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Assassination (1987)

Action | 105 minutes
2,39 72 votes

Genre: Action

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Peter R. Hunt

Stars: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Stephen Elliott

IMDb score: 5,2 (4.150)

Releasedate: 9 January 1987

Assassination plot

"A presidential bodyguard is assigned to protect an objecting first lady, as repeated attempts are made on her life."

Jay Killion is the bodyguard of Lara Royce Craig, wife of the newly elected president. Because she hates Killion, she constantly tries to avoid him, but when an assassination attempt is planned against her, he must take responsibility and protect her.

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Lara Royce Craig

Charlotte Chong

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Tyler Loudermilk

Eddie Bracken (as Erik Stern)

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Zinema (crew films)

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Too young lady.

This standard Cannon is one from the well-known book of the Israeli cousins: Bronson who gets involved with a lady who is too young and his stunt double who appears in the picture just a little too extensively. Like a real Chuck Norris, the iron eater trots through terrorist land and flirts with his wife who is the literal First Lady. Not as violent as the Death Wishes, but still indicative of the producer duo's 80s.

Average.

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AniSter

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Totally unlikely story, but fun with good humor every now and then. If you consider that Ireland is Bronson's wife in real life, then this film and the dialogues between the two have a special meaning. Reasonable action and some tension every now and then make this film worth watching. Not a tour de force, but the beautiful images of the surroundings are sufficient for me.

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Filmkriebel

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Not much going on. And I don't mean that there is a lot of naked walking around in this film.

Bronson plays a bodyguard who has to protect the first lady, and soon there are attempts on her life. The fact that the first lady is an insufferable bitch contributes to the lightness and all kinds of farcical one-liners, and the road movie in the second part is still entertaining, but the criminals are nothing and the often nonsensical dialogues are shit, as are the bad action scenes of The A-Team level.

This was one of Ireland's last acting performances when she was already ill with breast cancer. Is her energetic, free-spirited character wishful thinking of the Cannon producers, who wanted something different for the US than those stiff old first ladies?

The fact that Bronson and his wife starred together in this film is about the only thing that makes it worth mentioning because otherwise it is very mediocre.

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