Best movie of this year hands down!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Don't Believe the Hype

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

TOMBOY is posited as some kind of gender-swap action thriller but in reality it's merely an indie drama with great expectations which are dashed early on. Michelle Rodriguez plays an assassin, starting out as a guy, only to wake up to find that she's become a woman thanks to some unorthodox gender reassignment work. The problem is that the male Rodriguez looks like nothing more than the actress with a glued-on beard and some dodgy CGI work. This aspect of the movie feels like little more than a gimmick and Rodriguez's gruff voice is pretty pathetic too. The rest of the film is the usual low rent mix of bad guys and cheap-looking action scenes which invariably disappoint. Pity poor old Sigourney Weaver, stuck in one of those roles where she's constantly talking in a room and looking very bored.

I totally agree that this film is very unusual and not so surprising from Walter Hill, a big specialist in grabe B pictures, but a high rank B movies, not garbage films at all. This story is interesting on many points, but is far from being flawless. But topics that take risks are never flawless. I did not appreciate this much. The editing could have been a little simpler; that's my own opinion. But seeing Sigourney Weaver as the heavy of the feature is also a rather good surprise.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching, "The Assignment". I love the actresses, story line, and intrigue over what happened next. I have no idea why these reviewers gave it such a low score, but imagine these people are why we have Trump as a president.

This isn't an awful movie and it does have some good moments, but I struggle to think that it really works. Firstly the story itself is pretty improbable although the idea of a mad surgeon wanted to experiment is not new it is still a bizarre thing to want to do, especially to worry about the quality of her work when changing the guys sex to female. Michelle Rodriguez does a pretty good acting job but never really convinces that she is ever male. From the outset it looked like a girl with a beard, apart from the shower scene where they must have used either CGI or good prosthetic. She also didn't really convince as an assassin and made some pretty silly errors of judgement but I guess that is down to the script rather than acting. So over all I have mixed feelings. It isn't a bad movie just not a great one.