This is one of those movies that you walk out of the theater thinking you were witnessing a car wreck - it's disgusting and horrible, and you don't know why you were looking at it. Given another chance, this would be the first movie I would have walked out of. Where to start? Firstly, it just goes to show that actors of some caliber (Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips) can be REALLY bad if the script is that bad. These guys seem like they're acting for a film school project - and they would have gotten an F for this assignment. The worst part of this whole mess is the movie itself - it tries to be an action movie, then a comedy, then a little drama - but the problem is that the story is so flimsy and the dialogue is so lame that there's nothing to hold this mess together. How funny is it supposed to be that Mark is a hit-man who DESPERATELY wants people to like him? They got it right in "The Whole Nine Yards" - they had the likeable guy played by a 'bystander', Matthew Perry, and the hit man played with coolness by Bruce Willis. Also, that movie didn't do what this movie does too often - play down to the absolute lowest common denominator possible. I mean, how often is Lou Diamond Phillips' character supposed to be dead, only to pop back up again? This tripe makes me want to gag. I hope to G-d no one ever makes a movie like this again.
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