Moviecut—Assassin

Assassin

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.

Man this had so many actors that I was familiar with that I thought this would a decent movie, well not so much. It is pretty trite and the plot line is easy enough to figure out. A retired agent (Conrad) is lured out of retirement to pursue, wait for it, a robot assassin. This robot is targeting a list of assassination targets since his maker has died. Karen Austen plays Mary Casallas as the female lead and of course she ends up becoming Conrad's love interest down the line, she is an agent who worked with the robot designer when he was designing and building the robot. They finally find the journals the scientist has left behind in a hidden storage unit. Using the information obtained from the journals and Mary's insights They eventually trap the robot in a sealed room where he self destructs.

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

A lame TV movie version of Terminator - sorta. We have a robot that looks human that goes around killing people he's programmed to kill. And it's a very boring film. Mainly a bunch of talk with some action scenes thrown in for some so called excitement. I have no clue as to the type of film they used to film this movie with but it looks dark and dirty, just dingy looking. A drab film quality to go with a drab story - I guess it works well together. This is not a film that Terminator fans should seek out - it's not nearly as exciting nor is it a quality film like Terminator. Instead it's just a lame, boring made for TV movie. If you miss this one, you aren't missing anything at all but some ugly 1980s hairstyles and clothing. 1/10

An ex-CIA operative is convinced by his old boss to return to action one last time to help track down a rogue agent who is going around killing people connected with the Agency. The only trouble is that the said agent is seemingly a lethally designed cyborg. This is a mid-80's TV movie, so it's probably fair to say that expectations should be lowered accordingly. Seeing as it was released in 1986, it's only fair to surmise that it derives much of its influence from the recent smash hit film The Terminator. Obviously, it's a very poor man's Terminator though. But its combination of sci-fi with paranoid political intrigue was not such a bad concoction to be fair. It's delivered with just enough effort to ensure it's watchable. But it's best to accept in advance that the thrills on offer in this one are of the bargain basement variety.

Ex-government agent, Henry Stanton (Robert Conrad) is brought out of retirement to track down a rogue agent named Golem (Richard Young). Golem is on a murderous rampage, killing with his bare hands and collecting secret data. Stanton soon discovers that he's not up against a mere man. Sort of a made-for-TV version of THE TERMINATOR, Conrad is really good in his intrepid role. Young's Golem is fantastic in all of his / its bulletproof, fireproof, virtually-unstoppable glory! Highly entertaining...