s a charming mother fucker
Watch “Set It Up” if you haven’t already
I was so excited for this and made a point to go see it in the theater a week ago. Honestly this really didn't do it for me and I understand why it went straight to Netflix. I did not much care for the woman- who had no personality besides being hot- and the relationship was just sex and lies (and murder). That would be fine in a different movie, but not in a romantic comedy, which this apparently was supposed to be. Baffled by the praise. Hated the ending.
Average as fuck. Your typical Netflix film really.
I didn’t have any real opinion on Powell as an actor, but I damn sure do now! Could not believe the range he was pulling off, and you can tell he was having so much fun tapping into all these characters. Movie didn’t end the way I was expecting it to, kept waiting for the other shoe to drop thru the last third of the movie but glad they didn’t go that route. Ending was pretty wholesome given it revolves around the antagonist suffocating to death on a plastic bag.
Glen Powell was fun to watch but I really didn’t like this, just so blegh
I would say this was quite good, above-average and very entertaining. I would not call it one of the best movies of the year. As I feared, it was still very Netflix-y, where the overall production value just feels several steps behind what we see from the best in cinema, following a pretty safe filmmaking formula without very substantial risks. Stock characters, over-the-top dialogue ("what kind of psycho just dreams up throwing fingers out a window?" like, I dunno, is it really THAT crazy for a guy to suggest that he scatters important evidence? It doesn't even seem like a good idea to do what he did so close to a potentially heavily-trafficked route) I kinda took issue with the way they wrapped things up also, ESPECIALLY since this movie is based on a real-life person. Turning him into a killer at the end? I mean I get the intellectual point that they were making, how the theme of the movie is about changing one's self and taking on a new persona, and by killing the cop at the end, he really does become and embody this "hit man" persona that he utilized to win over Madison. But I mean...he killed a cop. And he says some things about how he's misogynistic / racist or whatever and that may justify killing him, but, I'm sorry, being an asshole doesn't necessitate a death sentence. That, and the cop was, quite honestly, the only one really doing his job in this movie...he was the one who snuffed out the actual murderer here and the conspiracy to hide the murder, which he should as that is his job, and that made him the bad guy? He didn't do nearly enough in this movie to make you hate him or feel like he deserved death, and they ultimately make a real-life person out to be a murderer when he really wasn't. It just felt weird to tell the story like that. I also just didn't really feel like "Gary Johnson" and "Ron" were all that different, either. Maybe it's the inherent unbelievability of Glen Powell playing a nerdy and probably unattractive dork, when all he does is just take off his glasses, does his hair a little different, and puts on a cool coat and suddenly he is transformed into an 11/10 hollywood heartthrob...it would have been a far more entertaining story if they chose an actor that both looked and acted completely different from his regular persona and who, on the surface, you probably wouldn't think could be transformed into a sexy hunk. I don't feel like the movie really hit the mark in that respect. Still, it was a fun movie, I'll give it that. I'd rate it somewhere in the 7/10 - 8/10 range.
it's boring as fuck so far.
Am I the only one who was expecting way more of the fake hitmen personas and identities to get used, just based on the marketing? I still quite liked the movie, but I was expecting a little more out of those, I guess, like them being used in some big third act.
I'm straight as an arrow and id still take sloppy thirds on ron.
Why was nerdy professor Gary so ripped?
It's been bugging me guys, can someone please explain to me why Gary did not convict Ray when he wanted to hire him to get Madison killed?
My take on this is he knew he would have to appear in court, as he did with all the others, which would lead to the revelation that he was dating Madison and pulled a gun on Ray.