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Plot details

Robert Rath (Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants nothing more than to get out of 'the business', haunted by the death of murdering his own protege years ago. A quiet, morose professional, he's on an assignment to kill someone, someone else gets to the 'mark' (the target) before him. That person is Miguel Bain (Banderas), a fellow assassin and a competitive psychopath. Rath then has the trouble of trying to figure out who sent Bain, while at the same time being offered a job that could financially allow him to retire - killing the customers of a computer hacker named Electra (Moore) and retrieving her alive along with a disk that contains sensitive information. The problem is that Bain is assigned to kill Electra as well. Bain kills the customers and tries to kill Electra, but Rath comes to the rescue. His pay for the job is given to him in a briefcase -- which turns out to actually contain a bomb -- his backer tried to kill him. When this attempt fails -- along with the fact that the disc he turned over was a fake -- the backer hires Bain to terminate him. Now having become a 'mark' himself, he must try and extract enough money out of his backer so he can disappear for good, while avoiding the bloodthirsty Bain. Sylvester Stallone in Rocky. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... José Antonio Domínguez Banderas (born August 10, 1960), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor and singer who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including Assassins, Interview with the Vampire, Mariachi Trilogy, Philadelphia and The Mask of Zorro. ... Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960) in Fayetteville, North Carolina is an American actress. ...

Trivia

• The original spec screenplay was written by Larry and Andy Wachowski and sold for a million dollars to producer Joel Silver around the same time he bought their script for The Matrix, also for a million dollars. The script was similar to the final product, but with a more developed love story between Rath and Electra and a briefer ending without the character of Nikolai. Joel Silver offered Richard Donner $10 million to direct, but Donner insisted the script was rewritten to tone down the violence and make the central character more sympathetic and brought in Brian Helgeland, who did a page-one rewrite and earned a co-screenwriter credit. The Wachowskis attempted to remove their name from the film but were refused by the Writers Guild of America [1]. Later, after watching Bound, Joel Silver apologized to the brothers over Assassins and offered them the chance to direct their script The Matrix.
• A few years after the release, Richard Donner admitted that if he had to make the film again, he would've stuck closer to the Wachowski's original script and swapped the main leads, so that Stallone would be the reckless killer and Banderas would star as the experienced pro.
• Electra's cat, Pearl, is a Maine Coon.
• Sean Connery, Michael Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all considered for the part of Robert Rath. Christian Slater and Tom Cruise were offered the part of Miguel Bain.
• Part of the film was shot in Puerto Rico. The movie featured several local actors, such as Axel Anderson and Juan Manuel Lebron playing bit parts.
• The Banco de Puerto Rico building featured in the movie is actually a historic casino which was previously featured in the film La Gran Fiesta.
• The movie features a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) procession crossing the streets of San Juan. This procession is mainly a Mexican tradition and is not celebrated in Puerto Rico.
• Birra is the slang term in Spanish for beer.
• Electra is portrayed as having a voyeuristic fetish, she set up cameras in her neighbor's apartment and watches their bedroom.
• This movie was shot entirely in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett metropolitan area (The Puget Sound Region) of Washington State except the ending scenes in which the movie is shot in Puerto Rico.

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Cast and roles include

• Sylvester Stallone .... Robert Rath
• Antonio Banderas .... Miguel Bain
• Julianne Moore .... Electra
• Anatoli Davydov .... Nicolai Tashlinkov

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External links

• Assassins at the Internet Movie Database
• Original screenplay by Andy and Larry Wachowski
• Screenplay revised by Brian Helgeland