History Film / TheBigHit

* RichesToRags: Nishi.

* GoldDigger: Chantel more or less sees Melvin as a wallet. Pam is a bit more subtle, but apparently not that different.

* ATruceWhileWeGawk: In the final fight between Melvin and Cisco, the fight pauses abruptly as Cisco is suddenly distracted. Melvin turns to see a giant poster of Crunch, with the caption "Customer of the Year - Adult Section".

* CodeName: During the kidnapping, the team refers to themselves as GilligansIsland characters. Vince is Gilligan, Crunch is The Professor, Melvin is Skipper.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At the beginning of the movie, Crunch claims to have only just discovered masturbation; he explains that he has been sleeping with women since he first entered puberty, and never had to resort to gratifying himself. However, he has recently discovered it, and has now decided that it's the best possible form of sex, something that comes up [[BrickJoke again and again during the film]]
* DistressedDamsel: Three unnamed teenaged girls, abducted by the white slavery ring. While Melvin takes out most people within the room, he makes sure that these three are unharmed, effectively rescuing them.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. Hitman Melvin (white Mark Wahlberg) is suspected of betraying his employer (black Avery Brooks), who sends Cisco (mixed-race Lou Diamond Phillips) and two gunmen (one black, one East Asian) to confront him at his house. The four have a tense standoff sitting at Melvin's kitchen table, when his girlfriend's drunk father (Elliot Gould), walks in and remarks how happy he is to see four young men of different races sitting together in friendship, in contrast to his wife's rejection of Melvin as a future son-in-law for not being Jewish.

* RichesToRags: Nishi.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Paris.

* TheDon: Paris is African-American but otherwise plays this straight.

* LimaSyndrome: Melvin develops protective feelings and then a romantic attraction to Keiko. The girl he helped kidnap.
** Keiko eventually [[StockholmSyndrome returns the feelings.]]
* OhCrap: Cisco, when Paris reveals the seriousness of the kidnapping. Luckily for him, it comes off as sympathetic outrage.

** Keiko eventually [[HelsinkiSyndrome returns the feelings.]]

* JewishMother, JewsLoveToFight, JewishAmericanPrincess, YouHaveToHaveJews, AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Pam and her parents.

* JewishMother, JewishFamiliesLoveToFight, JewishAmericanPrincess, YouHaveToHaveJews, AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Pam and her parents.
** MatzohFever: Melvin, I guess, for being engaged to Pam.

* OhShit: Cisco, when Paris reveals the seriousness of the kidnapping. Luckily for him, it comes off as sympathetic outrage.

* {{Seppuku}}: Jiro is actually seen chanting (presumably reciting his death poem) while taking a short sword to his belly. It is the phone call of the kidnappers which interrupts the ceremony.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Melvin has no problem gunning down rooms of armed mooks but is driven to distraction trying to entertain his in-laws.

* ExactWords: Keiko is ordered to read a written down ransom speech to be sent to her father. Said speech happens to be riddled with typos, so she makes sure to read it exactly as written and emphasizing the misspelled words.

'''The Big Hit''' is a 1998 action comedy, directed by KirkWong. The director was previously known for such films as (among others) ''HealthWarning'' (1982) and ''CrimeStory'' (1993). It is the story of a HitmanWithAHeart. Only that heart is causing him much trouble. The main stars were MarkWahlberg, LouDiamondPhillips, and ChinaChow, with key roles played by LelaRochon, ChristinaApplegate, AveryBrooks and SabShimono.

The film was a modest box office hit. It earned an estimated 27,007,143 dollars in the United States market, the 68th most successful film of its year. It more than covered its modest budget. It performed quite poorly with critics, however. Being full of bullets, explosions and wacky characters, the film was hardly considered a classic. Scott Weinberg summed it as "a whole lot of stupid comic-book-style fun", and others pointed out that Wong has spent much of his career in the Hong Kong film industry, making the film more of an attempt to transfer the "Hong Kong action movie to Hollywood". This has not prevented the film from getting an audience among fans of action flicks and over-the-top comedies.

!!This Film Provides Examples Of:

''Everyone just kind of looks at him''

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At the beginning of the movie, Crunch claims to have only just discovered masturbation; he explains that he has been sleeping with women since he first entered puberty, and never had to resort to gratifying himself. However, he has recently discovered it, and has now decided that it's the best possible form of sex, something that comes up [[BrickJoke again and again during the film]]

* DateRapeAverted: Melvin's way of kidnapping Keiko is replacing the limo driver which is supposed to take Keiko and her boyfriend home. Said boyfriend uses the limo ride in attempt to rape her. Melvin immediately ends said boyfriend's life with a bullet.

* MeLoveYouLongTime: Name checked. Keiko's initial boyfriend is Caucasian. While attempting to rape her, the jerk quotes two phrases from ''FullMetalJacket'': "Me sucky-sucky" ... "Me love you long time". By implication calling his "girlfriend" an Asian whore.

* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Keiko spends the entire film is her college uniform, which fits the typical depiction of a catholic school girl uniform.

* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Chantel keeps her money in one of these. When Melvin finds out, he finaly realizes that she never payed those bills. And that she was using him.

Melvin "Mel" Smiley (Wahlberg) is a mild-mannered man and a ruthlessly efficient [[CareerKillers Career Killer]], but his good nature allows his co-workers to take advantage of him. They alternatively ask him of favors, like disposing corpses for them, or claim credit and bonuses for his hits. He still earns good money from his job, but Mel is actually spending most of it in maintaining two seperate residences and live-in partners. The first is Chantel (Rochon), his African-American girlfriend, who is fully aware of his line of work and keeps making financial demands on him. The other is Pam Shulman (Applegate), his Jewish-American fiancée, who is unaware of what he does for living, but still wants him to support both herself and her formerly well-to-do family.

* CareerKillers: Melvin, Cisco and various minor characters.

* TakeThat: Keiko's first reaction upon seeing her assembled kidnappers (one black, one hispanic, two white) is ask if they're "the [[SpiceGirls Spice Boys]]"

-->'''Cisco''': Shut the fuck up!

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At the beginning of the movie, Crunch doesn't even seem to know what masturbation is; he explains that he has been sleeping with women since he first entered puberty, and never had to resort to gratifying himself. One of the other characters explains it to him, and from that point on in the movie, he's shown using a grip-strengthener, deciding between bottles of lotion, and at the end [[BrickJoke there's a poster of him as "Customer of the Year" in the Adult Video section of a video store]].