Wonderful Movie

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Jay Killion had been the presidential bodyguard, but for the inauguration of the recently elected president, he is assigned to the first lady, Lara Royce. Lara, an arrogant feminist, initially hates the methodical and by the book Killion, and so she does all she can to avoid him and disregard his safety procedures. The situation becomes complicated when repeated attempts are made on Lara's life. Eventually Lara decides to trust Killion's instincts and precautionary methods, and the pair embark on a difficult and often perilous cross-country journey, with the assassins close on their heels.......Ah The Cannon group, the epitome of eighties production companies. Their movie are like cheese on toast, really good throwaway comfort, but too much can be very bad for you, so one every now and again is a must, especially when there go to guy Bronson is involved.This is one of his more poorer efforts though, not quite reaching Messenger Of Death risibility, but nowhere near as over the top as Kinjite, or Murphys Law, this film would have definitely benefited from being R-rated, and a little more action packed.So the film consists mostly of Jill Ireland making Bronsons life a misery (life imitating art?), by calling him names, running away from him every chance she has, and ignoring the fact that almost everybody who isn't wearing a suit wants to kill her.And then there's the rest of the film, the Cannon goodness, featuring Bronson on a machine gun wielding Bike,mourning into Danny Trejo when he jumps of and firing a rocket launcher.............a rocket launcher, into a barn.The guy here is 60+, and he's still running around like someone half his age. The set pieces are splendidly over the top, and you know you are watching terrific trash, when you see Bronson throw an empty machine in an hilarious way at a man in a wet suit.He two leads aside, the acting is woeful, the White House exterior looks like a chain restaurant, and it all ends with a man falling out of a window.Absolute rubbish, but by George, it's fun while it lasts.

Bronson plays Jay Killian, a secret service agent who has been transferred from guarding the newly elected President of the U.S. to now guarding the new first lady. Eventually, Bronson learns that the first lady is being targeted for assassination (hence the title), the film for the most part deals with Bronson keeping the first lady out of harms way. Not really an excessive actioner for Bronson considering previous efforts from his career, meaning that it's a little light on the violence factor. Jill Ireland plays the first lady, who has quite a mean streak to her in the film, her snobby attitude makes quite a pairing for her and Bronson's character. There are some comical moments here and there throughout the film, Bronson has more dialogue than usual which is nice, he adds a little rare touch of comic relief althroughout the film. I would recommend this movie to any Bronson fan, it's not Paul Kersey, but Jay Killian isn't too bad either.

I just saw this movie and the beginning started out pretty good and kind of funny between Ireland and Bronson. Just let you all know that I believe that Jill will go lethal with the shoe she had on if you mess with her so DON'T. But then at the middle of the movie, it had ups and downs. The first thing about it is that most of the action scenes go a little too fast and some of the non-action scenes go little fast too but other wise, the film is pretty good. Just to let you know that this is the last film that Charles and Jill are together and still do good being together in this film and I hope you you all enjoy the film.I give this a 7/10

In the twilight years of his career, Charles Bronson forged long-running partnerships with several directors, most notably J. Lee Thompson and Michael Winner. He did two films for one-time Bond director Peter Hunt too - the first being the decent 1981 actioner Death Hunt, the second being this indifferent political chase thriller. Assassination is pretty dull if truth be known, and come the end you'll find yourself longing for something with a bit more passion and pace, like The Wilby Conspiracy for instance (which, plotwise, this film resembles). Bronson sleepwalks through his role as bodyguard Jay Killian, whose assignment is to protect the American President's wife, Lara Royce Craig (Jill Ireland, real-life wife of Bronson). Killian believes that Mrs Craig has been targetted by assassins; she thinks he's an over-protective, paranoid pessimist. Turns out - surprise, surprise - that Killian was right all along and someone is indeed out to eradicate her. The pair of them go on the run, pursued by the assassins. Everyone knows that the wife of an American President is known as The First Lady. For some reason, in this film they have renamed her "One Mama"! Quite what the point of this is is anybody's guess, but it's indicative of the film's pointlessness as a whole. Most of the film's performances are lazy, and the script takes a heck of a long time to get to where it's going. If I had to label Assassination within a specific genre, I'd say it is supposed to be a "thriller". I'd say that with some reservations, however, as to say that it's a thriller it has precious few thrills.