The Tufane Huffa6afoo • Apri( 18, 1997 • Arcade 11 'Grosse Pointe Blank' kills audiences with dark humor

Andres Martinez Staff Writer

People say that soundtracks are always better than the movie to which they belong. In the case of "Grosse Point Blank", that distinction cannot readily be made. This film establishes the perfect balance, giving the audience both a great movie and an excellent soundtrack. When Quentin Tarantino released "Pulp Fiction", a new genre of cinema was born-the violence I dark humor I more violence genre. Along came movies with a touch of comedy and a lot of action. "Grosse Point Blank" has the perfect combination of romantic comedy and realistic violence. John Cusack. plays the main character, Martin Blank, a young man who abruptly leaves his hometown on his senior prom night to join the army. Later, he becomes a member of the secret service, and then he moves on to becoming a COURTESY OF HOLLYWOOD PICTURES COMPANY professional hitman. At the beginning of the film, John Cusack makes a comeback as a hit man in "Grosse Point Blank." the audience is treated to the espionage, mystery and thrills with every move he makes. The Alan Arkin, Dan Akroyd, Joan with the great directing job of little romance, and Cusack they would get from a typical comic worth of the film is Cusack and Jeremy Piven. George Armitage, makes the creates a movie people are going James Bond movie. Cusack enhanced by the performances Altogether, the film has an film an excellent, feel-good, to enjoy and talk about later. constantly offers comic relief of excellent comedians such as excellent cast, which, combined thrilling and fun film. The music in "Grosse Pointe Some people might Blank" is marvelous. It gets question the use of progressively better. The coolest hard-core violence in eighties hits, a little music for this film. A couple of dancing and a touch of Latin scenes in the movie are rhythm comprise the soundtrack. quite intense (such as Songs like "Blister in the Sun", the fighting scene in "I Can See Clearly Now", and the high school "El Matador" are definitely the reunion), but these high points of this must-have scenes enhances the soundtrack. reality and theme of It has been a little while since the story. The fact is audiences have seen John that in order to relate to Cusack. Apparently, they never the story of a hitman, realized he was so talented! His the world in which he comeback will prove to be the lives must be beginning of a series of John recreated. The Cusack appearances in several screenplay, written in pictures to come. Cusack's next part by John Cusack, picture will be "Con Air" with defies the barrier that Nicholas Cage and John separates violence and Malkovich. Look him up comedy. The violence because if it's anything like content is so plausible "Grosse Pointe Blank", it will and realistic that it surely be something you won't blends with the want to miss. COURTESY OF HOLLYWOOD PICTURES COMPANY everyday comedy of Debi (Minnie Driver) is reunited with her high school boyfriend, Martin (John Cusack), ten years after he stood life. Spice it up with a her up on prom night.