I watched Hit and Run on Netflix.
Expected to totally hate it.
It does a lot of things really well. Particularly in the beginning. They make a lot of shooting a scene from the viewpoint of someone spying then revealing the spy, but they also shoot a lot of scenes that way only to reveal there's no spy. Pretty clever bit of filmmaking to keep you engaged and thinking.
Writing was really well done to the point that it kept you guessing until they revealed it all, then kind of shifted gears to a survival gig.
I was invested in the characters and the story. Even though I knew it was going to happen,
Another thing that it did pretty right was not get too big for itself.
- They made a big deal of how much of a bad ass Segev was, but he was no super hero. He took damage, got his ass beat when he was outnumbered, got tired when he ran, and was generally realistic in terms of capabilities.
-Showed difficulty with logistics, information, communication when shit got real.
- Didn't let the story get too big. Kept it all pretty isolated. They knew he couldn't withstand the full weight of either agency so they wrote it accordingly.
There were a couple minor leaps that are a tiny bit hard to believe, but in the grand scheme its one of the more believable flicks out there.
There was also a surprising amount of quippy humor that helped keep it from being too depressing.