Get out the wine and crackers if you’re going to see the movie “The Big Hit,” because this movie is pure cheese. “The Big Hit” focuses on four hit men who work for Paris, the leader of an international crime cartel, played by Avery Brooks, who sends them on missions to kill their enemieson a daily basis. Although the plot has been done before – kidnap a millionaire’s daughter and hold her for ransom. Yeah, that’s original – it is entertaining and humorous in its own way.Mark Wahlberg (Mel), Lou Diamond Phillips (Cisco), Christina Applegate (Pam) and Antonio Sabato, Jr. (Vince) share the big screen in this TriStar Pictures release.Even though Wahlberg, Sabato, Phillips and Bokeem Woodbine (Crunch), go together from hit to hit, Wahlberg is always left doing the dirty work, while the others lag behind and discuss their bonuses and lady friends. Because Wahlberg plays a nice guy in this movie, his character is taken advantage of by his partners and the women in his life. For example, when Philips’ character schemes to get more money from a hit done on the side, he realizes he has made a big mistake because the woman he kidnapped turns out to be his boss’s goddaughter. When Cisco finds out how furious his boss is about the kidnaping and wants the people behind it killed, he of course blames it on his partner, Mel. Mel falls head-over-heels for the kidnaped girl while keeping her at his house.When Mel finally discovers, while entertaining his fiancee’s parents, that he has been pinned for the whole mess, the following kitchen scene is quite funny. Four hit men join the dinner scene as family argument is taking place and of course, it breaks into a shooting match between Mel, Cisco and his men. This is also what the rest of the movie is based on. Cisco chases Mel by orders given from his boss, Paris. The chasing scenes go all over town, off the roads, into video store and into the woods. “The Big Hit” has a knack for adding humor to not so funny situations. However, it does work quite nicely. For instance, Pam’s (Applegate) father, played by Elliot Gould, is an obvious alcoholic, but this is one of the funnier aspects of the movie. Especially, when Gould tosses his cookies all over Phillips after heavily drinking during a shoot-out scene. Although “The Big Hit” is not going to be an Oscar contender, Phillips’ and Wahlberg’s acting should be commended. Phillips definitely holds his own as the bad guy, and Wahlberg was successful at making the audience love him for being the heroic, nice guy. However, the acting abilities of Applegate and Sabato should have been used more. Considering the presence that both of them have had in past films and TV shows, they didn’t register in this movie. This movie should be a crowd-pleaser for both sexes: Hot guys and bare bunsfor the women and big guns and chase scenes for the men. The estrogen and testosterone will definitely be flowing after this movie is through.If you can get past the corny lines and the unrealistic stunts, the movie’s cheesiness doesn’t taste too bad.