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Goofs When Victor is massaging Rose's feet, in the close ups you can tell that a hand double is used because all 5 fingers are straight; however, Bill Nighy has Dupuytren's contracture which means that the last two fingers on both hands are permanently pointing inwards. This is visible in the wide shots. Quotes [repeated line] Rose : What do you weigh? This painting was stolen on 1 January and has not been recovered. Note, the movie was filmed in User reviews Review.

Top review. An interesting and entertaining comedy. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and found the story to be original and funny throughout. Emily Blunt plays an extremely sexy con-artist who crosses paths with an up-tight Bill Nighy playing a professional assassin hired to kill her. The characters are likable and well-cast.

Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt strike up a modern day love-story that is unconventional and yet somehow totally believable. The family bond that is established with Rupert Grint as the adopted son worked very well and was charming. If you want to see something different, interesting and funny then I really recommend giving this film a chance. Details Edit. Release date June 18, United Kingdom. United Kingdom France. Official site.

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There are tunes over the beginning and end credits that are catchy and fluffy. You'll probably get a kick out of it. Sort of a dark romantic comedy, a hit man falls for his target. TxMike 24 August Bill Nighy wasn't on my personal radar until a few years ago when I saw him in "Love Actually. Here he is Victor Maynard, professional hit man, carrying on the family tradition passed down from his grandfather and his father.

Even his elderly, wheel-chair bound mother gives him constant encouragement. Emily Blunt is con artist Rose. We see her latest con, which involves a Rembrandt reproduction, a last-minute switch, and getting away with , pounds. Or maybe one million, it is hard to tell what they actually settled on. So she is on the run, Maynard is hired to kill her, and after a few close calls where other people got in the way, never-married Maynard starts to take an interest in her.

He gets less interested in killing her, more interested in getting to know her. Which they have ample time when they all go on the run and hide out in Maynard's old country home. An innocent bystander to a shooting in a car park, Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame is Tony, and he gets sucked along in the run for cover. Also good are Rupert Everett as Ferguson, who gets stiffed in the Rembrandt caper.

Overall a very enjoyable and funny, darkly, romantic comedy. SPOILERS: Yes, the much older Maynard and Rose take a sincere liking towards each other, and instead of killing, after they get rid of all those chasing them are destined to end up together. And Maynard is not gay, after all.

This movie was pretty cool. It had all the stuff that a movie needs to be interesting; action, humor, love and thrills. And it all came together in a very good way to make for a superb movie experience. The story was good and very easy to follow, straight forward, though there were no twists and odd turns of events, which could have made the movie a bit more interesting. But the movie was far from being boring, despite it having a rather one-simple-way plot line.

The story was very likable and compelling. As for the characters, well Bill Nighy was amazing as the lead role, portraying the somewhat eccentric hit-man Victor Maynard. There is something very charismatic about that man, and he was so well cast for this particular role.

Moving on to Emily Blunt, in the role of Rose, well she did a good job as well, really bringing her on-the-edge character to life. However, Rupert Grint in the role of Tony, that was the bomb!

He was such a blast in this movie, and it was fantastic to see him in a mature role, stepping out of the wizardly shoes of the "Harry Potter" stuff. And it was really good to see the way the characters were given the time and effort to evolve throughout the movie, growing and making you relate to them. Few movies really get around this in a good way, but "Wild Target" managed to do that quite well.

For some reason this movie was more than just your average run of the mill action comedy. The way the characters were portrayed and how they came to life on the screen makes you really feel like you are right there in there with them.

And that is really the strongest link of the movie. There were some funny scenes and moments throughout the movie as well, though not the kind that will make you fall out of your seat with tears trickling down your cheeks. But the comedy in the movie is just subtle enough to be appropriate, without making the movie come off as trying too hard. Thumbs way up for this movie. When Rose Blunt switches a real Rembrandt for a fake, the victim Everett hires a professional hit man, Victor Maynard, to take her out.

