Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Despite some early indications from the two Cusacks and Arkin that it's going to be funny, it winds up an unholy mess that becomes steadily more incoherent -- morally, dramatically, and conceptually.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2009
fresh:
Cusack is charming and assured in the film.
– Leonard Klady,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
For what is essentially a one-joke movie, this has an awful lot going for it.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
A soggy, all-over-the- place mess.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jun 2002
fresh:
An entertaining oddity, an amiably black comedy whose bared teeth double as an engaging smile: It takes a satiric bite and leaves you laughing through the pain. For that, we can thank the writers.