Assignment
Hill's most entertaining and...accomplished film in some time. It's an instant cult item.
The Assignment
Legendary director Walter Hill (The Warriors) gives the revenge film a modern neo-noir twist with this electrifying thriller. Hitman Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) is given a lethal assignment, but after being double-crossed, he discovers he's not the man he thought he was: he's been surgically altered and now has the body of a woman. Seeking vengeance, Frank heads for a showdown with the person (Sigourney Weaver) who transformed him, a brilliant surgeon with a chilling agenda of her own.
Genre
Action,
Crime,
Thriller
Runtime
95
Language
English
Director
Walter Hill
Cast
Sigourney Weaver,
Michelle Rodriguez,
Tony Shalhoub
FEATURED REVIEW
Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine
Walter Hill's first feature film since 2012's Bullet to the Head is, like much of the finest pulp fiction, designed to shock. To wit: Did you hear the one about the rogue surgeon who turned the hitman into the hitwoman? What a hook! And what a lurid, tattered paperback it would make, though Hill ...
Played at
Santa Monica
Monica Film Center
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