Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

****SPOILERS*****Secret Service Agent Jay Killon, Charles Bronson, has his hands full protecting first lady Lara Royce Craig, Jill Ireland, in her wanting to be herself, or just one of the girls, and not being protected by him even when her life is in danger. At first Killon just about had it with Lara-Code Name Big Moma #1-until he realizes that those out to whack her are close members of her husband Preident Calvin Craig's, Charles Howerton, inner circle! Taking matters as well as the First Lady Lara Craig into his own hand Killon breaks protocol and checks out with her into a number of sleazy hotels and motels rooms, to avoid suspicion, until those who are out to kill her hired hit-men Pritchard Young, Billy Hayes, and his boss Eddie Bracken,Erik Stern, are either killed or apprehended!What makes Killon's job so difficult is that the two hired assassins are working for the Senate Majority leader the shifty eyed and sweaty looking Sen. Hector Bunsen, Michael Ansara, who's out to keep some very embarrassing and sensitive material about his boss Pres. Craig from becoming public! What that has to do is with an accident he was involved in that left him, the most powerful man on earth, totally impotent! A fact that would, by losing the womens vote, keep Craig from getting re-elected to a second term!****SPOILERS****The last of the 13 films that Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland were in together with Jill passing away from breast cancer three years later in 1990 at age 54. As you would expect from a Charles Bronson movie you got tons of explosion and action scenes with an exciting motor boat chase that ended with hit-man Eddie Bracken getting his face rearranged. That's when Killon who looked like he was about to get it pull out a surprise from between his legs and it wasn't what you or Bracken would think it is!

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.

Assassination stars action legend Charles Bronson as the first lady's bodyguard. Someone is out to kill her, and Bronson's ready to prevent that from happening. The story line to this film is directionless, and the acting is very dry. The first lady isn't a character that people will care enough about to care whether she lives or dies, so Assassination does nothing to get you cheering for either the good or bad guys. It simply keeps you waiting for the credits to roll.

I can't believe I sat through this garbage. Palm trees in D.C. (already mentioned), a dummy-as-dead-body bit so obviously artificial that I thought it was SUPPOSED to be a dummy ... until it left a bloodstain ... stilted dialogue, ridiculous plot. I think it's a shame that Jill Ireland's final film before her death was this stinker. Don't waste your time - I wish I hadn't. The only saving grace is that it was on cable, so I didn't waste my money on top of everything.