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Assassins
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.
1995 · Directed by Richard Donner · 132 min · Action · Adventure · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
In the shadows of life. In the business of death. One man found a reason to live.
Plot
Assassin Robert Rath plans to retire, haunted by the memory of murdering his mentor Nicolai several years ago. While Rath is on an assignment to dispatch tycoon Alan Branch at the memorial service of his brother Samuel, the strategy backfires when Alan is eliminated by Miguel Bain, another assassin. Bain greatly admires Rath, but also intends to kill him and establishes himself as the world's greatest hitman. Bain is arrested, but manages to escape after killing two police officers.
As Rath tries to figure out who sent Bain, his contractor offers him a lucrative job that could allow him to decamp more quickly: kill a notorious computer hacker named Electra, along with four Dutch buyers of a computer disk she possesses, and then retrieve the disk. Electra has set up closed-circuit television cameras and an elaborate mechanism for remotely moving items between rooms in the building where she is based.
At the designated location for the purchase, Bain locates and kills the four Dutchmen, who turn out to be Interpol agents. Realizing Bain is once again after the same target as he is, Rath spares Electra and the two make their getaway with the disk. Frightened by the entire situation, Electra runs away from Rath to her house. Both Bain and Rath track her down separately. 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.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Brian Helgeland
- Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
- Edited by: Lawrence Jordan, Richard Marks
- Music: Mark Mancina
- Production design: Thomas E. Sanders
- Produced by: Richard Donner, Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, Andrew Lazar
Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Robert Rath
- Antonio Banderas as Miguel Bain
- Julianne Moore as Electra
- Anatoli Davydov as Nicolai Tashlinkov
- Muse Watson as Ketcham
- Steve Kahan as Alan Branch
- Kelly Rowan as Jennifer, Electra's Neighbor
- Reed Diamond as Bob
- Kai Wulff as Remy
- Kerry Skalsky as Buyer with Remy
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish, Dutch
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Silver Pictures, Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $30,303,072
- Themes: rescue, central intelligence agency (cia), hitman, cat, bank, mexican standoff, seattle, washington, mission of murder, hidden camera, rivalry
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