Barrett Blade is a master killer with a single serious issue--he can't kill women--in the "Hitman", a very good action flick from Digital Playground and director Robby D. Standing up well against the test of time and the advancement of technology, this 2003 release focuses on Barrett Blade as a hitman with a heart (and cock, apparently) of gold. Indeed, his one fatal flaw is that he won't ice-out women, which--as one might imagine--leads him into serious trouble with his lowlife thug boss, Herschel Savage. This is no more evident than when Savage asks him to off his own wife (unbeknownst to Barrett, of course). What ensues is a steamy action film that mixes in just the right amounts of guns, jokes, romance, and fucking to keep the viewer entertained from sexy start to clever and cool finish.

Robby D. cut his teeth doing a series of gonzo videos called "The Watcher" for Vivid Raw (Vivid's gonzo label) in the late 1990s. Although the series was obviously copying John Leslie's "Voyeur" series, and was also derivative of John Stagliano, Ben Dover, Seymore Butts, and Tom Byron, I remember being very favorably impressed with Robby D.'s product. He wasn't original, but he was very good at the gonzo stuff he was doing, and clearly had tremendous talent. Robby D. subsequently went to film school, and further honed his craft, and now Digital Playground is allowing him to put out very high quality films. I have recently seen a couple of his very original sex comedies, "Sex in the Valley" and "The Hitman," both starring Barrett Blade. In this movie, Barrett plays a hitman who works for Herschel Savage. He has twin .45 calibre automatic pistols that he has named "Mary Kate" and "Ashley," but when it comes to women, he can't seem to pull the trigger. He gets seduced into having sex with his intended victims, and then . . .