The Big Hit: Critic Reviews

Insatiable moviegoers are advised to wait till this action-comedy, written by Ben Ramsey, thuds into video stores; tasteful moviegoers will avoid it altogether.

In its non-A-list way, The Big Hit is the most successful attempt yet to transfer the Hong Kong action movie to Hollywood.

The characters in these movies exist in a Twilight Zone where thousands of rounds of ammunition are fired, but no one ever gets shot unless the plot requires him to. The bullets have read the screenplay.

...crude and bloody but effective action comedy...

As low- intelligence entertainment goes, this film is very much a hit-and-miss affair.

The Big Hit is nothing more, or less, than a big goof.

The script, by rookie writer Ben Ramsey, is among the most disgraceful screenplays ever to be produced by a major studio.

The Big Hit should be titled The Big Miss. That?s a really bad pun, but it?s better than anything in this movie.

This frantic black comedy is one long obscure joke.

If you often find yourself defending the types of movies offered by Jerry Bruckheimer and Joel Silver, here's an affably dumb little action/comedy that should easily hold your attention.

Aside from everything else it does, The Big Hit proves that any subject matter can be funny, in the right hands.

Unfortunately, despite a promising premise, the film never manages to be much more than an adolescent exercise in caricatures, so inappropriately broad in its humor that it almost makes Airplane look like a documentary.