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After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible. After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible. After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.

• Walter Hill
• Denis Hamill
• Michelle Rodriguez
• Tony Shalhoub
• Anthony LaPaglia
• 140 User reviews
• 89 Critic reviews
• 34 Metascore
• 1 win & 1 nomination

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• Dr. Ralph Galen

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• Goofs At around 48:06, when the main character is videotaping herself, she points a gun directly at the camera from a distance of probably less than a foot. This has the unintended consequence of revealing that the pistol is an Airsoft replica of an M1911 .45 ACP with a much-smaller inner muzzle than that of the real firearm.

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Frank Kitchen : I killed a lot of guys. They were worthless pieces of shit, but I killed them, and you're not supposed to kill people. So what happened to me? I guess maybe in the end... it was a lot better than what I deserved. But it takes a long time to work that out. In the meantime, you just want to get get even.

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“ The Assignment ” is a film that arrives in theaters having already inspired vast outpourings of anger from two groups —the transgender community, which appears to be offended by its very premise, and action buffs, who are put off both by the premise (albeit for different reasons) and what they feel is a lazy execution that fails to offer the requisite thrills. While I am sympathetic to the complaints of both groups (somewhat more for the former) and recognize that it is indeed deeply flawed in many areas, I cannot quite agree with either. This is a modestly scaled B-movie by one of the best genre filmmakers of our time, Walter Hill , that has enough skill and personality going for it to make it worth checking out, even if it doesn’t quite live up (or down, depending on your perspective) to its borderline sleazy premise.

And what is that premise, you ask? In a nutshell, Frank Kitchen ( Michelle Rodriguez … just keep reading) is a ruthless San Francisco hitman who runs afoul of Dr. Rachel Kay ( Sigourney Weaver ), a brilliant but deranged surgeon who has lost her license for conducting various rogue experiments. Frank kills Dr. Kay’s brother, and the good doctor seeks vengeance and experimental research into the importance of physical identity on the psyche. She arranges with crime boss Honest John Hartunian ( Anthony LaPaglia ) to have him grab Frank and bring him to her secret lab, where she proceeds to perform gender reassignment surgery on him. Dr. Kay asserts that the surgery will take away Frank’s desire to kill. Needless to say, Frank sees things a little differently, and, once she discovers that the surgery cannot be reversed, she methodically hatches a grisly revenge plot on everyone involved with her transformation from Honest John and his goons all the way up to Dr. Kay. Helping Frank in her quest is Johnnie ( Caitlin Gerard ), a nurse with whom Frank had a one-night stand before his transformation and who doesn’t seem particularly nonplussed by recent developments, though it seems that she may be harboring a few secrets of her own.

At first blush, one can easily understand why the transgender community might be a tad put off by the very existence of “The Assignment,” but the actual film is nowhere near as offensive as it might initially seem. For one thing, the film as a whole is so willfully and deliberately pulpy in tone (I could easily see a short version of this tale fitting perfectly into the confines of a “ Sin City ” film) that it is hard to take the alleged provocations on display with any degree of seriousness—this is a film that is so archetypal in nature that the sort-of sweethearts at its center are literally named Frank(ie) and Johnnie. Additionally, to suggest that Frank is meant to represent all transgender people is nonsense because he is clearly not one himself, and, outside of the obvious physical construct, little about him changes after undergoing his forced surgery. I would also point out that no less of a filmmaker than Pedro Almodovar used the notion of unwilling gender reassignment surgery as a plot point in his own unabashed genre exercise, “ The Skin I Live In ,” and no one seemed especially put off by it even though the deployment there was arguably more questionable from a taste perspective than what is seen here.

That said, “The Assignment” is still a problematic work in many ways from a purely cinematic perspective. The screenplay by Hill & Denis Hamill (which Hill has been toying with since the late ‘70s) is an awkward construction with much of the story presented in a series of flashbacks, as the now-incarcerated Dr. Kay recounts the story to another psychiatrist ( Tony Shalhoub ). This concept is especially problematic since Hill is at his best when he allows characters to define themselves purely through their actions instead of relentlessly explaining themselves as they do here. The film also screams out for a more overtly stylized visual treatment in the vein of something like his great “ Streets of Fire ”—a fact underlined by the occasional bits of black-and-white photography and comic book-style transitions—that might have also helped to underscore the kind of pulpy approach Hill was clearly going for. Another big problem, at least at first, is the casting of Michelle Rodriguez as Frank. There is nothing wrong with her performance but the early scenes in which she portrays the male version of Frank, complete with a wildly unconvincing beard and a lingering close-up of his genitalia for good measure, do inspire a few bad laughs right when the film is trying to establish itself. For some viewers, it may never recover from that.

