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By Rain Jokinen (125) for SFist (94) on 06 Apr 2017

Hill has been mulling The Assignment's story since the 1970's, and that in itself may prove a cautionary tale: If it's taken you almost 50…

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By Austin Trunick (219) for Under the Radar (636) on 06 Apr 2017

In the hands of a better writer, perhaps the idea could have at least found something clever to say about the gender roles of action cinema…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 06 Apr 2017

The Assignment is an embarrassment all around, a murky, regrettable piece of gutter cinema. Next year's Razzie Awards race starts here…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 05 Apr 2017

[I]ts biggest sin isn't cultural, political, or anything of that nature. No, the biggest problem is that it's dull…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Spliced Personality (175) on 05 Apr 2017

It will never be confused with one of this filmmaker's finest, but if you can get on the movie's bonkers, pulpy wavelength it's kind of a hoot…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Apr 2017

[Not] a good movie in the conventional sense of the word, but it's a great piece of unbridled pulp fiction and a fabulous showcase for Weaver…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for WBAI Radio (118) on 05 Apr 2017

Unconventional, flamboyant, daring, provocative, and with Hill's playful when not pathologically crafted preference for outsiders…

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By Soren Anderson (264) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 04 Apr 2017

This is perhaps the angriest movie Hill - longtime specialist in tough-guy fare such as The Driver, Last Man Standing, Red Heat and Bullet…

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By Phil Brown (24) for Collider (1,032) on 04 Apr 2017

Hill simply went off the rails with this one and delivered something so wildly lurid and insane that it's a jaw-dropper of ill-conceived bad taste…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 04 Apr 2017

This is perhaps the angriest movie Hill - longtime specialist in tough-guy fare such as The Driver, Last Man Standing, Red Heat and Bullet…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 03 Apr 2017

The sad truth is it's too dull to be offensive…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 03 Apr 2017

What an incredible missed opportunity Walter Hill's The Assignment turns out to be…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Apr 2017

Calling it disappointing would be an understatement…

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By David G (2,424) on 29 Mar 2017

Couldn't make it past first 20 minutes…

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By Pierre R (22) on 12 Mar 2017

Skip it...one of those movies that makes you ask, how do all of these quality people get together and not realize that what they are making…

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By Jermaine D (2) on 09 Mar 2017

I personally liked the movie. It was a change from the normal predictive cliche of gun slinger revenge movie…

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By Ian C (1,796) on 09 Mar 2017

Walter Hill's revenge flick has a feel off Johnny Handsome off it. A serious weapon on Rodriguez. Weaver is excellent…

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By Andy D (548) on 08 Mar 2017

Horrible acting...predictable...cheesy...just lost 2 hours of my life…

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By Kate H (393) on 08 Mar 2017

I enjoyed the pulp factor. It had me riveted. Strong performances and that sort of trashy can't take my eyes off comic book suspense. I loved it…

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By Nathan Lee (205) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Mar 2017

The Assignment is not so naïve as to presume that moral and political considerations are irrelevant to its effect, but once you wrap your…

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