The Virtuoso

2021
15
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

5.0/10

10K

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Anthony Hopkins, Abbie Cornish, and Anson Mount in The Virtuoso (2021)

Danger, deception, and murder descend upon a sleepy country town when a professional assassin (Anson Mount) accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic mentor and boss (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins). Given only where and when along with a cryptic clue, the methodical hit man must identify his mysterious mark from among several possible targets, including a local sheriff (David Morse). Meanwhile, a chance encounter with an alluring woman (Abbie Cornish) at the town's rustic diner threatens to derail his mission in this noir-style cloak-and-dagger thriller.

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Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.

Director
- Nick Stagliano
Writers
- James C. Wolf
- Nick Stagliano
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.0/10

10K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Nick Stagliano
Writers
- James C. Wolf
- Nick Stagliano
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Featured review

8/10

Actually I enjoyed it

REVIEW - THE VIRTUOSO

Now I always say that films are like music, we all have different tastes and none can be a better example of this than the Virtuoso.

With a current rating of 4 out of 10 on IMDB AND as its new out I thought I'd give it a look see.

Actually I really enjoyed the film from start to finish, just proving what I've said above.

During the story you follow a hit man through a number of jobs, until he is given one in a sleepy town where no one is as they seem.

Very good writing, acting excellent and just simply a very enjoyable film, as the hit man tries to establish who his next target is.

I guessed very early in the film but this did not detract from the film as a whole.

If you want a story, great acting then this is one to try.

Rating 8 out of 10.

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Trivia
The coded note The Virtuoso receives at the start of the film reads:

"Once there was a worn and withered old man too set in his ways, bound by routine to have the fore-sight to understand that in all his seventy-six years he's always done the same thing, ate the same food, chose the same colors, won the same battles. His life a breathing pentagon: home, work, rest, eat, dream. From age eighteen he'd never questioned his lot. Until, the trinity... and the agony of realization that a life lived can never be re-lived."

Goofs
The Virtuoso spends a large part of the movie explaining his meticulous nature, and spends most of the movie being incredibly cautious. However, when tending to Johnnie's girlfriend, he opens the cap to a peroxide bottle with his mouth, leaving DNA everywhere. He then moves and plugs the space heater in with his bare hands, leaving his prints everywhere, all while holding his gloves instead of wearing them.

The cap of a peroxide bottle is hardly "everywhere" and why should he worry about DNA or prints. In rural, out-of-the-way towns, CSI teams don't turn out for burglaries gone bad.