Unlike Michael Fassbender’s methodical and fastidious and utterly joyless hit man in “The Killer,” Pierce Brosnan’s fixer and hitman in “Fast Charlie” has a wry sense of humor as he goes about his bloody business and displays a real affinity for the pleasures of life. Charlie’s a gourmet cook who specializes in Italian food (he was stationed as a Marine in Italy) and he dreams of retiring someday soon to a fixer-upper in Tuscany.
Problem is, when we meet Charlie, he’s standing in the middle of a junkyard as a gunman commands him to take off his shirt and drop his pants. This looks like the end for Charlie. Or is it? You tell me.
