macca-missbookworm If you are at all into interested in the following sections of assassination films, with a dark humor meshed with it, classic 90s films and John Cusack you will love this movie. I was intrigued just from the trailer. I watched it and you can see why John is such a successful and great actor, he puts all his effort into films and it just makes them better. I loved the humor of this film, its quite dark, so not to everyone's taste, but I laughed my head off.

alisdair-92528 I love this film the dark comedy and choice of soundtrack is amazing and the cast work so well together . It works on many levels and I have to say it's amazing. John cusaac is a great actor. His ability to portray a dark souls and yet keep aspect of him redeemable and funny. Dan ackroyd is comedic genius and has a good touch of phycopathic lunacy. Joan cusaac has a great ability to to go hot and cold in a blink of an eye is perfection as the put upon assistant. Minnie driver displays a range not seen in her earlier rolls and to be honest not seen since. The whole film set around a hit man reaching a midlife crisis of sorts and having the ability to go back home. Choices made and a future of new found respect for life is fun. The action sequences are completely believable and no gratuitous unrealistic expectations of gun play and hand to hand fighting. The pen really is mightier than the sword.

vostf The pun in the movie title says it all: Grosse Pointe Blank is a brat movie, a movie students could have written (and shot for a portion of the budget) as a joke and a tribute to their teenage years.Basically the dumb thing that cries "mediocre student joke" here is the discrepancy between reality and fantasy. If you're seriously about to make the best movie possible, you have to choose: to spoof or not to spoof. Spoof comedy is OK as long as everything is a joke and that it runs at Mach 3.9; conversely a serious hit-man drama/thriller is OK as long as you stay the course.Spoof is already aiming at the lowest hurdle, but when you just spoof up an otherwise "straight" drama/thriller/romcom... (you name it) that is just blatantly incompetent. Cusack's fans and lenient teenage souls amongst IMDb reviewers rank this movie high yet the average reviewer is bound to be bored by the tone skids, the "funky violence" shootings that bury the attempt to tell a clever story about an isolated hit-man and a rush of nostalgia. Those shootings were gross and plundered a storyline which already verged to much on the spoofy side (cf. Blank's contracts before leaving for Grosse Pointe).

Mr-Fusion I'd love to know if John Cusack actually had to audition for the role of Martin Blank or if it was tailor-made for him. Because it certainly seems to have been. GROSSE POINTE BLANK fits his comically dark persona so perfectly and he's incredible in the movie, as a result. It's got a great hook: a hit-man going back to high school for the ten-year reunion. And I love the movie's sense of humor; a professional killer who's in therapy; that no one takes him seriously when he tells them his trade. And the comedy lends an acuteness to the violent scenes, and things can get kinda nasty. The locker fight, especially, is a terrific scene. It's set to the best song on the soundtrack, it's in your face, and comes out of nowhere. I can't think of another actor who could've pulled it off quite like Cusack.And he fronts a great cast: Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Jeremy Piven, Joan Cusack and especially Dan Aykroyd, who chews the scenery with manic glee. GROSSE POINT BLANK is one of those great '90s movies that you just don't hear enough about; it's got a rock-solid soundtrack, great dialogue and it's one of the best comedies of the decade. 9/10