Mr Right is a horribly wrong film.
For some reason, someone at some point decided that a romcom and an action film were two things that would go well together.
Now, we've seen this sort of BS before, in Mr & Ms Smith, Knight & Day, and neither is really an action film OR a romcom. Now, i was going to say that in Mr Right these two things mix successfully, but the thing is, they don't.
So Mr Right is a horrible mix of two things that should never, ever be mixed together.
But .. both of these things are really, really good.
The plot is of a near-superhuman hit-man who falls in love with a girl, and decides to change his life and become a nice guy (no more killing, OK?). The romcom bits are done heavy on the comedy, and both actors manage to be convincing and funny with little effort. The action parts are both intense and very, very well directed (major kudos to whoever filmed these, you should have been given the helm of the Bourne films), and also feature a great deal of really funny humour, although of a different cut than the romcom bits.
The film sort of comes together in the end as more of a straight action- comedy film, and i'm grateful for that.
So, i recommend Mr Right - although i'm not sure *who* i would recommend it to. You will have to accept that you're watching two films at the same time, but i promise you in the end you'll come out feeling like you've had more than your share of fun.
My vote: 8/10, -1 for the bad idea of mixing these two styles: 7/10
For some reason, someone at some point decided that a romcom and an action film were two things that would go well together.
Now, we've seen this sort of BS before, in Mr & Ms Smith, Knight & Day, and neither is really an action film OR a romcom. Now, i was going to say that in Mr Right these two things mix successfully, but the thing is, they don't.
So Mr Right is a horrible mix of two things that should never, ever be mixed together.
But .. both of these things are really, really good.
The plot is of a near-superhuman hit-man who falls in love with a girl, and decides to change his life and become a nice guy (no more killing, OK?). The romcom bits are done heavy on the comedy, and both actors manage to be convincing and funny with little effort. The action parts are both intense and very, very well directed (major kudos to whoever filmed these, you should have been given the helm of the Bourne films), and also feature a great deal of really funny humour, although of a different cut than the romcom bits.
The film sort of comes together in the end as more of a straight action- comedy film, and i'm grateful for that.
So, i recommend Mr Right - although i'm not sure *who* i would recommend it to. You will have to accept that you're watching two films at the same time, but i promise you in the end you'll come out feeling like you've had more than your share of fun.
My vote: 8/10, -1 for the bad idea of mixing these two styles: 7/10