John Cusack and Minnie Driver hammer
out a love-hate relationship in a black romantic comedy so thick
with irony that watching it is like watching two people fall in
love on the David Letterman show, if you can imagine that. The
dialogue is hip and witty, but the love story is straight out
of a 1960s Doris Day movie, and at times, the script seems to
be groaning under decades of stress. Cusack plays a smooth, amoral
hit man who decides to return to the affluent suburb where he
grew up for his high school reunion. Driver plays the girl who
has been conveniently waiting for him for 10 years. Well, it's
convenient for him. Grosse Pointe Blank is funny,
forgettable, and aimed directly at viewers between the ages of
29 and 33. Everyone else may wonder what the hell is going on.
--Stacey Richter
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