Pluskylang Great Film overall

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

sandcrab277 I don't like sci-fi and i especially don't like the players in this blown up piece of garbage pretending to be a movie...every cia agent looks exactly like the typical criminals in other films and tv shows...where the heck is jack armstrong...oh, perhaps its james west, ie; robert conrad...if so he didn't pull it off...much like most of the work in his compendium...it dragged on and on and on until i finally quit watching and slept like a log

zardoz-13 Robert Conrad doesn't break a sweat "Assassin," a second-rate, contemporary, sci-fi thriller. Neither should you. Retired secret agent Henry Stanton (Robert Conrad) comes out of retirement to save the day on one last assignment. Stanton's old boss Calvin Lantz (Robert Webber) wants Stanton to track down an invincible robot murderer. The catch is that this cyborg killer looks like a flesh and blood human. Indeed, "Assassin" is a lowest common denominator revenge movie with a robot tracking down former agency operatives and killing them with extreme impersonality. Symbolically, writer & director Sandor Stern gives the villain the surname Golem. Historically, the Golem was a Jewish monster sent to protect its people but revolts again them. "Assassin" amounts to a poor man's "Terminator" with few surprises. The cyborg has to recharge itself occasionally and it hides from our heroes while they scour an entire motel to locate it. Meanwhile, Conrad looks like he has packed on the pounds. He doesn't shed his shirt. In his glory days, Conrad always removed his shirt. He doesn't perform any strenuous stunts. He and his leading lady Karen Austin flirt with each other while Conrad's former boss, Calvin (Robert Webber), worries about his own life. Richard Young is okay as Golem. He can imitate voices. He can leap out of windows as long as they are no higher than the sixth floor. Veteran heavy Jonathan Banks plays a suspicious good guy. "Assassin' is abysmal.

BA_Harrison This mid-80s made-for-TV sci-fi thriller takes its cues from The Terminator, with a human-like robot assassin, created by a top secret government agency, programmed to kill those on a hit list compiled by its deluded, deceased designer. Ex-agency operative Henry Stanton (Robert Conrad) reluctantly comes out of retirement to try and stop the renegade mechanical menace, aided by attractive robotics expert Mary Casallas (Karen Austin).Writer/director Sandor Stern is no James Cameron, but he still manages to deliver a fair bit of tension and some hokey fun from the premise, with his murderous machine (effectively played by Richard Young) interfacing with an ATM to extract cash, taking a couple of high dives from several stories up, leaping over moving cars, opening up compartments in his body to modify himself, and even bedding a desperate bar floozy when his mission calls for it (he's anatomically correct and can go for hours on a full charge!).The plot does get unnecessarily convoluted and clichéd at times, with Henry haunted by his past, developing a relationship with Mary, and discovering that his superior has been hiding a terrible secret, but Stern just about keeps the pace going right up to the hilariously explosive ending.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

janoch SPOILER WARNING!I thought this movie was Programmed To Kill (it was named so over here) a movie which is generally acknowledged to be so horrifyingly bad it's good. I like bad movies, but this... It is very pointless but still quite professionally done :-( The only "highlights" were the nice 50's-style computers, the totally unemotional one-face acting by Robert Conrad and the ultra-cheesy ending. Everything else was simply pointless, boring and predictable.Watching this movie was mostly just a big waste of time. Not recommended to anyone.