For those who can get beyond that, “The Assignment” contains plenty of points of interest. Sigourney Weaver is pretty much a blast throughout as the snidely condescending doctor who sets all of the events into motion. As for Rodriguez, once she sheds the beard, her performance improves greatly. Obviously, we know she can do the steely-eyed badass stuff as well as anyone else but she also gets a couple of quieter moments amidst the chaos where she displays a more vulnerable side without stepping out of character—in one, she consults a doctor about whether the surgery can be reversed and begins shyly inquiring about certain personal details regarding her new equipment. In the other, she is about to go to bed with Johnnie when she realizes that she has no idea of how to approach lovemaking from a female perspective. (“You’ll do fine,” she is reassured in a line that is both funny and strangely touching.) As for Hill, while he is clearly working with a lower budget than usual here (with Vancouver substituting, not too convincingly, for San Francisco), he is still able to establish a convincingly noir attitude toward the material and the scenes of violence are done in a spare and economical style that is a relief from the over-the-top pyrotechnics of most current action films. (He also gets bonus points for employing Giorgio Moroder to deliver a cheerfully retro synth score.)

It is easy to see how the dramatic excesses of the plot could prove offensive to the transgender community, though I can just as easily see “The Assignment” one day becoming a cult favorite in the way that the once-controversial “ Cruising ” would eventually find some fans within the gay community that once scorned it. As an exercise in unapologetic pulp fiction, it gets the job done in a smart, efficient and slyly subversive manner. As the latest entry in the Walter Hill filmography, it definitely belongs on the second tier. Even though it may not be the equal to a classic like “ The Driver ” or “Streets of Fire,” it will do until that next masterwork does come along.

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A hit man seeks revenge after being knocked out and awakening to discover he has been surgically turned into a woman.

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Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Walter Hill, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard

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Hitman Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) is given a lethal assignment, but after being double-crossed, he discovers he’s not the man he thought he was—he’s been surgically altered and now has the body of a woman. Seeking vengeance, Frank heads for a showdown with the person (Sigourney Weaver) who transformed him, a brilliant surgeon with a chilling agenda of her own.

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• Michelle Rodriguez is to play the hitman while Sigourney Weaver is the scalpel-wielding doctor.
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The Assignment was a Limited release in 2017 on Friday, April 7, 2017 . There were 18 other movies released on the same date, including Going in Style , Smurfs: The Lost Village and The Case for Christ . As a Limited release, The Assignment will only be shown in select movie theaters across major markets. Please check Fandango and Atom Tickets to see if the film is playing in your area.

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• Michelle Rodriguez as Frank Kitchen / Tomboy
• Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Rachel Kay
• Tony Shalhoub as Dr. Ralph Galen
• Anthony LaPaglia as Honest John Hartunian
• Caitlin Gerard
• Paul McGillion
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• Ken Kirzinger as Nurse Albert Becker
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The jaw drops once the outrageous audacity of (Re)Assignment's premise sinks in. The doctor (Sigourney Weaver) is a brilliant but unhinged cosmetic surgeon, first seen straitjacketed in an interrogation room. Calmly, and not without pride, she recounts to her psychiatrist (Tony Shalhoub) how she got there.

A lowlife killer named Frank Kitchen killed her brother, so she took her ultimate revenge. She captured him and conducted full gender-reassignment surgery. Now Frank (Michelle Rodriguez) is forced to face the world as a woman. Confused, pissed off, and as macho as ever, she's out for her own vengeance.

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The Assignment (working titles Tomboy, a Revenger's Tale and (Re) Assignment) is an American crime-thriller film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Denis Hamill. The film stars Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Terry Chen, Paul McGillion, and Caitlin Gerard.

