Netflix customers are stating a light-hearted discrepancy with its newest chart-topping new movie Hit Man.
After a restricted launch in cinemas, the brand new venture from Faculty of Rock and Boyhood director Richard Linklater arrived on the streaming service on Friday (7 June).
The movie has received acclaim from viewers, with many hailing one specific scene as a future traditional in addition to the chemistry of its lead stars Glen Powell and Adria Arjona.
Linklater’s comedy tells the “considerably true story” of an undercover police contractor named Gary Johnson (Powell) who unexpectedly discovers he can pose as a dependable hitman to carry down these enlisting his “providers”.
Within the movie, Gary, who’s a professor of psychology and philosophy on the University of New Orleans, is depicted as a nerdy fowl watching-enthusiast with a “forgettable face”, which makes his transition into the hitmen he performs, together with the suave Ron, extra spectacular.
One second sees Gary’s evolution seen by his college students, with one asking: “Excuse me, when did our professor get sizzling?”
Regardless of loving Powell’s efficiency within the movie, some viewers had been left unconvinced by his casting, believing him to be too charismatic to drag off somebody being thought of uncool.
“Simply began Hit Man and I have already got an issue with this film. There’s no method they need me to assume that Glen Powell isn’t a Cool Man,” one viewer wrote, with one other including: “Hit Man is an efficient movie however they’re not fooling anybody with the concept clearly very handsome Glen Powell is thought to be a dorky loser by his college students (wow, you gave him a pair of glasses, he nonetheless seems like Glen Powell!)”
One extra consumer said: “Probably the most unrealistic a part of Hit Man is when somebody feedback that Glen Powell has a forgettable face,” whereas one other posted on X/Twitter: “HIT MAN is a pleasing sufficient time passer however it by no means actually works since you purchase Powell as a suave hitman however not as a nerd pretending to be a suave hitman.”
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One other wrote: “Glen Powell is so splendidly miscast in Hit Man. He’s simply method too sizzling for the position.”
In the meantime, the scene during which the scholars “realise their professor is sizzling” was branded “the dumbest second” by one other viewer.
Powell’s position in Hit Man follows an look in 2016 Linklater movie All people Needs Some!! and 2022 blockbuster High Gun: Maverick alongside Tom Cruise. He’ll subsequent star in motion catastrophe movie Twisters. The actor co-wrote Hit Man alongside Linklater.
