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The Assignment
1997
· Movie
· 119 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Every rating
34–72
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 34, highest is AlloCiné on 72. Critics average 48, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A hitman is given his final assignment: to kill the man who trained him, a legendary CIA operative who has supposedly turned traitor. As he gets closer to his target, he uncovers a complex web of deception and begins to question everything he knows about his own identity and the true nature of the mission he's been given.
Details
- Director
- Christian Duguay
- Writers
- Dan Gordon, Sabi H. Shabtai
- Released
- 28 September 1997
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- R
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