HIT MAN

Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta, Austin Amelio, Molly Bernard, Mike Markoff, Roxy Rivera

Glen Powell is one of the hottest young actors working in Hollywood right now thanks to Top Gun Maverick and the rom com Anyone But You. He’s now reteaming with director Richard Linklater for Hit Man. The opening text shares that Hit Man is a “somewhat true story” based on the Texas Monthly Article by Skip Hollandsworth. Glen Powell co-wrote the film with director Richard Linklater and stars as mild-mannered Gary Johnson, a philosophy professor by day who also happens to work undercover for the New Orleans Police Department. He works on a team that poses as hit men to prevent future murder for hire plots. Gary’s hit man alias is “Ron” and his latest client, Madison (Arjona), wants Ron to kill her mentally abusive boyfriend. Ron takes pity on her and convinces Madison to pull the plug on the plan and start a new life somewhere else. They bump into each other again and a “friends with benefits” relationship begins between the two of them. Gary has to keep up the ruse of being “Ron the hit man” whenever he’s with her, but it’s not long before people get suspicious of what’s really happening with Gary, aka Ron. Now in select theaters May 24 and will be streaming on Netflix June 7

Here’s my review