Hit Man on W9: an irresistible thriller with Glen Powell (review)

Philosophy teacher? Undercover cop? Hitman? A portrait of a man hesitating between several identities, Richard Linklater’s new film also playfully skips between genres.

Released in 2024 on Netflix (but Canal Plus in France), Hitman is broadcast for the first time unencrypted this Monday evening on W9. This thriller by Richard Linklater, skillfully mixing comedy and romance (with Glen Powell and Adriana Arjona in the main roles), won over critics, including First.

At the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Hitman was screened a few days later The Killerby David Fincher, of which he is a sort of laughing and demystifying B-side. Hired killers do not exist, they are only a cinema fantasy, director Richard Linklater takes great care to tell us in the intro to his film – iconic extracts from Gunslinger or The Mark of the Killer in support.