Bullet to the Head (2012) on Netflix
R20121h 32mActionCrimeThriller
Jimmy Bobo works as a hitman in New Orleans with his partner Louis Blanchard. After they kill a corrupt ex-cop, Louis is murdered, and Washington detective Taylor Kwon arrives to investigate.
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Plot summary
In New Orleans, the hit men James Bonomo, a.k.a. Jimmy Bobo, and Louis Blanchard execute the dirty cop Hank Greely in a hotel room. But they are betrayed and Louis is stabbed in a bar by the mercenary Keegan while waiting for the payment of the contract. Meanwhile the Washington D.C. police detective Taylor Kwon comes to New Orleans to investigate the murder of Greely, who had stolen evidences from the Police Department. Soon he is shot by two dirty detectives but Jimmy saves his life. Jimmy brings Taylor to the shop of his daughter Lisa and she removes the bullet from his shoulder and nurses him. Taylor and Jimmy form the most unlikely partnership to investigate the crimes and after contacting the intermediate Ronnie Earl that had hired Jimmy and Louis, they discover a network of corruption formed by the lawyer Marcus Baptiste and the entrepreneur Robert Nkomo Morel.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bullet to the Head (2012)
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- Thomas Jane was originally cast for the part that would eventually go to Sung Kang. The role was recast at the insistence of producer Joel Silver, who stated a need for a more ethnic actor to appeal to a wider audience.
- Wayne Kramer was originally attached to direct but left the project when his vision of the film turned out darker than Stallone wanted. Sylvester Stallone then called Walter Hill, who had just had a movie he had been trying to make for a year fall apart six weeks earlier.
- Walter Hill recalled telling Stallone the film would work if they did it as an homage to 1970s or 1980s action films, if he got a haircut, and if they played it not at some nuclear level and left a little room for humor.
