Glen Powell is hot right now. So when will there be a better time to make a dark comedy for Netflix than right now?

In Hit Man, Glen Powell played Gary Johnson, a college professor who would moonlight as a tech guy for the New Orleans Police Department. When the undercover officer wound up in trouble, Gary got thrust into the position of pretending to be a hit man for people wanting to hire him to kill someone.

Gary turned out to be very effective at getting these perspective clients to incriminate themselves, making Gary ultra valuable to the NOPD.

When Gary was meeting with a young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona) who wanted to hire him to kill her horrible husband, Gary, under his alias Roy, talked her out of it so she would not incriminate herself.

This led to Madison and “Ray” to begin a secret relationship with each other, leading to all kinds of trouble.

Directed by Richard Linklater, Hit Man is a lot of fun and has some very clever moments. Glen Power and Adria Arjona have sparkling chemistry and you find yourself rooting for them despite your better judgement.

I will say though that the ending took a darker turn than I thought and I’m not sure how I felt about it. The very ending is not how I would think this would have worked itself out and I am not sure I buy it.

The film calls itself a “somewhat” true story, as it made up a big section of the ending. Still, it is interesting to see where Linklater gets his inspiration for such a story.

This rom com makes for a decent time at home watching it on Netflix. I am not sure that it would have near the amount of success had it had a theatrical release. As a lazy afternoon watch, Hit Man is a hit.

3.5 stars