This is a surprisingly brilliant contemporary noir film from 2008 (that I KNOW that you haven’t seen). Tom Sizemore plays a retired hit man, a professional loner now living what would be a comfortable loner life (except for his chronic insomnia). He is offered a very large sum to take out a librarian (Sasha Alexander), but he is attracted to her and wonders why? And, as in any noir film, is she the innocent that she seems? Sizemore’s performance and a smart screenplay by Peter Biegen and Max Alan Collins carry this film, and Alexander is good, too.
Other recent DVD picks have been Road to Nowhere, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, Poetry, Queen to Play and Kill the Irishman.