Glen Powell delivers a star-making performance!!!
Glen Powell delivers a star-making performance!!!If Anyone but You gave any indication about what a guy named Glen Powell can do, then let Hit Man be that ultimate answer to settle that once and for all. The actor gives a riotous, star-making performance in richard Linklater's new killer comedy. Our leading man is a professor teaching Nietzsche during the day when we first meet him, and in the next few moments, he moonlights as a fake hitman for hire, working for the New Orleans Work Department. From Gary Johnson to Ron, and a hundred new characters in between that keep him going, Powell powers through this film, which is in turns nihilistic and unbelievably fun. To top it off, it is also based (almost) on a true story!Gary is plain and simple, teaching philosophy at the university of New Orleans, and coming home to his cats Id and Ego. He is that person who is okay being called boring. His part time gig with the police department gets promotion when the undercover hitman in place, named Jasper (Austin Amelio), goes missing and is inevitable suspended for a case of police brutality. So Gary has to turn in as the hitman for hire for the people who would want to recruit him for the dirty job. Powell, who also shares screenwriting credits with Linklater, seems to have a ball in these early scenes where our new hitman for hire goes into full research to play a part. He constructs a different identity for each new case, and plays the fantasy of a hitman that would be the best suited for a client.The stakes of this truly implausible premise take a complicated turn when he meets the beautiful but terrified Madison (Adria Arjona), who wants to hire him to kill her husband. She's so preyed upon that she can barely eat the pie on the table without apologizing. Her husband has ķept her on this diet, she says. He lets her go, taken in by her naked honesty. This flip in the regular course of his life pushes the mood into uncharted territory.