This movie was everything I wanted it to be! John Cusack, guns, 80's music, wacky character issues like, "what do you do for a living?" "I'm a professional killer." It's Martin Blank's (Cusack) 10 year high school reunion (I know I can relate) and he is a professional killer touching base with his past.

Oh, yeah, but there's also multiple contracts out on multiple heads, unresolved relationship issues with his old girlfriend, played by Minnie Driver, and guns!

It looks like the kind of movie that is done well, is great fun; if done badly, a painful mess like Get Shorty. Guess what? This one is done well! I've always been partial to John Cusack and if you were an eighties teen with a crush on him he is reliving a little of that Better Off Dead charm but it's tempered by his new acting career choices where he plays more of a real grownup - this summer he will be a good-guy badass in ConAir!

Bonus points if you like music like The Violent Femmes. Bring a date or get a bunch of the guys together, it can go both ways. If you are fretting about what you will say at your next high school reunion (or if you skipped yours because you were too embarrassed to say you worked as a phone rep) then you will appreciate our hero's position. Pay full price and enjoy a box of Raisinettes. karina

Grosse Pointe Blank revisited Still great! Maybe it's John Cusack's special brand of upbeat negativity, but this movie works so well! I saw it again last night with a friend who hadn't seen it (and who, of course, loved it) and it's just as much fun the second time around!

Added bonus: Through the amazingness that is my life, we got a special studio preview tape that included a LONG (I mean like 3 minutes) preview for Titanic and Mimic; Titanic, the movie so huge that TWO studios are financing it, and Mimic, which I had heard NOTHING about until this preview. Prognosis good. Titanic looks totally amazing - they built a real boat, and it's so huge and perfect, it looks computer generated. A billion stars and a gazillion gallons of icy water later, and this movie looks like the ride of a lifetime. Yes, this is based on a preview but it really was impressive. Mimic has two Oscar winners and a Tony winner (F. Murray Abraham, Mira Sorvino, and Charles S. Dutton, respectively) and a Relic-like plot idea with mutating DNA creations, but it looks much better than the Relic. Of course, the Relic looked like it could have been something, but hey. It was better than Anaconda. And Anaconda had an Oscar winner and an Oscar nominee (Jon Voight and Eric Stoltz) and that still didn't help. It's going to be a GREAT summer. karina