ASSASSINS (1995) ** ½

Sylvester Stallone stars as Robert Rath, the best hitman in the world.  Antonio Banderas is the upstart new assassin on the block, bent on taking out Sly to make a name for himself.  Director Richard (Lethal Weapon) Donner offers up a few tense scenes, like when Sly and Antonio match wits in a bank, but like most of Stallone’s late 90’s action movies (The Specialist, Daylight, etc.)  where a more “mature” Sly actually “acted”, there’s too much talk and not enough action.  Also starring Julianne Moore.  Written by the Wachowski (The Matrix series) Brothers.