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Starring:
Elias Koteas, Bruce Ramsay, Kevin J. O'Connor, Philip Baker Hall, J.C. Quinn, Haing S. Ngor, William H. Macy, Jack Conley, Tom Lillard, Jay Leggett, Laure Marsac, Jay Leggett, Arthur Senzy
Directed By:
Steven Shainberg
Written By:
Jim Thompson, Denis Johnson
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Hit Me (1996)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 24th, 2007
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It means you haven't done it yet
I like oddballs. Some people call them weirdos. Some people call them eccentrics. It doesn't really matter which term you prefer to use. I like characters who vibrate off of a movie screen. I especially like to see these characters dropped into strange scenes. To be set up in moments of desperation or humiliation, just to see how they react. I like it when a story starts at point A and winds up off the map before reaching a point B that you never dreamed would exist. HIT ME is based on a novel by Jim Thompson, author of The Grifters and is directed by the man who brought us SECRETARY. I loved this movie.
Elias Koteas is Sonny, a tired and pathetic bellhop for a 2 star hotel looking to gain back its 3 star status. Sonny owes some bad people money. He's trying to care for his developmentally disabled brother and avoid having him taken as a ward of the state. When a mobster comes through the hotel, looking to hold an illegal poker tournament, another hotel employee approaches him with a proposition to rob it. In an act of desperation, Sonny agrees to go along with the plot. Sounds like a standard mobster issue. Difference is there's a girl. Well, alright, there's usually a girl. This time it is the doe-eyed Laure Marsac as Monique, a woman whose desperation parallels Sonny's when he first meets her. Their attraction is instant and intensely palpable. She is a part of the scheme, another pawn in a set-up that goes from bad to worse to horrible.
Koteas is brilliant, playing Sonny through glances and fidgety moves. This is a character that lives inside of his head, and Koteas manages to get you to feel the disbelief and pain over his situation. There is never a safe moment to this flick. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop so many times that I started to think I needed to have a half dozen feet to keep up. But the coup de gras was the ending. You know how I always mention that I'm most satisfied when all you end up left with is a sense of emptiness and a feeling of "What the f*ck?" Well, HIT ME left me more satisfied than a redneck at an army surplus store. Which is just the kind of satisfied that I like best.
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