Steineded How sad is this?

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

pik923 I have a huge respect for Robert Duvall. We've had the luck of watching his career - from The God Father to The Great Zantini, to The Apostle. Here is is the star, film script author and director and it is obviously a work of great love. You can feel how much he appreciates the art of tango, not just tango but going to the root of tango, going to Argentina for the 'real thing' how wonderful. The film has a gentleness, even though it is a thriller, it has a rhythm, a sensuality because it centers around the beautiful movement of the tango. The dancing is gorgeous - and reminds me in part of TANGO by Carlos Saura and of course Sally Potter's THE TANGO LESSON. This film belongs to that category of art films based on the tango.Congratulations to Robert Duvall and to Executive Producer, Francis Ford Coppola for bringing this film to the screen. Enjoy

XweAponX Someone else states that the assassin as played by Robert Duval does not make you sympathize with the role, which is so wrong... I do not agree with that, as I was captivated by this man. From the start, it is clear that "John J. Anderson" is a cold blooded mafia assassin. That he performs his job with no moral issues or other qualms is quite clear, yet he has a complicated and satisfying personal life and a special relationship with his girl friend and her adolescent daughter- which he keeps very differentiated from his "job". He is also a very likable but cranky older man, much like many of other Duval roles in the past decade.What is also clear is that he is being set up from the start by the "client" his "boss" is dealing with, and the boss is even daring the client to make the job more difficult for Anderson - And so you are expecting a double cross, and we are not surprised when it happens, and of course, John J. Anderson, having done this job so efficiently and so well that he has lived to become an older man, smells it in the wind and knows just what to do.Not needing to go into the details of this it is clear that any lesser man with the same profession would have been sacrificed up to some Argentinian political agenda- Anderson has to extricate himself, and that he does. It does not matter that as the film viewer you expect him to do it... The way that he extricates himself is both amusing and interesting.Due to unexpected delays, Anderson has to spend more time in Argentina than he originally thought, missing his "Little Girl's" birthday, which upsets him more than the delay itself. But to take up time as he is waiting for the go, he has been intrigued by Tango and he gets to see Tango dancers in the country where the dance form originated. So, what makes this film ultimately pleasurable and interesting, is that Anderson starts to frequent dance halls where he eventually sees a dancer Manuela (Luciana Pedraza) and is instantly connected to her. And so he takes steps to meet her and begins an interesting relationship with her, not an affair, but a true friendship, and in this time he gets real Tango lessons and is brought to some clubs where the art form is being shown in full blossom. To see the various dancing by Professional Tango dancers in various places in the film-- Is just wonderful and a good side twist to the film, bringing your attention away from the fact that Anderson is quite probably trapped in Argentina and is being hunted. Maybe not the ideal film to represent "Tango" in itself, but this film is at least a curt nod to the art form, a genuine homage. The character Anderson, upon seeing his own inadequacies with his dancing, never postures or pretends that he knows more than he does, he meekly accepts Tango lessons from Manuela's sister and forms a bond with her whole family.And so as Anderson Tangos in his Mind with Luciana Pedraza, he also dances with his Argentinian Handlers, Police, and even Argentinian Government officials... All the way back to NYC. One of the better films I have seen lately, rates multiple viewings. I would say to any hard core Tango people, this film is not all about Tango, it simply includes Tango, so it is not meant to show us everything about that art form, just to give us a short look at how it is really done in Argentina.

Wayne Dear Robert Duvall made two mistakes in making Assassination Tango. First, he hired the wrong director. So watch this some evening on the IFC channel and imagine Woody Allen behind the script and the camera.Really, people, it has the classic Woody elements: an older, ratty-looking leading man; way younger hot women as romantic interests; and barely suppressed angst.Oh, yeah...the second mistake: Duvall gives up the story in the title. So after viewing this film, compare it to his work and make up your own tag. How about Invasion of the Tango Snatchers?One more observation: Manuela, the tango teacher, is played by Duvall's wife, Luciana Pedraza. Never direct your wife in a movie, or her ass might look big as it does in some tango shots.

d_patton As with Max Von Sidow's "Joubert" in "Three Days Of The Condor, Robert Duvall's John J. Anderson lives a life of opposites. He seeks meaning in a life where he takes other lives without meaning. He seeks passion where his work does not allow it. As Joubert is deeply committed to his grandchildren, Anderson is to his adopted families wherever he finds them and, if only temporarily, to the fabric of life that accompany them.The movie leaves unresolved issues; what becomes of Manuela, her son, her friends and the fantasy-life of Tango they live in, all of whom Anderson has quickly come to love to the extent he can. What becomes of Miguel and Orlando who recruited him. It is part of the ambiguity of Anderson's life, stepping on and off the stage that he must continually leave these and similar accounts open, yet he adds meaning to the lives of others and they his as he passes through....and as he takes lives.This is a movie in an older and more sophisticated style. What is left out is not omission but rather is left to the viewer to ponder. The movie is not satisfying and is not intended to be. It is, however, compelling and worth seeing.