It's a well worn trope, but this week we're doing the ol' "never be a hitman with a girlfriend and a fiance who participates in an unsanctioned kidnapping and accidentally steals the goddaughter of his hit boss and falls in love with her too," story.

A tired chestnut, perhaps, but a reliable one.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast Josh and Ryan are going hardcore 90s with this Mark Wahlberg vehicle about a charmingly conscientious, and maddeningly morally nebulous hitman who finds himself pulling the wrong job with the wrong people on the wrong target.

1998's The Big Hit is a head scratcher of an entry in Mark Wahlberg's larger acting library, but it comes at a period where he was still fabulously unserious and willing to take a risk. And what a risk this one is.

With an absolutely unhinged performance by Lou Diamond Phillips, more masturbation jokes than an 8th grade boy's gym class, and enough infidelity to make a daytime soap opera jealous, The Big Hit is the most cartoonish action movie we reckon you'll ever see.

Last week, we reviewed an actual cartoon. This week an assembly of caricatures. Nothing is serious, the rules of physics need not apply... let's have a stupid, rollicking good time.

The Big Hit was released in 1998 and stars Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, and Christina Applegate.

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