A slick New York assassin accepts an unusual hit: a woman who not only is expecting him, but who is more than willing to be murdered.A slick New York assassin accepts an unusual hit: a woman who not only is expecting him, but who is more than willing to be murdered.A slick New York assassin accepts an unusual hit: a woman who not only is expecting him, but who is more than willing to be murdered.
Philip Maurice Hayes
- F.B.I. Agent
- (as Philip Hayes)
Claudio Masciulli
- Partygoer #2
- (as Claudio De Victor)
Justine Priestley
- Masseuse
- (as Justine Priestly)
- Director
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- TriviaFeature directorial debut for American playwright and screenwriter Mark Malone. Although he wrote the screenplay, Malone only receives a "from story" credit; in order to qualify for a Canadian tax shelter, the film's producers instead gave sole screenwriting credit to the pseudonymous Canadian writer Gordon Melbourne.
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Nice title, middling photography, awful script, and then the acting, ugh!!!
Bulletproof Heart (1994)
This wears its film noir visuals on its sleeve and even there, in the one clear intention by the filmmakers, it holds back. For one reason, it's in color, but not the noir intense color you might expect in a modern iteration, but a dull and workaday visual approach with grey blacks and soft edges. Too bad, because the visuals were the one hope for making this thing work.
The idea is promising--a woman knows she is going to be killed by a hired killer, and she seduces the killer(s) and avoids her death, at least at first (not to give away the end). But that is the entire plot idea, totally, so for an hour and a half we slowly (slowly) get there. There is a lot of "soft porn" as we go, and not very good either (not advancing the plot and not for its own sake, whatever soft porn is supposed to be doing in a movie in the first place). The script has shades of the clipped dialog and indifference lead character of noir, but maybe the comparison to great films of the past isn't helping appreciate this one.
The director, Mark Malone, has a series of five star movies to his name (five out of ten) except his last one, which gets three. This is his first, and it feels like it, with some clumsy breaks in the narrative flow that feel like film school tricks. The writing is painful, the editing lazy.
There are better low budget crime and suspense films to cut your teeth on.
This wears its film noir visuals on its sleeve and even there, in the one clear intention by the filmmakers, it holds back. For one reason, it's in color, but not the noir intense color you might expect in a modern iteration, but a dull and workaday visual approach with grey blacks and soft edges. Too bad, because the visuals were the one hope for making this thing work.
The idea is promising--a woman knows she is going to be killed by a hired killer, and she seduces the killer(s) and avoids her death, at least at first (not to give away the end). But that is the entire plot idea, totally, so for an hour and a half we slowly (slowly) get there. There is a lot of "soft porn" as we go, and not very good either (not advancing the plot and not for its own sake, whatever soft porn is supposed to be doing in a movie in the first place). The script has shades of the clipped dialog and indifference lead character of noir, but maybe the comparison to great films of the past isn't helping appreciate this one.
The director, Mark Malone, has a series of five star movies to his name (five out of ten) except his last one, which gets three. This is his first, and it feels like it, with some clumsy breaks in the narrative flow that feel like film school tricks. The writing is painful, the editing lazy.
There are better low budget crime and suspense films to cut your teeth on.
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- Asesino a sueldo
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- Gross US & Canada
- $297,415
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,406
- Jan 1, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $297,415
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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