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Cast And CrewCast:Emily Blunt,Rupert Grint,
Martin Freeman,Bill Nighy,
Rupert Everett,Eileen Atkins
Directed By: Jonathan Lynn
Written By: Lucinda Coxon
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 28 min.
In Theaters: Oct 29, 2010 Limited
Distributor:Freestyle Releasing
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Comedy
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Synopsis: Wild Target is a comedy about uptight Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy), a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother Louisa... Wild Target is a comedy about uptight Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy), a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (Emily Blunt).He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring a young apprentice in the process, Tony (Rupert Grint). Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client
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Homicide for hire as a weapon of laughter in a comedy may be an even more daunting challenge to pull off in a movie than engaging in the assassination profession itself. But British director Jonathan Lynn (Nuns On The Run, My Cousin Vinny), who's displayed his expertise at mixing murder and silly mayhem on both continents, continues to exhibit his flair for pathological lunacy with Wild Target. Even as the story occasionally feels overwrought and recycled.
Emily Blunt is Rose in Wild Target, a daffy, alluring kleptomaniac who whimsically advances in her illicit chosen career from petty shoplifting to high end counterfeit art, specifically a Rembrandt housed in a museum. But Rose makes the grave error of pawning off the fake on ferocious London crimelord Ferguson (Rupert Everett), who's not in the least amused.
Enter Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy), an efficient, gentlemanly killer for hire assigned by Ferguson to terminate Rose. Victor is also the henpecked descendant of an infamously esteemed dysfunctional crime family presided over by austere, nagging widowed mom Louisa (Eileen Atkins). Who happens to excel at the art of premeditated gunplay herself even though confined to a wheelchair at a nursing home, as well as expertly impaling annoying parrots with knitting needles.
A lonely aging professional gunman who's about to take a hit of his own from midlife crisis, Victor is increasingly infatuated with overly confident artful dodger Rose. And recklessly abandons his assignment of dispatching her without fuss to the afterlife, to rescue her instead. Though the package deal includes harboring incidental flaky fugitive Tony (Rupert Grint). None of which sits well with a furious Ferguson, or Victor's disapproving malevolent mum.
By no means everyone's cup of tea with crumpets, Wild Target necessitates an acquired taste for British comedy. Meaning a highly stylized and inhibited snobbish irreverence, served up with a slice of outlandish sinister menace on the elegant
With its incredibly likable cast and entertaining premise, Wild Target should have been better, but it never goes far enough and isn't as zanily funny as it's trying to be.
Bill Nighy stars as Victor, an aging assassin. One day he's hired to kill Rose (Blunt), a young woman who has just pulled off an art scam where she sold a fake Rembrandt to the wrong person. Instead of killing Rose, he ends up developing a crush on her and decides to protect her instead. Tony (Grint), is an innocent bystander who gets involved with Rose and Victor when he witnesses Victor kill another man sent to kill Rose.
In 2007, Emily Blunt played Bill Nighy's daughter in the BBC's Gideon's Daughter. With the 33 year difference in their age, that certainly makes more sense than the 27 year old Blunt falling in love with the 60 year old Nighy as she does here. Their romance is the least convincing part of the entire movie. Part of Victor's story is that he's feeling the need to start a family and having a more fatherly relationship toward Rose would have made more sense.
Part of the problem with the story is that the characters are never really developed. We know almost nothing about any of them. Victor comes from a long line of assassins and some of the best scenes are the scenes between him and his mother played by Eileen Atkins. Apart from the fact that Rose is a compulsive thief, we know nothing about her and Tony is a third wheel that could have been cut from the plot without losing anything.
The pacing also needed to be picked up. It's not a long movie, but for the laughs it needed to be more like a screwball comedy. At one point in the movie, Rose, Victor and Tony end up staying in the same hotel as the man who wants to kill Rose and you'd expect some resulting door slamming and near misses, but it never really happens.
Martin Freeman has a small part as the big-toothed rival assassin who's sent to kill Victor and Rose. He manages to wring a few laughs out of the part and fares much better than a wasted Rupert Everett.
In fact the whole movie feels like a wasted opportunity. Such a good cast and premise should have been better. It's a remake of a 1993 French Farce, but it feels so restrained as though the British reserve has weighed it down.
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