Paco Cabezas directs Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick and Tim Roth in this quirky romantic crime comedy where an outrageous girl falls for a hitman with a heart.

A cute romantic pairing, full of charisma and the costume designers love dressing them. Like the recent The Fall Guy, this is constantly on, in overdrive. And that can be exhausting. There’s no sense of timing or scale so Mr. Right is just a constant onslaught of idiosyncrasy. At least Blunt / Gosling had a stupendous budget to zing off each other constantly in. This clearly wants to be Grosse Pointe Blank or Something Wild but there’s no breathing room. Those cult classics had their soulful downtime, just a hint of depth to them. This is all sassy, poppy surface and you just observe the end product passively wishing for Rockwell and Kendrick to find a better project together.

5

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