"Wild Target"

This is Theater of the Absurd at its best. If you can relate to its ridiculous premise: the "hero," played to perfection by Bill Nighy, is positively hilarious as an assassin for hire -- extremely expensive (because he's the best in the business!), who has never before failed in an assignment, but this time, his target, a beautiful thief, played by Emily Blunt, somehow, unknowingly keeps evading him, and eventually after a shootout in which he inadvertently saves her life -- or was it the inept, innocent Rupert Grint (remember him as the Weasley boy in Harry Potter?) who accidently shoots the assassin who was hired to fulfill the contract against the art thief. Grint becomes Nighy's apprentice, because he's a "natural." Rupert Everett, not usually in comedies, is the 'victim' of the art swindle perpetrated by Blunt, who hired an expert art restorer to forge a Rembrant painting, which she sells to Rupert Everett, -- When he discovers he has been swindled, he is out for revenge. (hence he hires a different assassin to kill her.) You have to enjoy silly, impossible situations, with zany twists and turns, (played absolutely straight faced) to truly appreciate the genius of this film. (Blunt hires Nighy to be her body guard. It's a totally implausable relationship. because he's still supposed to kill her, but...) I gladly, happily give it FOUR STARS. (Despite the fact that it's a British film, I could understand all the dialogue, and it was marvelous.) Congratulations to the Director, Jonathan Lynn. Thanks! SP