The film is about Robert Rath, who recently arrived at a funeral to kill a prominent gangster. It looks like Robert is trying to watch a rival pistol rented with shocking results. In a short while, Robert faces a greater challenge, especially when he wants to meet the few other contracts before retirement, but Miguel tries to stop everything that happens.
An unusually serious, almost sombre thriller from the versatile action producer Joel Silver in which Stallone's a jaded assassin haunted by the past but unable to face the future.
Although he lets Assassins run on too long, Mr. Donner gives it a dependably slick big-budget style.
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January 01, 2000
In addition to Stallone's inflexible facial expression, the film is saddled with a preposterous script and hideous dialogue. Plus, it weighs in at a too-long one-hundred thirty-two minutes.
There's so much dead air floating around in this icy-cool thriller that the director, Richard Donner, seems to be trying for an art-house version of his Lethal Weapon series (The 400 Blows to Your Head?).
