Subtle, sophisticated black comedy that is all too close to real life. Essentially a treatise on community loyalty, this posits the notion that criminals can never marry out of the criminal fraternity because of a conflict of loyalty. Any attempt to do so will inevitably lead to social ostracism while not marrying the one you love leads to a lonely old age.
Allied with this is the concept of trust and the inability of paid killers to trust each other sexually. This aspect of the movie is the funniest since it deals with the common issues of trust in a sexual relationship. The love that the characters feel for one another is really here nothing more than a desperate and vain attempt to overcome the quintessential lack of confidence between partners of different ethnicities and codes of values.
The performances are indifferent and never quite get to the points raised - with the sole exception of Anjelica HUSTON who enjoys the role of home-wrecker because she clearly understand it so well. Nevertheless, comedies about hit-men are rarely this good and make movies like the remake of Wild Target look like the dreck they truly are.
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