Unnecessary remake of a better film (Cible émouvante) that is still good fun.
Emily BLUNT steals the show as the eccentric target of a lonely assassin, who comes to find love late in life. Her timing is spot-on and her sexuality understated - but both very real for all that.
Where the film falls flat lies in its being decidedly under-written. BLUNT's character never really makes much sense psychologically and her apparent Electra complex - her motivational mainspring - springs from no clearly-definable source. Her would-be assassin is much more clearly-delineated as epicene with potentially-homosexual tendencies. This inevitably lessens the sexual tension and chemistry between the two leads that would have catapulted this amusing crime caper into classic romantic-comedy territory. This thin psychological sketching-in of the characters also partly invalidates the theme of Nature versus Nurture that the film darkly hints is responsible for much of the on-screen shenanigans.
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