| Assassins | | Cast : | Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas | | Director : | Richard Donner | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 06, 1995 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | June 10, 2005 | | Summary | about the movie assasins........ | Content
 | This story of this movie/film is about how Syvester Stallone kill the cold blooded mad assasins acted by Antonio Bandaras in the end for the serial gun/revolver kill in the earlier part of the movie/film. A good recommendation purchase for those whom are interested in this genre of film. This movie/film is 133mins long which contains lots of gun/revolver firing/some explosion scenes which will interest one that is interested in more actioned style movie/film.
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Enjoy.....
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| Rating | | | Date | January 16, 2005 | | Summary | Fun movie with a lot of flaws | Content
| This is a good action flick with a several big name stars, some who were not so big when it was filmed.
Sylvester Stallone does a good job as the "retiring" hit man, but his character is not much different from all of his previous movies. Antonio Banderas has the same problem.
If you enjoy picking apart movies, there is tons of material in this DVD to throw stones at. They use a wide variety of weapons and most of them do not actually perform as shown. In one scene, Julianne Moore "cocks" a Ruger Mark II with her thumb. This would be hard to do since it has an internal hammer.
There are also several spots where the director inserted "subliminal" advertising. In two scenes, a bus is shown with a big red "NO NRA" sign on it. In a bar scene in South America, a waitress is wearing a t-shirt with "PRO CHOICE" in large letters accross the front.
Overall it's a fun movie. I had to hit the stop button and go over many scenes in slow motion to figure out what they were doing or what they were carrying. I like movies that make me do that. Good Saturday night popcorn flick.
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| Rating | | | Date | December 04, 2004 | | Summary | Shooting Gallery | Content
| Assassins may have sounded like a good idea on paper. Coming from a reliable action director and a trio of upstart screenwriters--it could have been a very cool film. Instead though. things get messy, due to a former rising star in need of yet another career boost and a jittery second banana
Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone)is an aging professional assassin who was once at the top of his game--now looking to get out of that line of work. Someone has other ideas. Not only must he protect Electra (Julianne Moore), a lovely computer hacker, stalked by the baddies. But Rath also becomes prey for Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas) an up-and-coming protege, mirroring the hit-man's own ascension fifteen years earlier.
Having helmed the Lethal Weapon series of movies, Superman, The Goonies, and The Omen, Richard Donner knows a thing or two about how to stage excitng sequences and blow stuff up in fine fashion. And those scenes in the film do work out quite well. The script from future L.A. Confidential scribe Brian Helgeland, as well as Larry and Andy Wachowski, the team responsible for Bound and The Matrix concepts can seem a little worn at times...But the main problem I have here is Stallone and Banderas. At no time did I buy these two men were the best in their field. If you are supposed to be an assassin, you're supposed to be cool right? Not bouncing off the wall as Banderas is, psychotic or not overacting not required. Stallone's played the down and out hero before. He could do this caracter in his sleep--and probably did just that. Neither man could work up to Moore's level. I didn't care who surrvived the gunfights and that posed a serious issue. I had no one to root for.
The DVD's only extra comes in the form of static production notes. A few words from Donner could have helped out a bit ala an audio commentary. Viewers can watch the film in either the widescreen or full frame formats.
Assasins is watchable I suppose, I just wish Donner had chosen better folks to play the leads, things may have turned out better. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2004 | | Summary | Assassins - ANTONIO BANDERAS ROCKS! | Content
| Antonio Banderas was just amazing in this film. He is either an extremely great actor or this is his real-life character! Superbly played. The character performance played by the other actors was good, but not good enough to compare to Antonio's great play.
I saw this film last night and due to my great admiration I had a dream that there was a shoot out at my home, and I was armed with this silenced 9mm, just like the one Antonio and Sylvester use in the movie! I remember I kept loading these clips (that they also used in the movie) and shooting, but dreams as they are, the clips sometimes wouldn't work properly, and I would fire, and it would get jammed. I remember hitting a guy, but I had to keep going back to my room to get another clip as I was running low on bullets! What is this, a film review or a dream review!! Ah, who cares! There are hundreds of boring reviews out there; here is something a little different!
Anyway, back to the film.
As I really grew close to Antonio's character, I really wanted him to succeed! Of course thanks to the way movies are made these days (and all-days!), the "bad guy" has to lose.
What do I like about Antonio's character, Miguel Bain?
His way of speaking and his voice is amazing to boost his character.
He is a young man, aged in his early to late twenties, unlike his opponent, aged somewhere in his late 30's to early 40's, he actually calls him "kid" a number of times!
He is hardly a child when it comes to his job (an assassinator), he is extremely professional, and I don't think I can over emphasize this point! The young man wants to be the No.1 contract assassin, but to my view and I think to everyone else's who has seen the movie, he is already No.1. He is a more advanced young assassin than his opponent. The other assassin played by Sylvester Stallone never intimidated Miguel Bain. He always had his utmost confidence, and played the game to his best. He even admits he chose the wrong hero! I think they both knew that Bain was really No.1. Miguel wanted to make sure his opponent and his new mark is terminated, so he could instantly claim to No.1, even though his mark was planning on retiring anyway! Nonetheless, he wants him dead.
It's the two top assassin versus assassin, though Sylvester's character doesn't really want to kill him, Antonio's character gives him no choice.
Of course there is a lot more to this great store, but that's enough from me, see the film for yourself, or if you have already seen the movie, then why the hell are you reading these reviews! :)
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| Rating | | | Date | October 25, 2003 | | Summary | Stallone and Banderas bash head on | Content
| 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. |
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