The Contract

This movie its ups and downs mostly due to a poorly written script that had some unrealistic scenes but there were also some intense action scenes. The actors did a good job considering what they had to work with and the cinematography along with the special effects were mostly well done.

This is among the five worst films I have ever seen. Billy Dee must be flat busted. Oh how the mighty have fallen. This mess is boring, poorly acted, poorly scripted, pointless and a waste of good film stock. I can't even think of any clever insults for it. It's the pits.

Johanna Black has an interesting character, an innocuous boyfriend in Matthew Olver who works in an art gallery and a father/figure mentor who is a contract killer and the film opens with the two at a day in the office. But one fine day she and mentor Laurent Imbault get set up during a job and they Imbault is killed and Black becomes the object of a hunt by US Senator Billy Dee Williams.

Seems as though back in the day Billy was in Black Ops himself and did a lot of this work and he's going around eliminating those who might remember that. So Black and Olver go on the run and Olver for such a mild mannered dude shows some surprising skills that Black never knew he had. Must be osmosis in bed.

Billy Dee Williams looks like he's having a ball as he gobbles away in this Thanksgiving special of a film. It's what you do when you know you're in a turkey.

What is the difference between good and bad filmmaking. I'm sure it is several things, but if there is anything I always notice in films clearly not made by our average professional is pausing between dialogs. The idea behind the film is not all that bad, and compared to what the actors had to work with they did OK. But the camera work or cutting is very bad indeed. There are so long pauses between the dialogs, that it seems that each actor said their sentence and then the other actor waited for a cue in order to say his part. The film is also full of strange statements about what the characters are about to do next. "I'm going to lie down now, as I am very tired" etc. Not to mention the big holes in the storytelling, with half of the story just not making any sense. Hardly worth watching, unless you like C-Movies, and not worth writing more about. 2/10

This film is bad & I mean awfully bad in every single aspect. The story of contract killers is old hat by now, This film must have been scripted by Western Union-------The next scene is telegraphed beforehand. The acting is below atrocious by all concerned especially by Billy Dee Williams....He either was on a controlled substance or in desperate financial straits to take this role of an Politician who is more corrupt than the assassins. Normally even in the worst films, there are good production values,nothing is even fair, not even the music & the sound is atrocious as well. Rating 1/2* 19 out of 100 points 1 on IMDb

JAY HARRIS------SIRBOSSMAN