In the grand tradition of movies such as “Snatch” and “Pulp
Fiction” this film ranks among the best. With a bit of satire and plenty of
sharp tongue in cheek wit, two young hit women; Violet, played by Alexis
Biedel; and Daisy, played by Saoirse Ronan; decide to take on one more job
before beginning a long overdue vacation.
But when their mutual idol; Barbie Sunday; releases a new
fashion line the two women decide to take on the job they initially refused,
all in order to buy themselves two new dresses. What happens next defies all
logic yet somehow seems as if it could really happen that way. Well, maybe.
When the girls arrive to make their hit, they find the
intended target all too willing to meet his fate. This intrigues them and they
are hooked on finding out why. Of course this humanizes the target, played by
James Gandolfini, making it all that much harder to kill him.
To complicate matters even more, there is another hit team
on the way to kill him for another transgression. While Violet goes to get more
ammunition to kill him with, Daisy is left with the target and finds that he
has terminal cancer. This sort of explains why he is so eager to die, but it
also serves to make the girls feel sorry for him.
Through a strange sequence of events Violet ends up killing
the other hit team, who are also rivals who may have sexually assaulted her in
the past. But still, amidst all of the killing, James Gandolfini’s character;
who is a mysterious loner- I don’t recall him having a name; is still not dead.
As time moves on the people who have paid to have him killed
look to Violet and Daisy for answers as to why he is not dead. What will they
tell him? Will they tell him? Or do they have something up their sleeves that
will spare the target and still enable them to get the coveted Barbie Sunday
dresses?
Geoffrey Fletcher; the director of “Precious”, wrote and
directed this offbeat comedy about offbeat people in an offbeat world. Don’t miss
it.
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