Assassins Run

Decent actors horribly miscast in Movie trying to be more than it ever can be.

Plot: Company owner (Christian Slater) is in danger of losing his business to jealaous competitors in Russia. His wife, a swan lake ballet dancer, must turn once again from a duckling to a swan to say alive.

Though the Movie has a cool title, potentially good and renowned actors and on the surface a descent plot it turns out to be really crappy. A would be late night B-Movie turns into art-house action bottom shelf dust collector. It tries too hard to be something it is not: the script is amateurish and feeble, and it is too obvious that the writer is trying to keep the Viewer interested by using amateur-like methods.

Cole Houser, Angus MacFadyen and Christian Slater deserves and can do better, I guess they too suffer from bad economy like us normal folks.

I give 3 out of 10, if your sleeping pills do not work...see this Movie.

Did I read that right? "Does what ever she can using her skills at ballet," I'm sorry, i have complete and utter respect for the training and discipline ballet dancers go through. But without any formal Martial Arts training ballet would be about as affected as putting out a fire with rubbing alcohol. No vote for I will not be seeing this one. You can set this one next to Gym-kata for worst skills to mix with kung-fu. And the shameless use of Christian Slater as a star to get people to see the movie is reprehensible. Has he fallen so low that he has to use whatever crap that comes along to get some airtime?? oh wait... Oh yeah, Hollow Man II...

So I'm late to reviewing this movie, I just saw it for the first time on cable TV. But felt like sharing. It seems like we all have the same opinion.

The movie itself was fairly polished. Pretty decent acting for the most part. The scenes all made sense and the plot was continuous. Some cool scenes like the bald guy assassination scenes were good. The main actress was attractive to watch.

So I can't say it was totally worthless or complete garbage. It had some merits. The quality was definitely good.

Sadly the plot is just so insanely bad, it makes it laughable. Up to a point I was enjoying it. Then when I realize a 90 pound ballerina is going to turn into Bruce Lee, I had to laugh. Seriously, when I saw the main guy die, I'm thinking "how does he get revenge? It can't be the 90 pound ballerina!!".

The fight scenes are bad. She faces 2 300 pound muscle-head brutes and manages to swing her tiny frame to beat them up? Errr, no. Then she does a ballet move, a jump in the air with legs spread and somehow kicks two brutes out. The video is so poor it doesn't even show contact, it's just her jumping in front of them and them falling.

I can't give it a 1 because it's not totally worthless. I mean if you want some giggles, it' s worth a watch.

I've seen a lot of bad films, heck I've seen a lot of bad Christian Slater films, but this could very well be his very worst

But he's not in it for that long of duration of the movie, neither are Cole Hauser or Angus McFayden

No this is primarily Sofya Skya's vehicle, both as the director (alongside someone else) and as the main star, and I think maybe she wasn't experience to handle both at the same time or something cause it didn't turn out very good (to put it mildly)

They tried to relaunch this movie under Assassins Run with a flashy poster with Cole Hauser and Christian Slater fatigued up armed to the teeth, but that does not represent this movie whatsoever neither of them even hold as much as a gun in this movie, so that's just them trying to sell this as a tough action movie when in reality it's really pretty darn boring

The best part of the movie is the credits where they play a nice little acoustic ballad, color my surprise when I read the song credits and that was a song sung by Sofya Skya as well!

I'm sitting here thinking should I give it a 1 or a 2 but there was nothing good about it (except for the song in the credits which doesn't count) so yeah I'm just gonna give it a 1

(2013) Assassin's Run CRIME THRILLER

Misleading poster, misleading genre that may have been result of budget cuts. You look at the poster, presuming the star Christian Slater and the other guy standing next to him are going after some bad guys, and then when you watch it, it is nothing more what one can see on the poster. Anyways, because I had seen so many movies before this, even after using the fast forward button on some scenes, I was still be able to determine what happened as the movie itself is full of double crosses and double dealings.

The set up has subliminal images of a woman tortured and so forth during the credits, and then that same women is now being questioned by a police officer, and she begins by telling him a story. It is during then we are then see a wife, Maya (Sofya Skya) performing on a stage while daughter, Nina look on while her husband, an American oil tycoon in Russia, Michael Mason (Christian Slater) is missing his wife's ballet performance while stuck in a traffic jam. While waiting he is then receives a threatening phone call about his oil fortune and he chooses to ignore it.