Assassination Tango
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Director: Robert Duvall
Starring: Kathy Baker, Ruben Blades, Robert Duvall, Frankie Gio, Luciana Pedraza
Synopsis: John J. (Robert Duvall) is a seasoned hitman sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela (Luciana Pedraza), a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual world of the tango. Spellbound by the rich and mysterious world Manuela has shown him, his idyll is shattered when the reality of why he's there comes crashing down around him.
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Assassination Tango Review
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Review: This happened to be one of the last films I perused at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002. I was pretty burnt out by movie over-dose (if such a thing is possible) but I would like to believe that I could tell a great film from a bad film and I left the theatre thinking that Assassination Tango has both of those represented in it.
Robert Duvall is a great actor, there is no denying that. He's also no slouch in the producer/director realm but like everyone, he can be blindside and I think he was with this script. He brought his passion of the Tango to the film screen while trying to wrap an assassin story around the dance storyline. This, proves to be more distracting than anything else. As we get caught up in the world of the assassin we want plotting, and treachery and action, and at points, we get this, in spades.
It will come to a screeching halt for half the film though as we turn to the romantic, seductive side of the Tango. What kind of amuses me, and this is a odd little point on my behalf...he cast his current girlfriend, the very charming and seductive Luciana Pedraza as his love-interest and tango partner in the film, but then turned around and accused the Canadians of having no talented actors to hold their own with him on screen. Just seemed a touch hypocritical, that's all.
I know the Tango is supposed to be the most seductive, fascinating dance in the world, but I do find that when an actor takes over a director's chair and brings one of their passions to the screen it is invariably obsessing on one aspect and not another...truthfully, I enjoyed the assassin portion of the storyline compared to the tango one. I am sure others will prefer the slow, more foreign feeling aspects of the dance sequences, but I wasn't one of them.
As for the assassination story-line, it also never really sparks to life either. It is more of the same in this Soprano's oriented world. A man with a nasty job, trying to live a normal life. Nothing in this film makes me scream in frustration of missed opportunities, nor does it really break any new ground. It runs right down the middle...good and bad, with an end result of 2.5 out of 5.
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