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So, we are supposed to like him as much as do his new friends, Eduardo (Luis Guzman) and Elaine (Lesley Ann Warren), both of whom looked after Wilson's grown daughter Jenny prior to her death in a suspicious car accident.
The target is Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), who 'dated' Jenny prior to her untimely demise. Valentine is a once-successful music producer who has resorted to laundering drug money to support his lavish lifestyle, which includes striking young brunette Adhara (Amelia Heinle). Clearly, the director/producers know you can never have too many good looking young women in a movie.
How I felt about it. I am suspicious of this movie, in numerous ways. Allow me to elaborate.
Protecting Valentine is Avery (Barry Newman), a resourceful 60ish man devoted to his assignment. He hires a hitman (Nicky Katt) to take out Wilson.
My first objection is to the early scene where Wilson shoots some half dozen men. Their killing is senseless except out of revenge. It is also wrong, since they could have killed him earlier, but did not, despite his physical assault on one of them. And you'd think they at least would have taken his handgun before walking away.
I am also suspicious of Wilson's fast friendship with Luis Guzman and Lesley Ann Warren. He barely knows them, and his mere presence with them is dangerous. They would do best to avoid him.
It is also unclear why the black gang would rescue Wilson, loosely interrogate him, then let him free without further instruction or assistance. If they wanted to interview Wilson, they would have kidnapped him earlier. If they wanted to stop the hit on Wilson, then the hitman himself should have been taken out. Since he's certain to try again.
I also doubt that Stacy the Hitman would have double crossed his employer on the hunch that there may be a bag of drugs or money somewhere nearby to simply steal.
It is dubious that Wilson would have walked away from Valentine without as much as beating him up after Valentine reveals to him that he killed his daughter by repeatedly knocking her head against the wall. Rather too understanding of him.
I also doubt that a nearly elderly man would succeed in pushing an alert bodyguard off a roof to his death. It is also mettlesome to me that a man doing his job (the bodyguard) is the bad guy, while a lifetime criminal and mass murderer out for revenge (Wilson) is the hero. And the death of the bodyguard is clearly intended to be humorous.
It also is somewhat annoying when dialogue between characters doesn't match the images. I'm not talking about the (many) flashbacks, but when characters involved in the dialogue aren't moving their mouths, yet are talking. Admittedly, ventriloquism is a director's artistic license. But it can also be an affectation.
That said, Lesley Ann Warren has to be the sexiest 53-year-old in Hollywood, and the story and characters are engrossing. One actually feels sorry for Peter Fonda, despite his meddling in drugs to maintain his lifestyle.