Blunt seems to be playing the part they gave her, and she makes her sexual appetite and casual recklessness work as much as it can, but the film does’t have the sort of whimsy necessary to take it home. Nighy can do the droll business man as well as anyone and though he’s good enough here, it never does anything much with his charms. Here everyone feels like they’re in contractual obligation mode. I like all of the leading actors and the goodwill that comes from that, and a relatively interesting premise should be enough. The problem with the love story is that the two have absolutely no chemistry together and nothing that happens in the film to suggest as much is believable. Of course, love ensues for Rose and Maynard. The three end up on the lam pursued by Hector Dixon (Martin Freeman), who considers himself as good if not better than Maynard, and likes the competition. Tony is a car washer/stoner who comes across them and gets dragged into their need to hide from the new killers. When he does so, Tony (Rupert Grint) accidentally enters the picture. Maynard takes too long to nail her, and other people start following her, which puts him in the position of protecting her. She is the prototypical manic pixie dream girl. He learns that Rose is both a kleptomaniac and has a healthy attitude about sex (she asks a man how much he weighs, and if it’s the right amount, she beds him). Rose (Emily Blunt) works in a museum, and has a co-worker (who restores great art) make a copy of a million dollar piece she sells to Ferguson (Rupert Everett), who figures out he’s been duped shortly after the sale.Įnter Maynard, who’s supposed to kill Rose, but during the course of following her never gets the right opportunity. The film starts with him doing his job, but when he runs across a parakeet, he can’t pull the trigger, and gives it to his mum.
Nighy plays Victor Maynard, an old hitman considered the best in his business.
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It should be noted this is a remake of a French film, the 1993 movie Cible émouvante (which translates to wild target in French). My review of Wild Target follows after the jump. Nighy is a hitman assigned to take out art-thief Blunt, but falls in love. All the more embarrassing because it stars Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Martin Freeman and Rupert Everett. A direct-to-video title stateside, the film has everything you could hope for and still fails to amount to much. But if I were a one-man crusade to save Jonathan Lynn’s reputation, I would not be able to lift myself up to defend Wild Target. Lynn may be a workman on the side of hack, but he knows what he’s doing more so than – say – an Adam Shankman or Shawn Levy.
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Having directed films like My Cousin Vinny, Trial and Error and Clue, it’s fair to say he’s been behind some solid, underappreciated (in their times) comedies.
Lewis who slipped under the radar in their time but obviously delivered solid pieces of work. For cineastes, the classical example of a great but underappreciated auteur, the comparison would be to directors like Andre de Toth or Joseph H. Jonathan Lynn strikes me as an underrated director.
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