Assassins 1995

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Although he lets Assassins run on too long, Mr. Donner gives it a dependably slick big-budget style. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: There's so much dead air floating around in this icy-cool thriller that the director, Richard Donner, seems to be trying for an art-house version of his Lethal Weapon series (The 400 Blows to Your Head?). Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: In addition to Stallone's inflexible facial expression, the film is saddled with a preposterous script and hideous dialogue. Plus, it weighs in at a too-long one-hundred thirty-two minutes. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This movie is filled with such preposterous impossibilities that Forrest Gump could have improved it with a quick rewrite. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas seem as if they didn't know quite what to do to make this implausible action drama a kick. Read more

Time Out: An unusually serious, almost sombre thriller from the versatile action producer Joel Silver in which Stallone's a jaded assassin haunted by the past but unable to face the future. Read more

Jonathan Taylor, Variety: A not-much-fun high-tech actioner. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Noisy, shallow and glibly violent. Read more