Netflix viewers have heaped praise on the streaming giant’s latest offering, Hit Man, and now it’s landed an almost-perfect score from critics.
Directed by School of Rock’s Richard Linklater, the movie stars Glen Powell (Anyone But You) as Gary Johnson, a philosophy professor who begins working for the police, posing as an assassin-for-hire to aid in sting operations.
After becoming embroiled in a love affair with a prospective client, played by Andor’s Adria Arjona, Gary must juggle a crooked cop and a violent ex-boyfriend, all the while entangled in his own web of lies.
The comedy is currently at 97 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, which makes it one of the highest rated original Netflix movies not just of the year, but ever.
AV Club called the movie “a slick, sexy comedy-noir that will actually get at-home viewers to engage with media outside of the dreaded algorithm”.
ABC News called it a “scorchingly sexy thriller” that “adds up to one of the best and most beguiling movies of the year”.
Even more impressively, the Rotten Tomatoes audience score almost matches up, currently ranking over 92 per cent.
One user called the movie an “absolute delight,” while another said it had “the best on-screen chemistry from two leads in years”.
Movies tend to very liberally use the term “based on a true story”, but surprisingly Hit Man’s plot is very much rooted in reality.
The movie takes its inspiration from a 2001 article written by Skip Hollandsworth for Texas Monthly titled “Hit Man”.
According to the article, Powell’s character Johnson was the “most sought-after professional killer” in Houston, Texas. However, in reality, he actually worked for the police and was being undercover.
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Johnson was a staff investigator for the Harris County District Office in Houston, and he did moonlight as a hit man for the police departments in and around the city. Police wouldn’t be able to arrest a person for simply seeking a hit man, so Johnson would get the person to say they wanted someone killed and that they’d pay for the service. In order to do so, he would convince every new client with a completely different disguise.
At the time, he estimated that he had investigated some 300 murder-for-hire cases.
Arjona’s character was also inspired by a real woman Johnson helped. Johnson once got a tip about a woman who had an abusive boyfriend that was seeking to find someone to kill him. Once learning of her heartbreaking story, he referred her to social service agencies and a therapist to help her get out of the abusive situation and into a women’s shelter.
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