Review of Assassins... (1992) by Christopher S — 02 Sep 2011

Written by the Wachowski Brothers and Brian Helgeland, and directed by Richard Donner. This is a good action thriller with some good action sequences, even if alot of it is a by numbers film, but it has a good pairing, and some good moments of suspense.

Donner is always a reliable director, especially with action. This has professional assassin Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) who does paid hits for an unknown boss, but Rath is wanting to get out doing hit jobs and retire.

However, he's out ready to do one hit, and he's beaten into doing it by Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), who turns out to be more of a psychopath. However, Rath sends Bain packing, and goes on to his next hit.

Involving knocking off 4 Dutch businessmen and computer hacker Electra (Julianne Moore). However, Bain appears again, but Rath seeks to protect Electra, thinking he could use her as bait to get Bain. This takes them from Seattle to Mexico, where Rath's money is being held, but they see a vantage point where Bain could get Rath killed, so they use it to their advantage.

It's a good film, not as bad as what critics made out at the time, this helped get Banderas his foot on the ladder in Hollywood, whereas Sly is his usual self. :P If only the Wachowski's could do more scripts like this.

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