The Hitman (1991)- Chuck Norris (3)

Director: Aaron Norris

Stars: Chuck Norris, Michael Parks and Al Waxman

Genre: -  Action | Crime | Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (strong gangster violence, and for language)

 Running Time: 95 Mins

Tagline: "He's so far undercover he may never get back"

 REVIEW

Let me begin by saying that this is one of the most unoriginal movies of the 90’s. But, it stars Chuck Norris, and as we all know, Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone, so I will be amicable about this review. Anyway, The Hitman is one of those 90’s films that have long since been forgotten, and if you ask anyone about it they will confuse it with the film adaptation of the popular video game from the same name.  So to clear confusion, this movie is not related at all to the  horrible video game movie starring Timothy Oliphant; with that said let’s begin the review.

This movie tells the story of a cop who is betrayed by his partner, and ends in a coma. The premise is very similar to the Steven Seagal movie Hard to Kill, but as the film progresses it takes a very different route. After the betrayal, Norris’s character assumes a new identity and infiltrates the Seattle mafia who are battling with Vancouver-based mobsters for control of the drug trade. Things go awry when Iranian drug dealers come in to town; total war breaks out between the three groups. Throughout the film, Norris pretends he is protecting the mafia head leader, when in fact he is undercover, and is also out to seek revenge.

The movie is not original in any way, but I had a good time overall.  The best scene in this movie is perhaps when Chuck walks into an Arab restaurant  and begins to insult the food they are eating and later single-handedly taking out  every one of them .  The movie isn’t politically correct, that’s for sure, but its great if your just in it for the action and some unintentional laughs.

DVD

I own this movie in a triple feature DVD from Warner Home Entertainment.  The price for the triple feature is considerably cheap now, at the time I paid 14 bucks for it, now it’s gone down to 5.97 new!  here is the link for the DVD- Chuck Norris Triple Feature

VIDEO 

I wasn’t too happy with the quality on this DVD. The film came in an aspect ratio of 1:33:1 and I have a widescreen TV…so, it means I need to zoom in order to capture the whole screen, causing the picture quality to suffer.

AUDIO

The audio is just as crummy, no 5.1. Surround sound on this DVD, just a basic 2channel stereo sound.