Product Details

• Actors: Daryl Hannah, Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, Eric Mabius, Alex Rocco
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 13, 2004
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000TSQJS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,199 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Job" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A ruthless and sexy hitwoman named cj is contractd to perform one final job before she leaves the life of cold-blooded killing behind forever. As she seeks out her last victim it might be too late. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Daryl Hannah Brad Renfro Run time: 86 minutes Rating: R

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable attempt at depicting depravity, March 29, 2005

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Jonathan Appleseed - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Job (DVD)

There are several positives about this film. There are also some negatives, and the two balance each other out to a reasonable three star review.

One gets a sense that the producers were aiming for something along the lines of Requiem for a Dream - a movie that had me contemplating the merits of suicide when I finished watching it (not really). The aim was definitely for such intense depravity that the viewer would be sucked into horrid despair.

Daryl Hannah (C.J.) put in a credible performance of a hit woman "gone soft". It's unlikely that she would have been in such a state if her mark weren't a husband and his pregnant wife while she was pregnant herself. There we have a positive and a negative combined. Terrific, persuasive performance, tainted by a "just so happens" type of circumstance. That's clumsy writing.

I enjoyed the flashbacks to C.J.'s childhood. We often see hardened characters on the screen without any understanding as to what steeled them. Here we know - and this explanation is not tainted. It's rather sad and moving.

Initially I thought that the introduction of a former priest (Eric Mabius as Rick) to the production was rather cheap and on the cheesy side. Why in the world would someone so wholesome and pure be so interested in such damaged goods? The answer is rather simple. He was a former priest. You can leave the frock behind, but you can't leave the desire to save people behind. He recognized someone in desperate need of salvation and refused to let go. One imagines, and must forgive, that there was an obvious physical attraction on his part; otherwise, he would not have been so interested. Still, it wasn't as unbelievable as I initially thought.

Brad Renfro, who is unfortunately losing his hair and his boyish good looks, is still a good actor, and demonstrates believably that he is a man trying to do good by his wife, who, on top of being a reformed hooker, is also self-absorbed. For example, when he comes back to the motel with a gunshot wound, her first question is, "Did you sell it?" That was, of course, in reference to the drugs. She didn't care about his physical well-being.

As with any movie fueled at least partly by action sequences, there were some rather unbelievable sequences. Could a woman who JUST gave birth to a baby really leave that baby lying on the table (is she truly that evil or selfish?) and run, full speed, trying to escape death? I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on TV, but I would imagine that after giving birth - a difficult birth - that such physical activities would have been improbably, if not impossible.

The ending is rather puzzling. There is a climax, and a dénouement. I had questions regarding both. Mainly, people shot in the stomach usually aren't capable of hauling themselves halfway across town. Stomach wounds are supposed to be considerably painful. Concerning the dénouement, I'll say two things: she was shot in the stomach (so how did she...??) and Rick was absent. Not only was there another physical improbability, the film didn't wrap things up as well as it could have. I suppose that if Rick were present, one could argue that the ending was cheesy, but he was a savior figure. Saviors usually see things all the way through.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars AND HOW WAS YOUR DAY TODAY?, April 23, 2005

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Job (DVD)

THE JOB is a puzzling movie. As a character study, it succeeds mainly due to Daryl Hannah's draining performance, and Eric Mabius' interesting portrait of an ex-priest whose carnal desires still yield to his former profession. Hannah plays a hitwoman who discovers she's pregnant, and lo and behold, her latest "job" is a young couple, the wife also pregnant. Hannah's dilemma is explained with rather tragic flashbacks from her childhood, and she has the boss from hell played with venomous ferocity by the late Alex Rocco. Brad Renfro and Dominique Swain play the young couple who turn to selling drugs to purchase an ideal life. As the movie progresses, though, we begin to wonder who is worse? Hannah the hitwoman or Swain the self-centered, vicious wife?
Some of the action sequences are not very realistic; how can non-professionals like Renfro and Swain be such good shots with guns, topping a professional? The ending is also a disappointment as it plainly doesn't make much sense.
Still, THE JOB deserves credit for its unique approach to an unusual situation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting script!, March 26, 2005

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Job (DVD)

This script has several points which eventually will engage you. A young couple fascinated by the idea of making easy money; a female cold blood assassin with serious emotional conflicts never resolved from her childhood , supported by dreamingly fly backs ad finally a man who will fall in love with...

The mother instinct will work out as a fundamental device and dramatic spring ; both women practically will turn the orders and the male plains.

The greed, the violence and the redemption will blend in this dark picture with Hannah as the merciless murderer without any scruple. Twenty grand is the cipher.

Good camera work and an intriguing thriller that gets its aim.