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Assassins is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner. The screenplay was written by The Wachowskis and Brian Helgeland. The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, and Julianne Moore. The Wachowskis stated that their script was completely rewritten by Helgeland and that they tried to remove their names from the film but failed.[5][6]
Assassin Robert Rath plans to retire, haunted by the memory of murdering his mentor Nicolai several years ago. While Rath is on an assignment, his target is eliminated by Miguel Bain, another assassin. Bain greatly admires Rath but also wants to kill him to establish himself as the world's greatest hitman.
As Rath tries to figure out who sent Bain, his contractor offers him a lucrative job that could allow him to retire: kill a notorious computer hacker named Electra along with four Dutch buyers of a computer disk she possesses, then retrieve the disk. Electra has set up CCTV cameras and an elaborate mechanism for remotely moving items between rooms in the building where she is based.
At the designated location for the buy, Bain locates and eliminates the four Dutchmen, who turn out to be Interpol agents. Realizing Bain is after the same target as he is once again, Rath spares Electra, and the two escape with the disk. Scared by the whole situation, Electra runs away from Rath to her house. Both Bain and Rath separately track her down. During the ensuing fight, Bain kills Electra's neighbors and is about to kill her when Rath intervenes. Realizing Rath does not want to kill her, Electra decides to trust him.
Rath exchanges the disk for his fee, given to him in a briefcase. However, the briefcase contains a bomb planted by his contractor. After surviving the attempt on his life, Rath is told by Electra that she had swapped the disk, unsure if he would come back. Rath demands a greatly increased fee from his contractor for the genuine disk, with the money to be wired to a bank in Puerto Rico. The contractor agrees but also hires Bain to kill Rath.
Rath and Electra travel to the bank, where he concludes that Bain will use an adjacent abandoned hotel as a sniper post. Fifteen years earlier, Rath had shot Nicolai from the same building. Rath sets a trap, managing to both get the money and, with Electra's help, engage Bain in a gunfight. With Bain seemingly dead, Nicolai appears and reveals that he had worn a bulletproof vest when Rath shot him years earlier. Recognizing Nicolai's intention to kill them both, Rath and a surviving Bain both shoot him dead. Despite their brief alliance, Bain draws a gun on Rath, whose back is turned. Electra puts on her sunglasses, allowing Rath to use the reflection to aim a shot backwards through his own jacket, killing Bain.
The original spec script was written by The Wachowskis and sold for $1 million to producer Joel Silver around the same time he bought their script for The Matrix, also for $1 million. The script was similar to the final film, but with a more developed love story between Rath and Electra and a briefer ending without the character of Nicolai. Joel Silver offered Richard Donner $10 million to direct, but Donner insisted the script be rewritten to tone down the violence and make the central character more sympathetic. Donner brought in Brian Helgeland, who did a page-one rewrite and earned a co-screenwriter credit. The Wachowskis attempted to remove their name from the film but were refused by the Writers Guild of America.[7]
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[11] The film received mostly negative reviews from critics.[12][13][14][15] Film-review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 16% positive rating based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10.[16] The script was heavily criticized for being confusing and dull. Stallone's performance in the film earned him a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor (also for Judge Dredd), but the award went to Pauly Shore for Jury Duty.
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.
Richard Donner's "Assassins" may not rank among the director's best films, but the Sylvester Stallone, Julianne Moore, and Antonio Banderas-starring action film offers an entertaining, well-assembled ride. A story of competing guns-for-hire, one of whom is looking to wind down his career, Donner's film may not be overly memorable, but it is pulpy, twisty, and exciting.
the first half hour of this inexplicably long, 132 minute Richard Donner/Wachowskis party is basically Sly and Antonio fighting in a cab and the rest of the runtime is Sly hanging out with Julianne Moore (as a hacker in a shiny leather jacket) and her scene stealing cat; not throwing shade here, I kinda love how weird, dumb and bloated this is and the action scenes are actually solid, even if Moore feeding her cat via remote control dump truck is the best thing in it
Assassins (1995) is a movie in my DVD collection that I recently rewatched on HBOMAX. The storyline follows an assassin known for being the best at his craft in the world. An assassin who wants his spot at the top has decided to hunt down the top assassin and take him out...is it that simple or does the young, hungry assassin have additional motives?
Cool story, and excellent action superbly directed by Richard Donner. This film would be beyond awesome if Sylvester Stallone didn't seem bored beyond the imaginable and Antonio Banderas had remembered to take his ADHD medicine.
Exhibit A for why Antonio Banderas was cast in The Expendables 3 and, more importantly, the Wachowski's first screenwriting/story credit. It doesn't really feel completely like one of their movies, as the script was also co-written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Richard Donner. The end result is a fairly middle-of-the-road 90's action movie, although I felt it too protracted while also light on exposition for how long it ended up being (well over 2 hours). It touched on a lot of interesting ideas but never developed them that much, mostly relying on star power to drive the movie forward. Did have a standout climax, though.
Assassins is a 1995 American-French action film written by the Wachowski brothers and Brian Helgeland, directed by Richard Donner, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore.
The original spec screenplay was written by Larry and Andy Wachowski and sold for a million dollars to producer Joel Silver around the same time he bought their script for The Matrix, also for a million dollars. The movie was shot entirely in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett metropolitan area (the Puget Sound region) of Washington State except the ending scenes in which the movie is shot in Puerto Rico. It features a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) procession crossing the streets of San Juan.
Assassins is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by the late Richard Donner. The screenplay was written by The Wachowskis sisters and Brian Helgeland. The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, and Muse Watson.
Assassin Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness rival hired gun Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas) 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 target, Electra (Julianne Moore), and becomes a marked man himself.
Assassins is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner. The screenplay was by The Wachowskis and Brian Helgeland. The film stars Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas and costars Julianne Moore. The Wachowskis stated that their script was "totally rewritten" by Helgeland, and that they tried to remove their names from the film but failed.
Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants to retire, haunted by the memory of murdering his own mentor Nicolai years ago. He is on an assignment when someone else gets to the 'mark' (target) before he does. That intruder turns out to be Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), a fellow assassin and a competitive sociopath. Bain plans to kill Rath to become the number one assassin.
As Rath tries to figure out who sent Bain, the contractor offers him a lucrative job that could allow him to retire: kill a computer hacker named Electra (Julianne Moore) and the four Dutch buyers of a computer disk and retrieve the disk. Electra has set up CCTV cameras and an elaborate mechanism for remotely moving items between rooms in the building where she is based.
Bain gets there first and kills the four Dutch buyers, who turn out to be Interpol agents. Rath, meanwhile, spares Electra, and the two escape from Bain with the disk. Rath exchanges the disk for his fee, given to him in a briefcase, which actually contains a bomb placed by his own contractor in an attempt to kill him. Electra then tells him she had swapped the disk, not sure if Rath was coming back. Rath demands a greatly increased fee from his contractor, this time to be wired to a bank.
The contractor (who is also Bain's contractor) sends Bain a new mark: Rath. Rath and Electra travel to the bank, where Rath identifies the decrepit, abandoned hotel that Bain will use as a sniper post and plans a trap.
After Bain's apparent death, Nicolai appears, revealing that he had had a bulletproof vest on when Rath had shot him years ago. Knowing that Nicolai would kill him too, Bain revives and joins Rath in shooting him dead. Bain still plans to kill Rath and become number one. Electra puts on her sunglasses, allowing Rath to see Bain; Rath shoots through his own jacket to kill him.
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