Not one of the best films ever made, but I loved every minute. John, and Joan, Cusack were brilliant as an assassin and his 'secretary' who tries to get him to go to his 10 year High School re-union. Alan Arkin is outstanding as a weary shrink who is trying not to get involved with a guy who he knows kills people for a living. One exchange between the two has Cusack asking if he should go to the re-union, to which Arkin replies, 'Yes Go, and try not to kill any one' to which Cusack comes back with, 'sure I'll give it a shot', which has Arkin desperately saying, 'No, don't shoot anything'. It's also got Dan Ackroyd in a fairly straight role for him, which he still manages to make very humorous as a rival assassin trying to unionise the profession. Lots of black humour, everytime someone asks him what he does for a living, Cusack usually replies with 'a professional killer', which of course no-one take seriously. The cast is great, the story good, it's full of action, a little romance, some brilliant fight scenes and a sound track, that Quentin Tarantino would be proud of.
Review of Grosse Pointe Blank
