Glen Powell Hit Man Netflix Review: Stream It Or Skip It? [Video]

At long last, we can finally watch Hit Man, the hyped collaboration between It Man in Hollywood Glen Powell and director Richard Linklater. Netflix famously snatched up the film for $20 million after its Toronto International Film Festival debut, and then the streamer made us wait and wait and wait, an annoying strategy for those of us who think Linklater is an underappreciated genius auteur. But it’s a smart one for Netflix, since Powell has wedged himself on the cusp of A-lister status by helping make Anyone But You an across-the-boards big hit, and anchoring upcoming disaster-flick sequel Twisters. The director and actor previously worked together for Everybody Wants Some!! – note: wonderful, wonderful movie – and co-wrote and -produced Hit Man together, basing it loosely on a real-life story written by journalist Skip Hollandsworth (who co-wrote 2011’s Berniewith Linklater), about an unassuming man who worked undercover for the cops, pretending to be a hired killer so they can …