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Terrible movie, sends all the worst messages

posted 6 months ago by Jes' Sayin' (6375)
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Without giving away the ending, this is seriously warped and makes no sense.

On top of that, although the maie lead is fine, the female lead is miscast or something. Not believable in almost all her scenes.

The psychology lecture is wrong. The theory being given belongs to Freud, not Jung.

There was no point in making this movie. The idea that you can just do whatever you feel like regardless of laws and justice is dangerous talk, especially in these times.

3/10

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[–] Jes' Sayin' (6375) 6 months ago

When she is unable to hire someone to kill her husband, she does it herself, and later admits it to the hit man. The other police figure her as the most likely suspect so they send Gary in wearing a wire to get a confession out of her. He negates this by alerting her with his smartphone to what is happening. But the guy Gary replaced as a fake hit man figures it out and attempts to blackmail her for the million dollar insurance policy so they end up killing him, which our philosophy/psychology expert somehow justifies to himself as okay.

[–] CaptBeefBlower (267) 6 months ago

And then in a very sudden shift, the main characters are married and have a kid, and are doing normal parent things, with no baggage or consequences whatsoever from murdering two people.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6375) 6 months ago

Good point!

[–] maximmm (3343) 6 months ago

they do say they made the killing peeps part up just prior to credits.

[–] saltfat (44) 5 months ago

None of his colleagues were like, "what's Gary been up to?" - oh he's with the woman who was going to hire him as a hitman and whose husband ended up dying soon after?

I was willing to ignore that - despite his various disguises - he always looked EXACTLY the same except with different hair. But this was too much.

Ridiculous movie.

[–] bistritapcv (1843) 2 months ago

Would never fly with Hitchcock. Bad guy ALWAYS got caught

[–] moviechatterer (15697) 6 months ago

all these movies glamourising Hit men and making out it some kind of legitimate profession do that

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8719) 6 months ago

Your comment indicates that you haven't seen the film.

[–] moviechatterer (15697) 6 months ago

You surmise correctly sir.
I was speaking pretty generally of the genre , the line "a hit man of sorts for his city police department" sounds a little different from the usual setup.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8719) 6 months ago

Indeed. In the film, he's not a real hit man. He's an undercover agent who poses as a hit man in sting operations.

[–] asom (6847) 4 months ago

Funny enough in the movie he clearly states that he thinks that hitmen don't exist. That they are fictional characters glorified in movies.

[–] maximmm (3343) 6 months ago

ummm..... might wanna check up on that id ego and superego bit -

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6375) 6 months ago

The theory of the id, ego, and superego was invented by Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud introduced this structural model of the mind in his 1923 work "The Ego and the Id" ("Das Ich und das Es"). This model divides the human psyche into three parts:

1. **Id**: The part of the mind that contains our basic, instinctual drives. It operates based on the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification of its desires.

2. **Ego**: The rational part of the mind that mediates between the unrealistic id and the external real world. It operates based on the reality principle, negotiating desires and constraints.

3. **Superego**: The part of the mind that internalizes societal and parental standards of "right" and "wrong." It acts as a moral conscience and strives for perfection.

[–] TheArgentinian (7090) 6 months ago

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

[–] Ant1238 (912) 6 months ago

I kinda agree but would also make the argument that our "heroes" doing bad things and getting away with it is kinda common in black comedies. Whether you choose to root for them or not is up to you.

[–] SweetTooth43 (2050) 5 months ago

"The idea that you can just do whatever you feel like regardless of laws and justice is dangerous talk, especially in these times"
Are you serious? It's a romantic-comedy movie. Quit being such an uptight busybody.

[–] Stratego (30534) 5 months ago

I read the original article and it was 1000 times more interesting than this movie sounds. I don't get why we're supposed to root for a couple to have a happily-ever-after when they've killed multiple people for their own gain.

Also, the real life guy wasn't capable of having a succesful longterm relationship despite his charm, which I think is much more interesting. He obviously had some issues that also related to his undercover work and his interest in human psychology.