Assassin[s] details
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| Formats: | 18 DVD, LOVEFiLM Instant |
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| Starring: | Michel Serrault, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mehdi Benoufa, Robert Gendreu, Daniele Lebrun, Francois Levantal, Karim Belkhadra, Roland Marchisio, Felicite Wouassi, Nicolas Boukhrief, Donat Vidal-Revel, Philippe Neunreuther, Christophe Rossignon |
| Director: | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Genres: | Drama - Crime, General, World Cinema - Italian |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Title | Runtime | Certificate | |
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Assassin[s] |
2hrs 7 mins | 18 |
LOVEFiLM Instant Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 7 minutes |
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| Rental release: | To be confirmed |
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It is painful to say this, but....
By Rab from Scotland , 23 Apr 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
Even the late, great Michel Serrault cannot save this film. Michel plays the devil incarnate, training a young man in the gentle art of brutal, psychopathic murder. The director is so stupid that he thinks that the audience will be too dumb to realise that Michel is playing the devil and in one scene he actually has a tail popping out below Michel's coat as he strolls off after a particularly brutal murder scene. The crassness of this scene typifies the entire film. An utterly pointless film and a terrible waste of the brilliant Michel Serrault's talent. Instead of watching this truly abysmal movie, try and get the DVD for one of Michel's best films, Mortelle Randonnee - a very moving and mordantly funny thriller.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(3)It is painful to say this, but....
By Rab from Scotland , 23 Apr 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
Even the late, great Michel Serrault cannot save this film. Michel plays the devil incarnate, training a young man in the gentle art of brutal, psychopathic murder. The director is so stupid that he thinks that the audience will be too dumb to realise that Michel is playing the devil and in one scene he actually has a tail popping out below Michel's coat as he strolls off after a particularly brutal murder scene. The crassness of this scene typifies the entire film. An utterly pointless film and a terrible waste of the brilliant Michel Serrault's talent. Instead of watching this truly abysmal movie, try and get the DVD for one of Michel's best films, Mortelle Randonnee - a very moving and mordantly funny thriller.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Rubbish
By a customer from Kingston upon Thames , 08 Apr 2008Terrible film, utterly boring and made worse by a lousy DVD transfer from Optimum.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Slightly grim?
By Zaroff (53 reviews) from Hay on Wye , 30 Mar 2008This from the director of Crimson Rivers, the pleasant young chap who was in Amelie.. The slow, old man focusing on passing on his skill & craft (rather than mere trade) which happens to be assassination, can seem a little dour, grey. But its about grey, the constant attention/disaffection of tv in the background of most scenes shows the main crux of the film, which is the banality of existence, the drear of having a lack of momentuum.
There is a suitable twist, there is a very engaging use of varying depths of focus in the cinematography, there are even & well tempered dialogues. But nothing much has really been said, and when the twist occurs the direction of how passionless and desensitised these humans are or capable of being is made clear. Perhaps too clear. Some of the grisly attention to detail in death & murder is quite necessary, punchy among the slowness and sour city life, showing brutality sharply. Some of the attention to detail however, the accumulation of such when the characters are all basically empty can be overwhelmingly hard on the viewer looking for entertainment. But then, that is what has occured to the characters, and so you the viewer may likewise have been rendered an emptier shell readied for someone to provide you an outlet for your frustration. Bang.- Was this review helpful to you?
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