Wild Target - Una valigia per tre

Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon carefully lines up the dominoes in this crime comedy, but director Jonathan Lynn can't make them fall.

"Wild Target," starring Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt, is a droll British farce about a middle-aged hit man who falls for a beautiful young mark, and as its title suggests, everything — including the movie — seems destined to spin dangerously out of control. In this re-imagining of Pierre Salvadori's more darkly told 1993 French original, "Cible Emouvante," there is irony around every curve and swerve of Lucinda Coxon's screenplay. Human nature, romance, family ties, the art of the kill, honor among thieves and Murphy's Law are lined up like dominoes just waiting for a fall. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (2976 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 29 ottobre 2010