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23% Tomatometer 74 Reviews 46% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant and the world's deadliest assassin--known only as The Man from ...
Jun 24, 2022 · The Man from Toronto: Directed by Patrick Hughes. With Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Jasmine Mathews, Kaley Cuoco. The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Patrick Hughes
- 2022-06-24
Jun 24, 2022 · A Netflix comedy action film starring Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson as a loser and a hitman who get mixed up in a plot involving the FBI and a mysterious woman. Critic Odie Henderson calls it a \"hodgepodge of so many other movies\" that is \"obnoxious, unbelievable and dull\".
Jun 24, 2022 · A retro action-comedy with Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson as a bumbling salesman and a hitman. The film is nostalgic, fun and light-hearted, but suffers from a bloated finale and underdeveloped female characters.
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By Tara Bennett
Posted: Jun 24, 2022 1:00 am
The Man from Toronto premieres on June 24 exclusively on Netflix.
Director Patrick Hughes continues to expand his hitman-centered body of work, following up on his The Hitman’s Bodyguard films with Netflix’s The Man from Toronto. Woody Harrelson is the deadly hitman and Kevin Hart is a small-town dope who accidentally creates a scenario that gets him confused as the assassin. Forced to share space, the two go from enemies to somewhat allies in a farcical adventure that offers some laughs and a couple creative action sequences. It never reaches the heights of other films in this genre, like Midnight Run or The Rundown, but it’s a fun summer watch.
As Teddy is a mess professionally and personally, he at least wants to make his wife Lori’s (Jasmine Mathews) birthday a success so he rents a cabin in Virginia to give her a special weekend. He drops her off for a spa day to set up the rental but realizes he can’t quite read the address on his print out because he didn’t change the printer toner, so he bumbles his way into the wrong cabin that is actually the setting for the Man from Toronto’s next interrogation. The mistaken identity sets the stage for a huge blunder that involves the FBI needing Teddy to act like he’s Toronto to help stop an international incident. Meanwhile, the real assassin is pissed that he lost a high-paying gig, through no fault of his own, and seeks to acquire Teddy so he can finish the job right and get the payday. What ensues is Teddy and Toronto having to help one another so Teddy can get home to his wife and Toronto can get his last big payday and get out of the business.
Comedically, the movie gives audiences who appreciate Hart everything they love about the comedian. There’s the self-deprecating height jokes, the nervous, rapid-fire rants, and 10 out of 10 reactions to his impending bodily harm. Hughes also gives Hart plenty of real estate to riff his way through several interrogation scenes that earn some big laughs, and even some dry heaves due to Teddy’s reaction to some actual violence. Those scenarios do get a little repetitive by the midpoint of the film, and could have used some surgical editing to tighten up the pace, which does drag.
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The Man from Toronto follows the blueprint of other, better opposites in peril genre movies, but it’s still entertaining. Kevin Hart takes point on the comedy front, where his motormouth delivery works well for his fearful character. Harrelson plays the straight man, badass killer vibe with verve, with some witty flourishes that flesh out the man u...
A mixed review of the Netflix comedy action film starring Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson. The film gets points for its creative action sequences and Hart's humor, but suffers from a slow pace and a weak supporting cast.
Jun 24, 2022 · The New York Times. Jun 30, 2022. In The Man From Toronto, directed by Patrick Hughes, the vague sense of location is typical of a broader lack of effort. Although Hart, as the broadly comic version of the classic Hitchcockian Wrong Man, has a certain goofball charm, his frantic coward routine gets old quickly, with no appreciable change as the ...
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