MGM
Directed by Billy Wilder
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Rarefilmm)
Walter Matthau is a stone-faced hit man who gets interrupted by depressed, suicidal Jack Lemmon staying in an adjacent hotel room. He talks him off the ledge, then unsuccessfully attempts to get rid of him the rest of the movie. Matthau ends up incapacitated at a sex clinic run by Klaus Kinski, but Lemmon is so indebted to Matthau he decides to carry out the last hit. He bumbles his way through it but eventually succeeds. Matthau retires to Tahiti... but you-know-who shows up. The final shot of Lemmon walking away with a topless native girl exemplifies the bad taste of this movie. It is never funny, Lemmon overacts, Matthau needs to relax and Kinski is wasted.
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