Keaton crushes it. He and Maggie Q opposing assassins, Sam her mentor, tons of action, 100x better than preview. Rented it, now going to buy. Genuinely kickass movie. Keaton way better than anything else he's done, Maggie's hot and lethal. 10/10 storylines ok too
Interesting. I like Keaton in a serious role. I felt his best role up until this point was some movie he did years ago where he played a murderous mental patient that escaped the hospital, or was trying to...My lord he is a bad-ass evil guy in acting. I cannot recall the name of the film. Will keep an eye out for Protege, thanks.
Yeah as good as the other leads are, Keaton steals the show.... memorable. I never really liked him in anything before, but he's great in this movie. Just posted this on https://www.amazon.com/gp/f.html?C=...YA&ref_=pe_1098610_137716200_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv
...and soundtrack credits include sweet little Amy Winehouse. How many films has Sam Jackson been in, a million? Dude's able to spin up performances like LB could lay down book manuscripts... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Block#Career
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The Pink Panther Theme (2:46) 5. Goldfinger (3:00) 6. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Theme (2:47) 7. You Only Live Twice Theme (3:37) 8. Agent Double-0 Soul (2:43) 9. North by Northwest - Murder at the U.N. (3:18) 10. 007 Theme (2:58) 11. I've Got My Spies On You (2:34) 12. The Saint Theme (3:04) 13. The Man Who Knew Too Much Theme (2:14) 14. The Lady Vanishes Theme (3:03) 15. The Avengers Theme (3:15) 16. Get Smart Theme (0:55) 17. Journey Into Fear - Dead Agent (1:32) 18. Patriot Games - Electronic Battlefield (3:34) 19. The Secret Service (2:43) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins Overview The Nizari Isma'ili State, later known as the Assassins, was founded by Hassan-i Sabbah. The state was formed in 1090 after the capture of Alamut Castle in modern Iran, which served as the Assassins' headquarters. The Alamut and Lambsar castles became the foundation of a network of Isma'ili fortresses throughout Persia and Syria that formed the backbone of Assassin power, and included Syrian strongholds at Masyaf, Abu Qubays, al-Qadmus and al-Kahf. The Nizari Isma'ili State was ruled by Hassan-i Sabbah until his death in 1124. The Western world was introduced to the Assassins by the works of Marco Polo[8] who understood the name as deriving from the word hashish.[9][10][11] The rulers of the Nizari Isma'ili State were religious leaders, at first da'i and later Imams.[12] Prominent Assassin leaders operating in Syria included al-Hakim al-Munajjim, the physician-astrologer (d. 1103), Abu Tahir al-Sa’igh, the goldsmith (d. 1113), Bahram al-Da'i (d. 1127), and Rashid ad-Din Sinan, renowned as the greatest Assassin chief (d. 1193). While Assassins typically refers to the entire sect, only a group of disciples known as the fida'i actually engaged in conflict. Lacking their own army, the Nizari relied on these warriors to carry out espionage and assassinations of key enemy figures. The preferred method of killing was by dagger, nerve poison or arrows. The Assassins posed a substantial strategic threat to Fatimid, Abbasid, and Seljuk authority. Over the course of nearly 300 years, they killed hundreds - including three caliphs, a ruler of Jerusalem and several Muslim and Christian leaders.[13] The first instance of murder in the effort to establish a Nizari Isma'ili state in Persia was the assassination of Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk in 1092.[14] Other notable victims of the Assassins include Janah ad-Dawla, emir of Homs, (1103), Mawdud ibn Altuntash, atabeg of Mosul (1113), Fatimid vizier Al-Afdal Shahanshah (1121), Seljuk atabeg Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi (1126), Fatimid caliph al-Amir bi-Ahkami’l-Lah (1130), Taj al-Mulk Buri, atabeg of Damascus (1132), and Abbasid caliphs al-Mustarshid (1135) and ar-Rashid (1138). Saladin, a major foe of the Assassins, escaped assassination twice (1175-1176). The first Frank known to have been killed by the Assassins was Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, in 1152. The Assassins were acknowledged and feared by the Crusaders, losing the de facto King of Jerusalem, Conrad of Montferrat, to an Assassin's blade in 1192 and Lord Philip of Montfort of Tyre in 1270. During the rule of Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah, the Nizari Isma'ili State declined internally, and was eventually destroyed as Khurshah surrendered the castles after the Mongol invasion of Persia. Khurshah died in 1256 and, by 1275, the Mongols had destroyed and eliminated the order of Assassins.[15] Accounts of the Assassins were preserved within Western, Arabic, Syriac, and Persian sources where they are depicted as trained killers, responsible for the systematic elimination of opposing figures. European orientalists in the 19th and 20th centuries also referred to the Isma'ili Assassins in their works, writing about them based on accounts in seminal works by medieval Sunni Arab and Persian authors, particularly ibn al-Qalanisi's Mudhayyal Ta'rikh Dimashq (Continuation of the Chronicle of Damascus), ibn al-Athir's al-Kāmil fit-Tārīkh (The Complete History), and Juvayni's Tarīkh-i Jahān-gushā (History of the World Conqueror).