this film hold 7 . 0 rating on imdb and so even i sense something rotten in it synopsis i decide to try it out . what a waste of 100 minute . first of all and the 80 be not a good decade for crime and thriller genre . most of these and in those day be badly do with silly plot ( if they have any ) and so there be very few that can stand out and and even if they be good they be still not very good . the hit and however suffers from everything that make silly crime picture silly . it have poor character development and improbable plot and wasn not write or direct in a decent manner and and when you have such shortcoming the act doesn not help . stephen frears often try to emulate french new wave in english style film making and the two do not match . first of all terence stamp be 10 year in hiding because he testify against some of his former partner in crime . he hide in spain and of all place . he be finally catch up with and and than first kidnap by a group of silly look spanish thug and just do be drive away some distance to the two hit man that be suppose to deal with him . these two be john hurt and who be suppose to be hard boil and stone cold killer and and tim roth ( in his first role ) a the devil apprentice . they do not kill stamp right away and they first dispose of the three amigo and they shouldn not have hire in the first place and and then and they be drive stamp to paris and because one of the buddy he testify against want to confront him . ok that possible . but even with stamp be such a dangerous figure that they have to hire four guy to overpower him and they do not tie him down and do not incapacitate him in any way and and drive around with him and like he one of the buddy . stamp doesn not object and be happily go to paris to be shoot and not use any of a half a dozen chance and these professional offer for him to escape . than it appear that tim roth be just a school boy bully and make the idea of big crime bos team him up with a hard core hit man like john hurt and even more improbable and especially on an important job like that . but than john hurt be not so hard core himself and he spend twenty minute of the movie and kill or not kill the totally surplus australian and play by bill hunter and whose only purpose in this film be to introduce the lovely laura del sol and his mistress ( who he say be 15 and but she look more like 25 ) and and whose role in the story and act capability suggest that she be offer the role and solely on the basis of be the director or producer mistress at the time . after much deliberation and hurt kill the australian but take along his mistress for no apparent reason . than he want to kill her but roth with his subtle way convince him not to and so even she kick him and bite him and scratch him through the entire movie and he stay true to that deeply bury human side of him . than you have plain idiotic scene and like when hurt and roth lock the car from the outside and try to prevent the people inside from get out . anyway the movie drag on . tim roth fall asleep and guard terence stamp with his gun on his chest and and stamp just wait there watch the waterfall . than the whole shamble of a plot come to the point where everything we have see in the last hour and 20 minute just go out through the window . let recapitulate and the whole point in not kill stamp right away ( except for have a movie ) be to take him to paris and so his former partner be to have a last word with him . and the whole point in him not run away be that he be prepared to die and say it just a moment . be here . then be not here . be somewhere else . maybe . and it as natural a breathing . why should we be scar . but my friend and here be where the plot twist and hurt kill the man while still in spain and and we ask why bother and drive around for day and he could have do it in the first 15 minute and and than contrary to his philosophy stamp be very afraid of be kill and so we ask again why do not he run and and he have plenty chance . roth get kill too and but he shouldn not be in the movie at all and and del sol and well she promise a role in this film purely for romantic ( read sexual ) reason and so she stay alive again and even she attack hurt for the 15th time in the movie . he kill all the others and but not her and she must have maximum screen appearance . the movie be make on a shoe string budget and it show and but when you have no story and card board characterization and it show even more . and yes fernando ray appear and go through the movie a the guest star and have a single audible line of dialog . awful .