I recently enjoyed rewatching watching John Madden's doomy, hard-boiled hitman thriller 'Killshot' - Legendary scrivener Elmore Leonard's bullet-slick, corkscrew twisted tale of ice-cruel underworld justice is brought to vivid life by a tremendous cast of talented actors. Once again, hunky mancake Thomas Jane kills it as heroically stoical steelworker 'Wayne', distractingly delicious Diane Lane and her perky pistols righteously rocked my movie-muddled membrane as Wayne's estranged, shotgun-savvy wife 'Carmen', maestro Mickey Rourke took flight as weary, brawny-broody contract killer 'Bird', and a hysterically hyperactive Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes sushi outta the scenery as triumphantly tweaked, trigger-happy skell 'Richie'! While the text isn't as sharp as it should be, and poor old Rosaria Dawson seems a mite lost, there's a tantalizingly grim, Noirish bleakness to the sinister Smith & Wesson shenanigans that maintained my B-Movie interest, and the claustrophobically tense, spontaneously violent, squib-splattered finale kinda reminded me a smidgen of Eric Red's 80s classic 'Cohen & Tate', which is no bad thing, plus loopy Levitt pulls antlers off the wall wiv his bare hands, cor!, that lad just 'aint right!!???? (well, he sorta uses his feet as well, but, hey!!!!! It's still a neat-o bad guy icebreaker!)
Review of Killshot
