Spoiler-free Movie Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984): All they have to do is open their mouths and bore each other to death".Nearly perfect adaptation, by which I mean it’s just as eye-opening, visceral and difficult to enjoy as the source novel. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote about the actors: "These guys don't have to use guns. Wes Anderson ranked it the fifth best British film. On Metacritic, The Hit has a rank of 75 out of a 100 based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The police attempt to question the dying Braddock but he only winks at Maggie before he dies.Īt review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film is certified "fresh" with an overall approval rating of 87% from 15 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. As Braddock attempts to cross the border on foot, Maggie identifies him to the police, who shoot him dead as he tries to escape. The police find Maggie and the two bodies. He leaves her alive and drives to a secluded spot where he changes into hiking clothes and walks off through the forest. During the struggle, Braddock fires the last shot into the air and knocks Maggie unconscious. Maggie surprises him and they wrestle violently. He then turns the pistol on Myron and kills him. Braddock shoots him in the back as he flees. Suddenly afraid, Parker insists that he can't die until he gets to Paris. He relieves Myron of his gun and flings it into the scrub. The next day, with ten miles to the border, Braddock stops the car at an isolated hillside and announces that he's scrapped the plans to go to Paris. Parker reminds Braddock that death is inevitable for all and quotes John Donne's poem " Death Be Not Proud". Braddock finds him gazing at a waterfall and confronts him about his lack of concern over his impending death. They return to find Myron has fallen asleep and allowed Parker to slip away. Braddock chases after the girl but is unable or unwilling to shoot her.
Maggie tries to alert the station attendant to her plight, allowing in Braddock to kill the young man. Leaving Myron with Parker he takes Maggie with him to get petrol for the car. Braddock himself has a confrontation with her when they are alone in which she reveals she understands English and also bites his hand, drawing blood, from which he appears to derive some form of masochistic or self-penitential gratification.īraddock drives up a track leading to a wood by a river where they can rest up. Myron has developed sympathy for Maggie and feels protective of her. Stopping at a roadside bar to buy beers, Myron is laughed at by four youths, so he attacks them and then runs for the car. The Spanish police, led by senior inspector, follow quite closely the trail of bodies. All the while, Parker sows seeds of discord between the two hit men. The group head toward the French border intending to reach Paris, where the kingpin against whom Parker testified is apparently awaiting their arrival. As they are about to start Parker makes a comment that causes Braddock to doubt that Harry will keep quiet and he goes back up to the flat and kills him. Harry gives them the keys to the owner's white Mercedes which is brought to the underground garage where the group leave their previous car. Parker mischievously announces his identity to them, causing Braddock to take the girl with them as insurance. He is Harry, a middle-aged Australian with a young apparently non-English speaking Spanish girlfriend Maggie, who comes home as they are talking. Parker quickly adopts a carefree demeanour, later explaining that he's had ten years to accept death as a simple part of life.īraddock, who has the key to an apartment in Madrid where the owner is away, orders Myron to drive there but when the three walk in they find the place occupied by an acquaintance of the owner.
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Three of the youths are then killed by a bomb in a briefcase, which they believe to contain their pay-off, handed to them by Braddock.īraddock is a world-weary professional killer while Myron is his perky but volatile young apprentice. In the course of the kidnapping the youths run down a Spanish policeman who has been assigned to guard Parker. Four Spanish youths kidnap him and deliver him to British hit man Braddock and his sidekick Myron, hired by the kingpin that Parker helped put away.
Ten years later, Parker is living in comfortable retirement in Spain.
London gangster Willie Parker gives evidence against his criminal compatriots in return for a very generous offer from the police.
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