Never has the one film made so many past and future Oscar nominees and winners look so stupid. Even the brilliant James Woods, who fights hard but even he can't save this junk. A note to Sylvester Stallone: Why is it that you have to tediously play the same role in every film, even when it doesn't fit? He's always the decent 'good' man who is wronged by everyone else and who always does the right thing. WAKE UP! Your character in this film was a government assassin. AN EVIL, EVIL man who blew people up for money. So, having him suddenly discover a conscience because a young girl is in the car they're about to zap is especially puke-worthy. It's not like he didn't know what he's been doing all these years. This problem is all the more so in that crap-fest Assassins, where he also killed people for money. So, in this film and that one especially, why didn't you play it as such and drop all the really sickening moralising O.K?
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