The Hit

After the crook Parker squealed to police about his accomplices in crime, it was clear that he had signed his own death sentence. Now ten years have passed and the day of reckoning is upon him. Braddock, hitman by trade, and his young assistant Myron (Tim Roth) are sent to knock off Parker. To their amazement, he does not even resist. He had long since prepared himself mentally for this moment, and this definitely puts a spanner in the killers' work. With a girl as hostage, all four rather messed up characters take off for Spain, the police hot in pursuit.... In this, his second film, Stephen Frears manages to walk the tightrope between breathtaking thriller on the one hand and perfectly spun comedy on the other. Tim Roth's first feature film performance (as inexperienced gangster trying to keep his cool but blowing it constantly in the tense-ridden situation) is one in which the young star mixes apathy and aggression to find his own unique and expressive style.