Just one problem. He keeps missing. It's a problem for Victor, whose father was a major assassin, and his mother Atkins expects another solid hit from her son. Victor then learns that because he's botched the job, someone else is after Rose. It then falls to Victor to protect her. Along the way he gets an accomplice Grint who thinks Victor is a private detective. Rose is hard to protect. She's a kleptomaniac, for one thing, and she has a mind of her own. The three of them wind up at Victor's house, where lots happens, none of which is planned.

Very funny comedy, with all the actors in top form. Nighy is great, deadly serious throughout, and not quite knowing how to handle his "wild target. Reminiscent of the light British comedies we don't see any longer. A fun film and a great rental. Fails to deliver Gordon 17 July This film is about a professional killer having an unusual situation as he saves the woman he is supposed to kill.

It starts off promising as the assassin encounters the hilariously unexpected situation concerning his target, but things go downhill from there. The only funny moments are delivered by the mother.

As for the excitement, the storytelling provides little tension or suspense. This means there is not much to engage the viewers. If not for Emily Blunt's good performance of being in love, "Wild Target" would have been even more disappointing.

Wild Target isn't a great movie, I think the other reviews on this site and elsewhere prove that. BUT, I actually really enjoyed it. Having directed 'The Whole Nine Yards' Jonathon Lynn knows about how to make a good black comedy work,and he is helped by the fact he has the brilliant Bill Nighy in the lead role. Nighy has played this type of role before and since and manages to make his really warm to this contract killer in a way that other actors wouldn't be.

He carries the film at times with his dry humour. It is also nice to see Rupert Grint do comedy and he has some nice moments of interaction with Nighy in amongst all of the madness that you'd expect from a farcical comedy.

The real revelation for me was Emily Blunt. She manages to be funny, sexy and vulnerable in the role of Rose and even though I can't say the script is always water tight, she manages to find the heart in every scene. Although the film doesn't seem to know whether it's a family comedy or darker it is a fun one to watch. Ignore the negative reviews and give it a chance. Apparently none of the thirteen people who have written here about this film are aware that it is, in fact, a remake of Cible Emouvante, which Pierre Salvadori wrote and directed in This was a gem of a black comedy and clearly difficult to equal and impossible to eclipse as Jonathan Lynn has now discovered to his cost.

Bizarrely he has adhered to Salvadori's screenplay in virtually all aspects with the exception of the Guillaume Depardieu role which now goes to Rupert Grint. I am as it happens an admirer of Bill Nighy both as a stage and to a lesser extent a screen actor but with the best will in the world he just about comes up to Jean Rochefort's ankles whilst Emily Blunt has the equally thankless task of trying to erase the memory of Marie Trintignant.

Lines and situations that were droll in the original are merely drab in the ill-advised remake. Buy the original and forget this pale imitation. Victor Maynard Bill Nighy is a odd, fastidious, austere hit-man.

He is commissioned to kill Rose Emily Blunt who has just conned art collector Ferguson Rupert Everett with a forged painting. While in pursuit of her, Victor becomes intrigued by the fact that her entire life is simply loaded with unthinking theft, and he not only fails to kill her but is instrumental in saving her life from another attempted hit in which he is helped by innocent bystander and homeless orphan Tony Rupert Grint.

The three go on the run and gradually Rose brings some joie de vivre into Victor's life and she, in turn, comes to see something lovable in him. This highly improbable film works, and it works because the two main actors Nighy playing the driest of dry old sticks, and Blunt playing an amoral but good-hearted free spirit deliver their parts with the utmost conviction. The script is gently humorous rather than laugh-out-loud funny, but a smile hit my face very early on and seldom left it.

Rupert Grint gets a bit more to do than simply be Ron Weasley after having left school, but is otherwise fairly disposable. Martin Freeman showcases some splendidly unlikely teeth. Emily Blunt plays much more attractively than she has in any other film I've seen her in, and takes part in a foot massage scene with Nighy which is, frankly, the most sensuous scene I've seen on screen for a long time. The movie was made by the same production company which made A Bunch Of Amateurs a couple of years ago and, notwithstanding the subject matter, it has a similar feel to it.

