Grosse Pointe Blank

Martin Blank (John Cusack) is a depressed, moralistic hitman. He has a psychiatrist who doesn't want to see him and a profession he's stuck in. Then comes a notice about his ten year high-school reunion in Grosse Pointe and his secretary convinces him to go. Most painful about Grosse Pointe is the girl he left behind on prom night, Debi (Driver). Also creating current problems is an anarchistic hitman called The Grocer (Aykroyd) who wants to start a hitman union and one way or another, he wants Blank to join. Blank refuses so Grocer sics a couple Federal agents on his tail who follow him everywhere. As Martin tries to patch things up with the expectedly angered Debi, other hitman come gunning for him and he runs into old pals, finding out where they are ten years later. This is a high-concept black comedy that just doesn't quite make it. Granted, it does have some very humorous moments and some very original scenes, but there just aren't enough of them and ulitimately it feels like there was a lot of missed jokes that could have been used. The hitman plot is also played a lot more than the reunion plot which doesn't show up until the final third of the movie, and only for a brief period. Cusack fits very nicely into the role of a yuppie hitman and plays it very well which makes the film fun to watch.