Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Christian Slater, Jason Momoa, Sarah Shahi and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Christian Slater, Jason Momoa, Sarah Shahi and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
In a movie titled Bullet To The Head you’d expect good guys with guns, girls with tattoos and bad guys with bullet holes in their head. Walter Hill’s movie serves up all those things with a twist on the good cop bad cop routine. The bad cop here is replaced by a tough as nuts hitman. But Hill spends so much time Americanising this adaptation of a french novel called Du Plomb Dans La Tete.
Sylvester Stallone is a hitman called Jimmy Bobo. He’s been arrested 26 times in his miserable little life. And yet he continues with conviction on the path of blood and glory. On a routine case, his partner and he are double crossed by their employers. A Washingtoncop Taylor is assigned on the case, played here by Sung Kang. The cop joins forces with the hitman to solve the case. The hitman obviously is in it fueled by a sense of machismo driven vendetta. This is classic pulp fun. You can even imagine original french writer Alexis Nolent must’ve enjoyed himself to the hilt while writing this twisted little action fantasy. And that comes through when Taylor and Jimmy are driving around as if they’re a cop team. But they’re not. Jimmy makes cliched Chinese jokes about Taylor. And Taylorteases the old school Jimmy on his technological challenges. Statutory warning, to figure the really quirky dialogue between the two, you’d have to listen through Stallone’s drawl and Kang’s accent.
But what could’ve been a fresh new perspective on the age-old muscle movie, turns into an age-old muscle movie. Thanks to the choicest inclusion of American Jazz and Rock n roll music in the background. And a screenplay that’s not so hot either. Hill’s movie has a huge ’90s hangover, only Stallone doesn’t look like he’s in his forties.
Sylvester Stallone is a hitman called Jimmy Bobo. He’s been arrested 26 times in his miserable little life. And yet he continues with conviction on the path of blood and glory. On a routine case, his partner and he are double crossed by their employers. A Washingtoncop Taylor is assigned on the case, played here by Sung Kang. The cop joins forces with the hitman to solve the case. The hitman obviously is in it fueled by a sense of machismo driven vendetta. This is classic pulp fun. You can even imagine original french writer Alexis Nolent must’ve enjoyed himself to the hilt while writing this twisted little action fantasy. And that comes through when Taylor and Jimmy are driving around as if they’re a cop team. But they’re not. Jimmy makes cliched Chinese jokes about Taylor. And Taylorteases the old school Jimmy on his technological challenges. Statutory warning, to figure the really quirky dialogue between the two, you’d have to listen through Stallone’s drawl and Kang’s accent.
But what could’ve been a fresh new perspective on the age-old muscle movie, turns into an age-old muscle movie. Thanks to the choicest inclusion of American Jazz and Rock n roll music in the background. And a screenplay that’s not so hot either. Hill’s movie has a huge ’90s hangover, only Stallone doesn’t look like he’s in his forties.
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