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  • 2017
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2017
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Hitman Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) is given a lethal assignment, but after being double-crossed, he discovers he’s not the man he thought he was—he’s been surgically altered and now has the body of a woman. Seeking vengeance, Frank heads for a showdown with the person (Sigourney Weaver) who transformed him, a brilliant surgeon wit...

Directed By: Walter Hill

Written By: Denis Hamill, Walter Hill

  • 2017
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2017
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 35 m

The Assignment

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Hitman Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) is given a lethal assignment, but after being double-crossed, he discovers he’s not the man he thought he was—he’s been surgically altered and now has the body of a woman. Seeking vengeance, Frank heads for a showdown with the person (Sigourney Weaver) who transformed him, a brilliant surgeon wit...

Directed By: Walter Hill

Written By: Denis Hamill, Walter Hill

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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30% Mixed
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80
Apr 6, 2017
The film is wallpapered with beatings, shootings and bloodshed, so its genuine sensitivity to trans issues is welcome and surprising.
By Chris Packham FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 12, 2016
(Re)Assignment is ultimately canny in genre-play and unique in its time, factors that don’t necessarily make it great, but, beyond old-man-auteurism apologia, still hold somewhat of a flame in the modern age.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW

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50
Apr 4, 2017
It has no clue what it’s going for.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 12, 2016
This is a film which doesn’t take itself very seriously, and it will work best with an audience which takes the same approach.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
20
Sep 12, 2016
Nobody — not even viewers willing to settle for good, unclean B-movie fun — is done any favors by something as crude as (re)Assignment, which gracelessly mashes together hardboiled crime-melodrama cliches and an unintentionally funny “Oh no! I’m a chick now!!” gender-change narrative hook.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
16
Sep 13, 2016
Once the giddy critical pile-on and hate-watching settles down, the (justified) moral outrage that (re)Assignment tries to thwart will end up being the regrettable and forgettable film’s only lasting legacy.
By Sarah Kurchak FULL REVIEW
0
Apr 3, 2017
The Assignment is reprehensible, yes, but it’s also dull and inept. Fans of Walter Hill should treat his latest effort like the kind of car crash from which it’s best to avert one’s eyes.
By Alonso Duralde FULL REVIEW
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Production Company SBS Films
Release Date Apr 7, 2017
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
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Tagline One job changed it all.
Website http://gaga.ne.jp/lady-guy/
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Awards

VDKUF Award - Verein Deutscher Kritiker Und Filmemacher
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination

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