'The Hit List' (2011) – William Kaufman.

Cole Hauser plays depressed working stiff Allen Campbell, an enormously beleaguered fellow in a rapidly descending life slump, his glacial relationship with his wife fractured to breaking point, passed over for promotion by a smug, younger colleague, and is dangerously in debt to a vicious hoodlum. On one fateful eve a disconsolate Allen drowns his sorrows in Jack, and meets the brusque, steely-eyed, epigrammatic Jonas, who coolly suggests that Allan drunkenly writes a top five Hit List of all those malign individuals who have wronged him so unjustly on a scrappy bar napkin. When Allen blearily awakens he discovers that his boss is dead, and his new 'best friend' Jonas plans tomb cement their burgeoning friendship by zealously working his bloody way through Allan's list! 

Solid director William Kaufman's existentially bleak, terrifically tense, psychologically tweaked action thriller not only provides exhilaratingly ballistic B-Movie entertainment, but allows its talented star Cuba Gooding Jr. plentiful opportunity to flex his fascinatingly menacing persona, as the ruthless, rapid-fire assassin Jonas stridently takes his rightful place among the cinematic pantheon of sinisterly charismatic psychos, ranking alongside Rutger Hauer's immortally insane Hitcher as one of the more memorably Machiavellian movie maniacs, giving his more than capable co-star Cole Hauser a truly stark ultimatum: either stop him, or Allan's blithely written Hit List shall become a grim reality! 'The Hit List' is a surprisingly tough, consistently engaging work of hard-hitting pulp fiction, and any script that references a classic Charles Bukowski quote can't be all bad! And it must also be said that Jonas going Full-Terminator at the film's incendiary climax is a wholly righteous sight, dude!

'It's not ALWAYS better the devil you know!'

  

“Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live". Charles Bukowski.