The film centres on Frank/Tomboy Kitchen (Rodriguez), a contract killer who is seeking revenge after being involuntarily subjected to gender reassignment surgery by the sociopathic Dr. Rachel Kay (Weaver).

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The assignment.

Directed by Walter Hill

A revenger's tale.

Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

Michelle Rodriguez Sigourney Weaver Tony Shalhoub Caitlin Gerard Anthony LaPaglia Paul McGillion Ken Kirzinger Paul Lazenby Zak Santiago Adrian Hough Alex Zahara Chad Riley Jason Asuncion Darryl Quon Hugo Ateo Sergio Osuna Terry Chen Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle Caroline Chan Lia Lam Eltie Pearce

Director Director

Walter Hill

Producers Producers

Michel Merkt Saïd Ben Saïd Todd Giroux John Lind Sarah Borch-Jacobsen Kevin Chneiweiss Alexia S. Droz Suzan Derkson Harvey Kahn

Writers Writers

Walter Hill Denis Hamill

Story Story

Denis Hamill Walter Hill

Casting Casting

Sheila Jaffe Candice Elzinga Sandra Couldwell

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Phil Norden

Cinematography Cinematography

James Liston

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John Lind Annabelle Wilczur

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James M. Jackson Cameron Root Jason Weir

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Bruce Borland Dale H. Jahraus

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Kris Wood Geena Renk Jess Brown Brent Boulet

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Melissa R. Stubbs Paul Lazenby Jason Asuncion

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Raney Shockne Giorgio Moroder

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Bill Mellow James Fonnyadt Daniel Cardona Bryson Dodwell Kelly Cole

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Ellen Anderson

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Courtney Frey Joel Echallier Agnieszka Echallier

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Jessica Rain

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Review by Sally Jane Black 12

CW: HRT/transition-related surgery

We are not born into the wrong body. We are born into the wrong society.

As I take hormones to alter my body, I am not gaining a new body. My body is naturally reacting to the estrogen and testosterone-suppressors I am putting into it. It's still the same body I have always had. It's a different shape. It's softer. But it's the same body I have had for 35 years. When I get the surgery I need, I will not be losing my body, either. This is the right body for me. My transformation is merely one of presentation. It is no more radical than any other bodily changes a person undergoes.

We are not born…

Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★½ 10

Action! - The Unlikely Rumble: Hill v Hyams

So we end the first half of our combat with Hill returning to the vengeance genre, bringing his Western sensibilities to a picture where guns and retribution are the order of the day.

Michelle Rodriguez is great in this role, while her first appearance as a "man" was laughably poor. The beard and everything looked terribly fake, and it was even funnier that she was acknowledged twice in the closing credits. Now, having said that, when the wicked revengeful doctor, nicely played by Weaver, completed the "sex change" on Michelle's character Frank, Rodriguez did an great job modulating her voice and making it more rougher, and even as she leaned over and…

Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★★★★½ 12

100% Ray Blanchard's fault Signourney Weaver has to be out here force-femming mob hit men into Michelle Rodriguez to obtain cast-iron proof that gender dysphoria is an innate condition irreducible to paraphilia in the year of our lord 2016, an obvious fact known to science in the 19th Century and then violently memory-holed as needed by whatever variety of fascist forgetting this was expedient for ever since. If nothing else, The Assignment might be useful to watch with clueless boomer (grand)parents in order to get them to think constructively about the experience of gender dysphoria??? U could tell them before sitting down to watch that there was a reason u checked Girlfight out of Blockbuster so many times and that…

Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

So cheap, so in love with its own lurid pulp. It is as unplausible as its underworld, which is part of what so pleasurable about it. That cheapstake vile movie atmosphere is the movie, pure surface ugliness that never suggests the real thing, but just drown in its own texture. The kind of preposterous film with a mad doctor quoting Shakespeare and Poe for added gravitas that everyone treats for the bullshit it actually is. Rodriguez's Frank Kitchen is so good at what he does, The Assignment is never an actual an action movie, what it does purpose is a double narrative crashing on itself (Hill's usual hunter/hunted motif taking to an unique lurid extreme), the idea of identity becoming…

Review by matt lynch ★★★

Hill comes right out and says that this should stand on style alone...it doesn't (and yikes some of those animated transitions are dire), but his (somewhat clueless, but still) insistence on keeping this a pulpy shock noir is kinda admirable.

