Assassination movies

[adam]

Man Bites Dog is hilarious. Love that movie.

[BeautifulBurnout]

The Day of The Jackal without a doubt. The original of course, not the remake.

Also a french film called Le Professionel is awesome, with Jean-Paul Belmondo. If it is available dubbed or with sub-titles, watch it!

Nikita is great. Again, this is based on a french film called La Femme Nikita which tends to be better than the remake. Not kitch at all. Nothing like the TV series either.

Leon is t3h sh1tz! Jean Reno...mmmm... one of his best roles.

[Deckard]

Luke - The Professional was the US title of Léon if I'm not mistaken.

I thought Nikita (the original French movie based on La Femme Nikita, the TV series) was first class - and the Hollywood remake, The Assassin, was also reasonably good, certainly better than we could have hoped. Saw them both on the same day.

A couple of Costners - JFK, and The Untouchables (which I suppose is an assassination movie of sorts)

Oh, and I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but another assassination movie I quite enjoyed was that Geena Davis/Samuel Jackson movie from the 90's, The Long Kiss Goodnight. (I'll get me coat now shall I?)

[Deckard]

OK, i know you were preferably looking for more realistic ones, but I just remembered another crazyass one... Two Days in the Valley. James Spader plays the assassin. I just love that movie. Similar in tone to Grosse Pointe Blank.

[ffolkes]

Originally Posted by b.miller

-The Dead Zone gets a bad rap i think. Too many people laugh AT Walken and don't realize that it's actually a good Cronenberg movie.

why would anyone laugh at walken in dead zone? he's brilliant in that role, oscar nod worthy imo.
walken gave johnny's character a really tragic sense of loneliness instead of just hamming it up in some comic book style performance (which one might expect due to his paranormal "power"... or curse, morelike)

a great movie btw

[the mongoose]

Memento
Elephant (could've been a ten minute movie though)
the Long Kiss Goodnight
the Manchurian Candidate
JFK
the Passion of the Christ
Die Hard (any of them is pretty good)
Leon