This crime comedy has a neat character-based hook: a washed-up hitman has to take his gang-lord’s mollycoddled son under his wing and make a killer out of him. Fleeing to Los Angeles after botching a job in London, Tommy (Josh Duhamel) is desperate to get back to his family – so mafioso Benson (Rick Hoffman) makes him an offer. If Tommy can get Benson’s son Julian (Jeremy Ray Taylor) to man up, he will smooth the waters with Freddy Darby (Aidan Gillen), his opposite number over the pond whose relative Tommy accidentally offed.
Tommy has his work cut out: the kid’s a LARPer. Tearing Julian away from mates with foam swords and his current position as level three druid, the assassin gives him a work experience berth on his next murder. Benson assigns them to dispatch legendary hitman Alistair (Neil Sandilands), whose recent religious epiphany means he may be about to spill the beans on past crimes.