Review by Dawson Joyce ★

With a premise this risky, unique, and thought-provoking and a more than capable cast and crew onboard, it is such a shame to see The Assignment come out not an enjoyably trashy piece of exploitation fun but instead a brutally boring, utterly lifeless mess of a film lacking in both strong characterization and entertaining action, and the fact that this was a passion project of director Walter Hill since the 70's makes the joyless and mundane end result even more baffling. Also, this film officially disproves the idiotic to begin with theory that lead star Michelle Rodriguez looks too masculine.

Review by Jesse Snoddon ★ 2

"It's hard to go back to Frank Kitchen when you look like a chick"

After stupidly named hitman Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) takes out Dr. Rachel Kay's (Sigourney Weaver) brother, Kay enacts revenge by having Frank abducted and performing a sex change operation on him against his will. 

As a fan of Walter Hill's movies, it pains me to say this is awful. Without even getting into the more controversial elements (to the film's credit Hill seems to be trying to make the point that we are who we are inside and physically changing someone won't alter that if it's against there will...but Hill is likely not the person to have this conversation and in over his head on that…

Review by comrade_yui 2

walter hill not being a provocative reactionary dumbass makes this way less exploitative than it actually should be. it's jam-packed with several elements of his previous works, and i can't help but see this as a return to form after his dreadful output since the end of the 90s. it's slick, peppered with punchy dialogue and efficiently constructed in the way that his best films are. at the time this came out, i probably would have despised it just from the premise alone, but at this point it feels really harmless compared to the relatively high toxicity that we get from zahler, snyder and bay. reading interviews with hill and seeing the actual text here, it's clear that this film…

Review by Biscoito18 ½ 3

I'd never realized how feminine Michelle Rodriguez was until seeing her trying to pass as a biological man.

It's impossible to buy the illusion, not only because she is a very famous actress, but also because the make up is terrible and her silhouette, voice and walk remains the same.

Looks more like a bad comedy sketch (they even gave her a hilarious CGI penis and hairy chest!!!) but the tone is so dead serious that nothing works properly. It's a VERY strange movie with a very strange editing too.

Trying to adjust the tone, they even add some cartoons here and there to give a grindhouse/hq vibe to it, but ends up being another lame aspect in the weak…

Review by Rachel

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Why the name change to Tomboy on UK Netflix? Like it don’t make it a good movie

Review by Cinema_Strikes ★★½ 2

This came out to a lot of kerfluffle - seemingly mostly from people who hadn’t seen the movie - about whether it was offensive in its treatment of trans rights, but hardly seems worth the bother of getting offended. It’s a fairly bog standard pulpy action revenge thriller, and the central issue of Michelle Rodriguez getting forcibly gender swapped doesn’t seem to have any legitimate bearing on trans issues - the character is not a trans person, but someone who had their body altered without their consent (more akin to the Remade in China Mieville’s Bas-Lag series), which seems an entirely different issue, at least to this admittedly ignorant viewer. I’m sure I’m missing plenty of nuance, but honestly this…

Review by Scout Tafoya ★★★½

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Hill snapped into place on another level for me when I was watching this and remembered the scene in The Driver where he smashes up that gorgeous orange Mercedes. I watched it with my dad when I was in college and neither of us understood it. Years pass and I'm watching this and I'm thinking about other moments in Hill films where characters try to sort of shed their skin because of Hill's existential body dysmorphia and my brain feeds me the scene and says without hesitation "Well there's that scene in The Driver when O'Neal destroys the car because he can't tear his skin off and reveal the bottomless void in his soul." Like somehow, at some…

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Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

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He once considered quitting baseball. Now Rangers’ Daniel Robert is getting his chance

The right-hander played in the field in college and said, “i just started learning how to pitch in 2019.”.

By Shawn McFarland

10:53 PM on Jul 8, 2024 CDT

ANAHEIM — There were plenty of times that Daniel Robert considered retirement. There were, at least, plenty of flags that could’ve steered him toward that direction.

