Hit!

1973

Action / Crime / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50%
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 984 984

blaxploitation daughter revenge murder blaxploitation cinema drugs

Director

Sidney J. Furie Photo
Sidney J. Furie

Top cast

Warren J. Kemmerling Photo
Warren J. Kemmerling as Dutch Schiller
Noble Willingham Photo
Noble Willingham as Warden Springer
Jerry Jones Photo
Jerry Jones as The Weasel
Don McGovern Photo
Don McGovern as Roger
720p.BLU
1.21 GB
1280*576
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Kilamofo 5 / 10

Good performances... Slow movie.

Billy Dee's Daughter dies in heroin overdose. While beating the hell out of the dealer, he realizes that killing him won't solve the problem so he sets his sights high... At the top of the food chain.This film runs at about 2 1/2 hours and final "Hits" take about ten minutes, so the rest of the film is setup and much of that is implausible and unfortunately very slow to develop. Billy Dee Williams however was an electric presence, very hard to take your eyes off of while on screen. A very menacing cool. Richard Pryor... What can you say, the man is an artist. While watching the film you know he was given one line and the rest he made happen with his own special magic. Just watching the guy is enough to make you laugh.You would have expected more from the director of 'Lady Sings the Blues', but it was stellar considering the same gentleman also directed 'Superman IV'
Reviewed by merklekranz 6 / 10

Improbable ... incredibly long ... but worth a look .....

"Hit" is an interesting revenge on Marseilles drug kingpins film, that one can't help comparing to "French Connection 2". I found "Hit" to be the better film. It does require some patience though to sit through the entirely too long buildup to the all to brief, violent conclusion. Of course the whole recruiting of the "magnificent seven assassins" is improbable, but Williams laconic charm holds things together. If perhaps 30 minutes wound up on the cutting room floor, the movie definitely would have benefited. While the payoff may not quite live up to expectations, there are moments of clever violence, and the cast is likable, especially Richard Pryor's character, and the pair of "senior citizen killers". - MERK
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