Review – Assassins

This picture is directed by Richard Donner and stars onetime-action-movie-king Sylvester Stallone. So I’m not quite sure why it had to turn out so deadly dull. At least part of the problem is Stallone’s usual lack of affection for dialogue. Normally that’s not a big problem in a movie about manly men who kill people for a living. But at least a little human element would have been a nice addition to this story. Sly plays an aging hit man looking for one final job to round out his career. Enter a young, obnoxious rival played by a young, obnoxious Antonio Banderas. A few twists and turns later, and our hero is trying to save a computer hacker (Julianne Moore) from just about everyone else in the movie. The only thing that kept my attention at all was a near constant worry that something bad was going to happen to the cat that Moore’s character insisted on dragging with her everywhere she went. And the only success the picture managed to achieve is that the poor creature actually made it all the way to the end. See if desperate