But deduct a point for a title which is so bland as to be meaningless. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as did the mature audience who were in the cinema at my viewing. Uriah43 26 November Enjoyable comedy about a first-class hit-man named "Victor Maynard" Bill Nighy who is given a contract to kill a thief by the name of "Rose" Emily Blunt. After trying unsuccessfully a number of times, he begins to admire his target and cannot bring himself to carry it out. When another hit-man is hired he finds himself being the paid bodyguard instead.

Likewise, having worked alone all of his life he also finds that he now has an apprentice named "Tony" Rupert Grint who he tries to teach the tricks of the trade. Anyway, Bill Nighy puts on an outstanding performance as the fastidious assassin who has never needed or wanted companionship and has his hands full trying to keep up with the spontaneous kleptomaniac he is trying to protect. Rupert Grint is also quite good as the young student who has never had anybody either and thinks his benefactor is a private detective.

In short, this is a pretty good comedy with a definite British flavor. FlashCallahan 18 December Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose.

He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client This film should not work at all, and should be a career low for all involved, but somehow, the film manages to work, and all involved look like they are having fun whilst making this.

In the age of British film, i was not expecting something as classy as 'a Fish Called Wanda', nor was I thinking this would be amusing. I was expecting a movie along the lines of 'carry on Columbus' or 'Alien Autopsy'. If you can swallow the fact that Nighy and Blunt fancy each other, you are in for a treat featuring a n eclectic cast of Brits. The two leads really are fantastic in this, and if it wasn't for the chemistry between the two, this would be heavily average, if anything can possibly be.

Freeman plays a bit of a wideboy hit-man, which is a change, Grint plays a bit of a dunce, which isn't, and Everett seems to be playing the same character since Inspector Gadget. It's not a must see movie, but if you come across it on a cold Sunday afternoon, give it a go, it's worth it. It works every time! Victor Maynard Bill Nighy is a year old professional assassin from a family of professional assassins the matriarch is Louisa Maynard played to a fare-thee-well by Eileen Atkins who is unmarried and therefore is leaving no heir to the heritage of his family.

Rose has her style and as Victor attempts to carry out his assignment he is thwarted by an innocent kid bystander Tony Rupert Grint who makes a shot Victor can't ignore - perhaps this ad is the heir apparent to Victor's solitary life.

In a series of fun twists and turns Victor is taken in by both Rose and Tony and the chase between the trio and the henchmen of Ferguson is on. Yes, the shenanigans are funny and the cast is terrific in tossing away hilarious lines of dialogue, but true to British form there is also a series of sidebars that are carefully written to give the story a fine sense of human interactions.

Well worth a visit. Grady Harp. Mercifully, the film is almost as excellent as I could have ever imagined, its black-humor relish surpasses any slapstick baldness and the dialog is wittily conceived, which satisfyingly turns out to be amusing and the atmosphere it generates dilutes partly the criminal tense, meanwhile keeps it in a bona fide British stew. A quirky cast of all-British odd characters, branded in a distinctive UK hallmarks of leisure, stubbornness, macho-ism versus femme fatale, a grating Emily Blunt yes, she does give a vibrant Katy Perry resemblance might have done damage to the film, then a meek transition is arguably too strained Rupert Grint doesn't have too much melodramatic scenes, but his apprentice cumbersomeness suits him perfectly.

A reverend Eileen Atkins steals her scenes in her minimal presences, Rupert Everett and Martin Freeman again testify the world that villains produced by UK are somewhat loony but likable. Bill Nighy, landing an unusual leading role here, is the unsung hero, whose deadpan eccentricity and self-imposed subtlety helps to carry the film to an echelon of being singularly feel-good, noteworthily to distill the platitude of the plot into a casually neo-noir comedy, indeed a rare-seen comedic performance.

