Top 5 Movies Featuring Hitmen & Assassin Ever Till 2023

There is something smooth and intriguing about the decently ambivalent hitman, which makes assassins absolutely magnetic in the history of movies.

Here are Top 5 Movies Featuring Hitmen & Assassin Ever Till 2023:

1. Pulp Fiction

The all time entertaining and charismatic John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson eminently portrayed hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 black comedy crime masterpiece Pulp Fiction. The critically-acclaimed picture focuses on the lives of the two mob assassins while intertwining with three others plots spinning around a boxer, a gangster and his wife and a pair of diner bandits. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and premiered to fume reviews, with a lot considering it a cultural watershed, influencing innumerable films and media that adopted elements of its style.
The dark comedy has appeared on many critics’ lists of the greatest films ever made, with Entertainment Weekly writing, “Tarantino’s dialogue, with its closely propulsive, roughly lawyerly fervor, its fiery comic blend of literacy and funk, has more snap and fight than most directors’ action scenes.” For their legendary portrayals of the charming and bickering hitmen, both Travolta as well as Jackson received Academy Award nominations.

2. John Wick

Acting chameleon Keanu Reeves headlines the 2014 neo-noir action thriller John Wick, which follows the previous hitman who is strained back into the criminal underworld he dumped after his vintage car is stolen and beloved puppy is murdered. On portraying the character that invigorated his long-lasting career, Reeves expressed that when they first saw him, he’s a guy inconsolable for his lost wife. But it actually turns out he has lived in two worlds: one in which he’s a joyfully married man and one in which he’s an assassin. He has tried to conceal his past, but without his wife, he is lost.”

For the mega hit action flick, Reeves spent almost four months learning Judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Japanese ju-jitsu and showed off his skills in classic combat scenes that were exciting for audiences. The actor’s shining performance and financial success of John Wick led to it becoming a much-loved and fruitful franchise, with John Wick: Chapter 4 set to premier on March 24, 2023.

3. The Bourne Identity

The Oscar-winning as well as the dynamite performer Matt Damon leads the 2002 action-thriller The Bourne Identity, appearing as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from psychogenic amnesia trying to discover his identity while being incurably pursued by assassins. Bourne realizes he has unusual talents in combat, self-defense and linguistic skills, and gradually begins to realize he is a U.S. Army soldier and CIA assassin himself. For the role, Damon suggested on performing many of the stunts himself and underwent three months of enormous training in stunt work, learning to use weapons, boxing and eskrima (or arnis, a form of fencing).
The actor was initially doubtful of the film’s financial prospects and was actually jobless for six months former to being cast, yet his doubts would be proven wrong. The Bourne Identity was both a critical and commercial break hit, kicking off the Jason Bourne franchise that would in due course lead to four highly lucrative sequels.

4. Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Hollywood heavy-hitters and former “It Couple” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie distinctively appeared in the 2005 romantic action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith, portraying a fed up married couple who are surprised to learn they are assassins belonging to rival agencies, and that they have been tasked with killing each other. The action flick was infamous for establishing Pitt and Jolie’s personal relationship, with the stars’ chemistry being lauded; Roger Ebert commented that what makes the film work is that Pitt and Jolie have fun mutually on the screen, and they're able to find a pace that allows them to be modest and amused even during the most alarming developments.
In spite of receiving mixed reviews from critics, the assassin-themed movie was a knockout with moviegoers, earning almost over $480 million at the box office. In 2021, Amazon announced that a TV series reboot based on the original movie was at present being produced, with Donald Glover slated to star in the Prime Video show.

5. Sicario Denis 

Villeneuve’s gritty 2015 action thriller Sicario follows an unrealistic FBI agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a cruel and powerful Mexican drug cartel. Emily Blunt stars as Special agent Kate Macer, who teams up with CIA Covert Operative Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro), a past Mexican prosecutor turned assassin. The border drama’s name Sicario is actually the Spanish word for “hitman” itself, and its script was written by Taylor Sheridan as the first installment in his neo-western trilogy exploring offense on “the modern-day American frontier.”

Sicario was selected to battle for the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, earning acclaim for its fascinating screenplay, cinematography, direction, and the performances by Blunt and del Toro. Empire magazine announced the picture “a beautifully murky, hard-edged thriller. Quite merely, one of the best movies of the year.” A follow-up, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, debuted in 2018 and a third sequel is at present in the works.