Directed by Kirk Wong • 1998 • United States
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate
Hong Kong action director Kirk Wong and executive producer John Woo bring HK-style genre mayhem to Hollywood in this tonally bonkers blend of bullet-riddled spectacle and goofball comedy. Mark Wahlberg stars as Melvin Smiley, a put-upon hit man whose already-stressful life gets even more complicated when his criminal colleagues set him up to take the fall in a kidnapping gone wrong. Even if all poor Melvin wants is to return his copy of KING KONG LIVES to the video store, he’ll have to deal with an explosive underworld plot first.
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