He hardly pitched in college but had to overcome season-ending elbow surgery to even earn a contract. A broken arm derailed him when he finally did reach the professional ranks. He was, at one point, well into adulthood, more than a stone’s throw away from the major leagues and surviving on a minor league baseball player’s salary.

“I was 27 with a week of High-A time seeing everybody that I grew up with doing their own thing,” Robert said Monday. “and I’m in a cast in Arizona with not a ton to my name. There were a lot of times [I considered quitting].”

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“I’m glad he didn’t — we’re glad he didn’t,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said Monday at Angels Stadium. “and I’m sure he is too.”

Robert, a 29-year-old right-handed pitcher and a former 21st-round draft pick had his contract selected by the Texas Rangers on Monday before their series-opening game against the Los Angeles Angels. Right-hander Grant Anderson was optioned to Triple-A Round Rock to clear a major league roster spot, and left-hander Antoine Kelly was designated for assignment to clear space on the 40-man.

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General manager Chris Young called Robert, who had been with Triple-A Round Rock, late Sunday night to inform him of the promotion. Robert’s gear was in Reno, Nev., where the Express are scheduled to play this week, so he had to scrounge for equipment in the affiliate’s clubhouse.

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That might’ve been the easiest task.

“If it wasn’t for other people around me,” Robert said inside the Angels Stadium visitor’s clubhouse, “this was in no way possible. It was a lot of long nights, not a lot of money. It was leaning on my support system.”

The road that Robert took from college baseball to the major leagues was not for the faint of heart. It was hardly typical, either. Like, this is how it began:

“I got drafted as a pitcher,” Robert said. “which was strange-ish.”

Strange-ish because Robert, really, was not a pitcher. He had thrown just 15 2/3 innings in three seasons at Auburn — more than half of which came during part-time duty during his senior year — but he slashed .290/.402/.429 in 60 games which were largely spent at first base or in the outfield in his fourth and final season with the Tigers. The Rangers still plucked the 6-4 righty with the 644th pick in the draft with the hope that they could work his projectable frame into a practical arm.

There was a snag, though. Robert experienced elbow issues in his senior year but never underwent an MRI because he hit every day. He reported to the Rangers’ facility in Arizona after the draft, at which point it was determined that he needed Tommy John surgery. The Rangers — who had not signed Robert to a contract at this point — allowed him to undergo his operation back at Auburn.

He underwent Tommy John surgery in July of 2017, rehabbed “pretty intensely” and threw off the mound just six months later in January of 2018 in an attempt to sign a contract before spring training. Texas officially signed Robert as a free agent that winter.

“I just started learning how to pitch in 2019,” Robert said. “and tried to get better every year.”

Robert yielded a 0.99 ERA in his first season of professional baseball in 2019 with Texas’ Short-A and Single-A teams. He did not pitch in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was limited to just 22 and 2/3 innings one season later after a comebacker broke his arm in May. He posted a 6.28 ERA in 2022 and a 4.40 ERA in 2023, both in Triple-A, but had recorded a 2.35 ERA in 30 and 2/3 innings pitched out of Round Rock’s bullpen this season.

Opponents have hit just .132 against Robert this season and he’s whittled his walks-per-nine-innings down to just 2.05. The difference, Robert said, is that he’s thrown more strikes. He was invited to big league camp this spring and worked with Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux, who urged Robert to “trust his stuff.”

“The talent has always been there,” Young said of Robert, whose fastball sits in the mid 90′s and can reach 97 mph. “He’s continued to grow in terms of understanding what he has to do to be successful. The stuff is phenomenal, and just time and experience. Some guys peak at 18, some guys peak at 28. Maybe he’s peaking at 30? Who knows?”

Has Robert peaked? It’s too early to tell. It might be irrelevant, too. It’s quite a summit that he’s reached considering where he began.

“You love the stories of perseverance,” said Bochy, who said that Robert could help the Rangers in high-leverage situations. “That’s certainly been the case with him.”

Shawn McFarland , Texas Rangers reporter . Shawn covers the Texas Rangers and other Dallas-area sports for The News. He joined The Dallas Morning News after covering UConn basketball, football and high school sports for The Hartford Courant. A Boston area native, Shawn graduated from Springfield College in 2018 and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Baseball America.