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Assassins (Widescreen/Full Screen)

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Sylvester Stallone is back again along with a new comic hero, Antonio Banderas. The best duo since Tango and Cash, yes! Assassin Stallone wants to retire with one last hit, but Assassin Banderas ruins the cash payment. Naive man. You don't mess with Stallone, he gets angry real fast. A woman who has valuable information and is a hacker, must be assassinated. But luckily for her, Stallone protects her from Banderas. An encounterment in a taxicab forced Stallone to drive like a madman and crash into other cars, gutsy! The stove trick was clever forcing Banderas to jump out of the window! In the final pay-off, Banderas waited in a tower for Stallone to come out of a bank, but Stallone took his time and made Banderas sweat. I was laughing with enthusiasm. This movie is too smooth.

This was a sweet movie. If there is any one out there looking for a good action movie to watch, this is the one. WATCH IT!

the two leads are great, especially Banderas with his chitchattering character Miguel who is hilariously deadly. best highlight would be when Banderas gets blown out a window when the gaslight in Julianne Moore's apartment ignites, it sends him flying out baby. though the downfall is length, especially in the end where it seems endless and yawning.

"Assassins", just one more in a seemingly endless (until "Cop Land") string of bad career moves by Sly Stallone. The "plot" <ahem> centers around Robert Rath (Stallone), a veteran hitman who is haunted by his violent past, and wants out of his profession. But he is being toyed with by a younger hitman named Miguel (Antonio Banderas), who wants to make a name for himself by taking Rath out. Let's get right down to it: Sylvester Stallone was the only reason to even think about watching this movie. He's always been good at playing characters that, haunted by past violent mistakes, yearn for second chances (like John Rambo in the original "First Blood"; Gabe Walker in "Cliffhanger"), and his turn as Robert Rath is no exception.

Richard Donner's direction was horrible, a mishmash of weak camera tricks and unnecessary quick cutting. Julianne Moore's performance in this movie is the total opposite of every good one she would give later in her career: in this, she makes for good eye candy, but not much talent or charisma on display for her thankless role as a mark caught between two hitmen. No indication of the incredibly talented actress she would become soon after "Assassins".

And Antonio Banderas. Antonio, Antonio, Antonio. I'd be surprised if any self-respecting vegetarian could watch Antonio Banderas act in this movie, because he makes for the biggest ham you ever saw. I couldn't understand half the character's lines without putting on the captions. Word of advice to Antonio Banderas: speaking in a growling half-whisper with a heavy accent does not equal acting. And did his character Miguel have enough gel in his hair?! Scrape some of that gunk off, and you could've solved the world energy crisis.

I saw it, I tolerated it, but you should use extreme caution when dealing with "Assassins". - *** out of 5

Stallone gets off with another action character (Robert Wrath). In this Movie he plays the character as an assasin who takes orders from an unknown person and the one thing he can't do is "hesitate to kill" What i really like about this movie is that it reminds people that there are some of those type exist in the world. Therefore, this movie is just showng you how dark and faroff there lives are.

How can you say too much bad about a Stallone and Banderas film with lots of action and guns. It could be a little tighter, and it could have a little less space between the scenes, but everybody looks so good and there are lots of guns. If you only like sappy love stories with no action and no guns, don't buy this film.

A Professional Hit-Man by the name of Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) finds himself haunted after a Hit goes wrong. Another Professional Hit-Man named Bain(Antonio Banderas) targets him as an unwanted rival but things get complicated, when Robert gets involved with an attractive Computer Hacker (Julianne Moore).

Directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapons Series) shows a stylish thriller but It`s also a slow moving thriller. It`s a huge Box Office disapointment back in 1995, despite a few good action scenes and a sense of humor. The film is Written by Andy & Larry Wachowski (The Matrix Trilogy) and Brian Helgeland (A Knight`s Tale). It`s worth a look. Grade:B.

When in a movie, the bad guy kills innocent people for no reason and feels no remorse, I'm hooked because I hate him. I really hated Banderas's Bain in this movie, which increased my enjoyment. Stelones Rath was cool too, and the two's interaction in the well done action scenes makes this DVD worth at least renting. Elektra is cool too in that you woudl want to be friends with her in real life. That said, this movie has some inexusable weaknesses to it. Donner has tried to attach some significance to two symbols: Chess and the "15 years" thing about Rath killing his partner 15 years ago. These two symbols go absolutly nowhere, and everytime one character mentioned them, i had to laugh out loud. They didn't make sense. Also, why is Rath retiring? who cares that he is? I don't feel that his retiring has anything to do with the movie, altough it could have been done very well. The ending sucked too, when the Russian guy is still alive. i woudl really like somebody to explain that to me. So in conclussion, this movie is worth seeing for the action sequences, and can probably be made into a drinking game: Everytime one of the character says "15 years, you take a drink. Oh yeah, as somebody said before, i wish that Hollywood would teach its actors to fire a gun!

Poor picture quality, every other second the picture either goes blurry or seems to glitch and show lines. Quite obvious on a computer monitor, less so on a tv. Annoying. Decent flick, though not half as dark as it tries to be, and burdened with typical Hollywood elements that detract from an otherwise viable main story. It does have its moments, primarily thanks to Banderas (IMHO), but is still doomed to cliche and mediocrity for its "action movie" formula. End result: where this movie could have been much darker, it is merely campy (like a typical action movie). Could have very easily become the thriller it should have been, if it had been given a director with some vision. It's clear that Donner really didn't know where he wanted to go (except to the bank) with this movie. LONG STORY SHORT: decent flick, bad dvd.

This was a really good Sly action movie. The idea of two competing assassins was cool and seeing Stallone take on such a different type of character was interesting. Antonio Banderas was a perfect choice for an assassin, he did a very good job playing one. I agree with many other people though who say it could have been done much better with perhaps a different director. The movie did kind of get long and pretty soon you're just like...go faster! But overall a great movie.