I saw The Assignment last night.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5034474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Ok... I have a mixed bag about this one.
So picture this... Michelle Rodriguez plays the lead an a fairly decent cast also starring Tony Shalhoub, Signourney Weaver and Australia's own Anthony LaPaglia.
Michelle Rodriguez plays Frank Kitchen, yep. FRANK. A rugged, cold blooded, long haired, thick bearded assassin. This was a letdown for me because as a Michelle Rodriguez fan, I immediately knew it was her as soon as we saw Frank make his first appearance. Anyway... Frank has an Assignment in Vegas and takes out a strip club owner. Little does Frank know that he just took out the brother of a highly sophisticated and talented plastic surgeon, Dr. Rachel Jane, play by Sigourney Weaver. Rather than kill Frank, Dr. Rachel uses her talents as a plastic surgeon to give him a sex change and turn him into a woman. It is at this point we see the real Michelle Rodriguez come out. It be honest, it was quit weird seeing Frank Kitchen with a hairy chest, and a beard. The voice was also very obviously put on, so I was counting down to seeing Michelle Appear. It was also a little revealing when we see Frank/Michelle touch herself n various parts discovering her new found feminism.
Her reasoning for changing Frank's sex was for a few reasons...
- She didn't kill him because she believes everyone deserves a second chance
- She wanted him to become a woman as they are the more elegant sex
- She wanted him to suffer for what he did
- She wanted to put her talents into practice
So the Doctor hires some thugs to knock Frank out, one of those thugs being Anthony LaPaglia, and they go into business with Frank before betraying him and knocking him out, handing him on a silver platter to the Doctor.
The Doctor is then deemed mentally unwell, and throughout the movie is assessed by another Doctor played by Tony Shalhoub.
The rest of the movie has a lot of assassinations a Frank discovering himself as a woman.
Now this movie started of very poorly and looked like a poor man's Quinton Tarantino film, but it kept you hanging. The twists the come as the movie progresses are also nicely done - there is one very big twist towards the end.
Overall, an extra cheesy film that left me wanted more. I didn't want it to end when it did, truth be told.
7/10.
Michelle Rodrigues as Frank Kitchen.
