Mr. DuLac’s review published on Letterboxd:
If we were rich and didn't have to kill him, we could pay him just to make those cookies for us all the time.
-Daisy
Geoffrey Fletcher won the 2010 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his debut work on Precious. Here he makes his directorial debut from his second produced screenplay. This is nowhere near what I expected. At all. Not even close. If this is how his mind works when it's free to create without the constraints of adapting someone else's work then I want to see more.
Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan are Violent and Daisy, professional assassins who seemingly have the personalities of 12 year old girls. They're blowing people away in surprisingly violent gun fights with a swear word or two possibly slipping out and the next moment they're playing patty cake while day dreaming about buying the new Barbie Sunday dress that just came out. I inexplicably found them charming as hell. It was also nice to have two female leads in a film like this without them being sexualized in any way.
They're sent to kill Michael played by James Gandolfini. Things go astray when not only does Michael not put up a fight for his life, but he seems to welcome the "hit". This throws the girls completely off their game and of course the life lessons soon come... or do they? Gandolfini was always great at playing the guy with the hidden motives, but he could do it as a sweet man or as a dangerous man. He has a surprisingly good chemistry with the girls too, which is good since the bulk of the film is the relationship between these three characters.
The film is a bit of a mess tonely and could have benefited from Fletcher giving totally in to the weird, quirky, violent world he attempted to create. It feels like he might of held back a bit and he shouldn't have. He should have gone for broke. Still enjoyed it though and I'm looking forward to see what else comes from the mind of Geoffrey Fletcher.