The whole time I was watching Wild Target, I was trying to figure out just how to explain its weirdly old-fashioned comedic tone. I could talk about its absurd plot...
Wild Target
United Kingdom, France · 2010
Rated PG-13 · 1h 38m
Director Jonathan Lynn
Starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett
Genre Action, Comedy
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Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The considerable wit, style, and skill that Mr. Nighy and Ms. Blunt bring to the project are squandered.
Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
Nighy is usually a treat to watch navigating life's bad turns, so it's especially frustrating that the filmmaker so often leaves him at loose ends.
It's entertainment designed to resemble a good time without aspiring to provide one.
Nearly every element here is wildly off-target, from Jonathan Lynn's ("The Whole Nine Yards") lazy helming and Lucinda Coxon's shambolic script to the embarrassed-looking perfs from usually excellent lead thesps Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The cast, though, includes a great bunch of Brit faves who have all done better work elsewhere.
An eccentric little comic thriller filled with enough laughs that I was mostly willing to overlook the fact that it makes virtually no sense as a thriller.
It's hard to tell what Wild Target is offering, besides the pleasure of its company.
The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
Jonathan Lynn's lamentable black comedy Wild Target again shows that attractive and charismatic actors can do nothing to save a movie that's charmless, pointless and witless.
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