Assassin (2023)
4/10
Ice,ice baby.....
12 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
When her partner Sebastian dies, black-ops soldier Alexa takes his place in order to bring the person responsible for his death to justice. However, it seems that inhabiting different people's consciousness takes its toll on Alexa and the journey to expose the truth isn't paved quite as smoothly as Alexa expected...

So the plot of this film is effectively new technology allowing the living to infiltrate the consciousness of hosts whether they are dead/alive or merely in a coma. It's a mildly engaging concept, but it's not really enough to engage as a narrative.

So we see Alexa (god almighty how many times did my Alexa go off when her name was shouted on the screen) being coerced to go on a black ops mission to retrieve the spider from kingpin Adrian. This is where the crux of the plot is formulated, but it's seldom interesting and is a little bit sleep inducing truth be told.

The film becomes more complicated when the consciousness and the host become babes in arms which I could not make sense of. The senseless twists at the end made little sense and overall I found the film a tad disappointing despite showing some promise.

Oh yeah one final thing; how was that bath filled with ice managing to remain below zero? It was not obviously plugged in anywhere that would provide it with a feed that would keep it below zero, but more importantly what point did it provide in the story?.... Exactly... none...

Give it a swerve people. It's sad that Bruce ended his legacy in this manner. Watch his earlier films to see his real talent he was clearly ill at this phase of his career and should not be judged as such.

Bruce you were great, but this is not how you should be remembered.
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