A comedy about assassins. That's how it's sold. But it is more than that; it's 'Reaganomics' with a rifle. The subtext for this film is archly Conservative. The bad guy (Aykroyd) is forming a Union with foreign contract killers and he wants Cusack to join him. Cusack remarks twice that people don't buy American (cars) anymore. In his visit home for the High School reunion we get dollops of nostalgia. The music is mostly from the 'Eighties, Clash, Beat, etc. Ah, how good the good old days were.

     It has some fine scenes, the Doom sequence for instance, and some laughs. It has only two of the three magic ingredients for an American blockbuster, disrespect for authority and destruction of property. Just watch it after a couple of beers when it will be funnier.

Reviewed by Suzy Kuba.