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Assassination (1986)
Director: Peter Hunt
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Dispirited action movie with baggy-faced Bronson, as a federal agent assigned to protect the newly instated first lady (code name One Mama), grappling listlessly with a script that gives him lines like 'The yacht was definitely blown up premeditatively'. One Mama (Ireland) doesn't hold much truck with security ('I am not going to be coerced by your chauvinistic rules'), but is forced to eat her words when it becomes clear that someone is trying to kill her. The plot, with the two going into hiding together and the sexual tension between them brewing, shambles along as predictably as a dot-to-dot quiz.Author: EP
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Hunt
Producer: Pancho Kohner
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott, Jan Gan Boyd, Randy Brooks, Eric Stern full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 88 mins
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