Bullet to the Head (2012)

After watching their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Director:

Walter Hill

Writers:

Alessandro Camon (screenplay), Alexis Nolent (based on the graphic novel "Du plomb dans la tête" by),

Stars:

Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Jason Momoa

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sylvester Stallone	...	James Bonomo
Sung Kang	...	Taylor Kwon
Sarah Shahi	...	Lisa
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Robert Nkomo Morel
Jason Momoa	...	Keegan
Christian Slater	...	Marcus Baptiste
Jon Seda	...	Louis Blanchard
Holt McCallany	...	Hank Greely
Brian Van Holt	...	Ronnie Earl
Weronika Rosati	...	Lola
Dane Rhodes	...	LT. Lebreton
Marcus Lyle Brown	...	Detective Towne
Andrew Austin-Peterson	...	Crawfish Hollow Band
Paul Etheredge	...	Crawfish Hollow Band
Robert Cavan Carruth	...	Crawfish Hollow Band

Storyline

After watching their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

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Plot Keywords:

hitman | based on comic | based on graphic novel | kung fu | police officer | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence, bloody images, language, some nudity and brief drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 February 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Headshot

Filming Locations:

Kenner, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$4,548,201 (USA) (1 February 2013)

Gross:

$9,483,821 (USA) (8 March 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dark Castle Entertainment, IM Global, After Dark Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sylvester Stallone's character is named James "Jimmy Bobo" Bonomo. In Oscar, Stallone's character talked about his first job, working for James "Jumpin' Jimmy" Bonomo. In both movies, Stallone has a daughter named Lisa, and both films include hitmen as central characters.

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Goofs

Near the end, Bonomo meets Kwon in a bar and he is drinking his 2 Bullets bourbon again. When they finish talking, Bonomo is shown tilting his glass all the way back to empty the glass. But when he puts the glass on the bar, we clearly see a small amount of bourbon left in the glass.

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Quotes

[first lines]
James Bonomo: The guy I just saved is a cop. That's not the usual way I do things, but sometimes you gotta abandon your principles and do what's right.

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Connections

Referenced in The Cinema Snob: 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2013)

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Soundtracks

"Family"
Written by Jay Weigel
Courtesy of Floating City Press

User Reviews

Classic video game script made into an action movie

This movie plays out exactly like a video game, complete with a Blackberry that feeds objectives and information. The bad guys give up info way too easy. Sung Gang is wooden and completely cliché for the good cop role.

That said, if you can live with the video game flow, its a decent action flick with plenty of violence that warrants the title of the film. Stallone is, well he's Stallone, nothing surprising there. Jason Momoa is decent as the killer. To be honest, he's actually a better actor than the script he is given. You don't (or shouldn't) watch these movies for great acting anyway. It delivers on the action mostly and violence totally. They even threw in a couple nude scenes with no point to the story line just to give it that earlier 80's action movie feel before they all started going PG and PG-13.

I give it a 6 because it was only slightly worse than I expected. Classic action movie that seemed like it might have been scripted for a game before it was scripted for movie.