Killer is a hipster profession often over-beautified by the film media, this one makes no exception though, the merit here is the nation-biased pleasure I am able to get due to being a complete foreigner! There have been plenty of films about hitmen and the subject matter is hardly ripe to be turned into 'comedy gold,' but 'Wild Target' seems to have found the right approach with its whimsical and frothy take on the genre. The always-watchable Bill Nighy plays a hitman who's been in the profession a while and whose mother is getting worried that he's not going to produce an heir to carry on their dubious family profession.

Then, when he's given the task of 'despatching' an art thief played by Emily Blunt, he finds it's a job that's harder than he first thought. It sort of turns into an 'odd couple' kind of film only with three people - I forgot to mention that not only does Nighy find himself protecting the woman he's supposed to be killing, but also Rupert Grint, who plays a local drifter who happens to get in the way when he's forced to change his plans. Nighy is formal and reserved, Blunt is loud and - er - blunt and Grint just looks confused and adds a touch of humour here and there.

Rupert Everett and Martin Freeman are also on the cast list and the gangster and rival hitman, however their input are more like extended cameos and they're hardly given much screen time to really show what they're capable of.

The characters are simple and hardy deep, but they interact well and, although you'll probably successfully predict every plot point that comes, it's definitely worth a watch if you're looking for something easy going with some touching moments dotted in and around some very dark humour and subject matter. Surprisingly movies that include as a primary character an assassin or paid killer or contract killer is much more common than on first glance and may even deserve a subgenre classification such as assassin action thriller or assassin mystery thriller as this subgenre appears to distinguish the more cerebral slow moving type from the more explosive, rapid action type of assassin movie.

As for WILD TARGET, it probably would be more apt to consider this movie more of the assassin mystery thriller type, though what makes this movie particularly memorable are the comedy and relational drama elements. The greatest weakness of the movie is Bill Nighy's character as the best assassin in the world Victor Maynard. Ironically, Bill Nighy's character is also among the strongest strength of the movie as well.

Bill Nighy, however, presents one of the best dry humor portrayals of any assassin in any movie and the laughs are poignant and tangy with a sharpness that defies description. Nighy's dispassionate killer personality. What makes Nighy's character even more intriguing and transparent revealing fascinating undertones is his relationship in the movie to his mother, exposing a mult-layered character early the movie.

SMITH But marketing more as a big blockbuster there is more of the exaggerated, bigger than life performances and character stereotypes rather than the more subtle, refined comedy found in WILD TARGET. What is really sorely missing in most of the movie after the beginning sequences is the belief that Victor Maynard is really a capable assassin. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of this movie is Emily Blunt's character as Rose whose almost careless and selfish presentation well into the movie also seems to clash with the appeal of the movie turning Rose almost into an off-putting character.

However, it is just such a rogue character that enables Rose's character development to be even more meaningful and powerful by the end of the movie. It appears that the director was able to maintain the delicate balance tensions within the movie and keep the overall tone of the movie carefully intact. The-Sarkologist 28 December This movie was picked up at the video shop so as to make up the four DVDs that I was hiring for the cheap price, and as it turned out, this was the better of the four movies that I hired.

Victor Maynard is 54 and an assassin. He has no friends, and the only family he has is his mother, who lives in a nursing home, and is his only source of company other than his cat. She is very well aware of his occupation, and he has gone into his father's profession, and is mother is quite a piece of work as well. However life is about to change for Maynard, and it involves a small time thief and con-woman, Rose. She upsets somebody when she 'borrows' a painting, has it copied, and then sells the copy to an art collector, who quickly discovers that it is a copy.

So he hires Victor Maynard to get even with Rose. However, Maynard discovers that not all contracts are equal, and that it can be hard to separate professionalism from emotion. It is not that Maynard falls in love with her, he eventually does, but not at the beginning. He simply cannot kill her. No matter how hard he tries, she just seems to continue to slip through his fingers, and it is only when she discovers him, and he is forced to kill another hit man to uphold his reputation, that he suddenly finds himself being moved from a killer to a protector.