Assassins

1995 132 min ★ 6.5 Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.

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Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Robert Rath

Antonio Banderas

Miguel Bain

Julianne Moore

Electra

Anatoli Davydov

Nicolai Tashlinkov

Muse Watson

Ketcham

Steve Kahan

Alan Branch

Kelly Rowan

Jennifer, Electra's Neighbor

Reed Diamond

Bob

Kai Wulff

Remy

Kerry Skalsky

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Details

Director

Richard Donner

Screenplay

Lilly Wachowski

Tagline

"In the shadows of life. In the business of death. One man found a reason to live."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$50,000,000

Revenue

$30,303,072

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Silver Pictures, Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions

Reviews

J

John Chard

August 19, 2017

★ 5/10

Check Mate? Sly Stallone stars as an ageing assassin who gets embroiled in a cat and mouse game with a younger assassin who wants to be number one of the trade. Teaming up with a computer hacker, Stallone battles not only his pursuer but also an event from his past that troubles him so. With Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore in starry support, Richard Donner in the director's chair and the...

G

Gimly

September 7, 2018

★ 4/10

A not great movie, but one that it's hard to pinpoint exact ways in which it could easily have been improved. A Stallone/Banderas as cat and mouse assassins sounds promising, but in reality this technoir thriller is... Actually kind of boring. Seems like it needs a ground-up re-working to get a story up to the concept of that team, which sounds exhausting. _Final rating:★★ - Had some things tha...