A film based on a true story has achieved a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and it's just been added to Netflix.
If you'd already sped your way through the second season of a 'brutal' Irish crime drama which landed on the streaming service, alongside a series which left viewers 'too scared to sleep' then how about a comedy about a hit man based on a real person to lighten the mood a bit?
Granted, it seems a bit peculiar to make a comedy about a hitman, however, all is not quite as it seems.
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The 2023 release - titled Hit Man - was produced and directed by Richard Linklater - best known for hits such as School of Rock and Boyhood - and stars the likes of Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick), Adria Arjona (Andor) and Retta (Parks and Recreation).
The film focuses on the character of a man named Gary Johnson, a college professor and technology whizz who ends up pretending to be a hitman.
Why? Well, so he can catch people out who are trying to actually hire a hitman.
And the character is actually based on a real life person too.
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The Netflix film is loosely based on the true story of man of the same name - Gary Johnson.
In the 1980s and 90s, the real Johnson indeed posted as a hit man for the Houston police.
A 2001 Texas Monthly article written by Skip Hollandsworth detailed Johnson's incredible story, branding him the 'Lawrence Olivier' of fake police hit men. Both Linklater and Powell ended up stumbling across it, Linklater telling UNILAD they must've discovered it '19 years apart, maybe 20'.
And it hasn't taken long for viewers to be captivated by the story too since it was released onto Netflix earlier today (7 June).
Hit Man has achieved an exciting Rotten Tomatoes' tomatometer score of 97 percent, alongside an audience score of 95 which one social media user noted is 'well deserved'.
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And it's not taken long for the love of the comedy to spill over onto X too.
One user wrote: "I just finished it, this role must’ve been so much fun to film for Glen Powell. He absolutely KILLED IT. (Well, I guess not 'Kill.')."
"I woke up this morning and while I was getting ready I remembered Hit Man came out on Netflix, so I threw it on and wound up watching the first 30 minutes again. Richard Linklater and Glen Powell wrote a damn near perfect screenplay and it’s so immediately apparent," another added.
And a third commented: "Damn he helped write it? you go glen coco."
Topics: Entertainment, Film, Rotten Tomatoes, TV and Film, Netflix, US News
Poppy Bilderbeck