‘Hit Man’ review: Glen Powell gets it in gear, in a hired-assassin Netflix movie for the rest of us

In “Hit Man,” Glen Powell co-stars with Adria Arjona in a New Orleans true-ish story about a pretend assassin and his latest would-be client. Can a lame haircut turn Glen Powell into a character actor? Here’s two more for you: Is Glen Powell a huge movie star in the making, thanks to “Top Gun: Maverick” andThe answers to those questions are encouraging. I doubt that would’ve been the case four or five years or seven or eight films ago.

Powell’s romantic costar in “Hit Man” is Adria Arjona as flight attendant Madison, a hungry-eyed woman trapped in an abusive marriage. She enters the story first as a woman looking for a sympathetic ear and a potential hit-man lover, then in a more pragmatic, solution-oriented way.

Glen Powell as a New Orleans philosophy professor turned semi-pro fake assassin in director Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man.” Like Steven Soderbergh and precious few other American filmmakers of huge talent and some commercial instincts, Linklater believes in the modestly budgeted genre exercise, especially when he can turn genres on a dime, within one story.

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