The Hit 1984

Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times: "The Hit" is something special: thoughtful, perfectly performed and carrying the clear stamp of an extremely interesting director. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: These guys don't have to use guns. All they have to do is open their mouths and bore each other to death. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: All in all, a very palpable hit. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Frears and writer Peter Prince have taken a potentially familiar tale of a gangland betrayal and revenge and made something richly inventive and most entertaining. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It is a dexterously balanced killer thriller by the idiosyncratic Frears, whose every scene becomes a matter of life and death. A lighter clicks, a gun clicks; life or death, it all sounds the same. Read more