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Assassinaut
USA 2019
produced by Michele Lombardi, Bedhan Ball, Clayton Koski, Suman Ball (executive) for Ultra Fuchsia
directed by Drew Bolduc
starring Shannon Hutchinson, Jasmina Parent, Yael Haskal, Johnathan Newport, Vito Trigo, Irene Santiago, Dietrich Teschner, Lilly Nelson, Mark Ashworth, William E. Ford, Brian K. Landis, Alan Boell, Jeffrey Alan Solomon, Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Jack Rouse, Conrad Cotterman, Michael Merchant, Josh Potter, Joseph Yates, Rebecca Sylvain, Candace Brooks, Catherine Robinson, Pedro Ferreira, Robert McLeroy, Alex Jones, Richard Spencer, Criss Nichols, Quinten Marsh, Michel Monty
written by Drew Bolduc, music by Darius Holbert, Joe Ferris
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The future: Earth has been laid to waste in an intergalactic war but is
in the course of rebuilding. And to give humans hope, four teens - Sarah
(Shannon Hutchinson), Charlie (Jasmina Parent), Tom (Jonathan Newport) and
Brooke (Yael Haskal) - up to the president's (Irene Santiago) high
security space station. It's really a publicity stunt, mostly, but that's
something that's also known by the enemy, so an assassin has secretly
sneaked onto the station and shoots the president - non-lethally, and he's
quickly shot and killed by security ... but he's carrying a bomb that's to
go off in mere minutes, by no means time enough to evacuate the station,
but somehow our teens, the president, and the teens' carer the Commander
(Vito Trigo) make it onto escape pods and escape ... to a strange and
dangerous earth-like planet. And somehow our teens and the Colonel get
separated from the president, so now they have to make it back to her -
who's still injured of course - to try and arrange for a rescue. Now that
expedition is perilous enough in itself as our teens are hardly equipped
for such a mission and basically lack the necessary experience, and the
Colonel ... well, he's a tough talker, but basically holding onto his gun
is his sole survival skill. Things take a turn for the worse though when the
Colonel is entered by some alien worm that slowly takes over his mind and
forces him to do its bidding - and its bidding it kill the kids. Now sure,
the kids outnumber him, but he's not one to be easily destroyed, and he
still has his gun ... A blend of science fiction, monster movie
and survival horror, Assassinaut is basically good fun that pretty
much has something for all genre fans, be it some really cool practical
effects, tension, suspense and jump scare in all the right places, a brisk
script and tight directorial effort, or just the 1980s vibe permeating the
film. And add to that a solid cast, and you've got yourself a winner,
basically.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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