Product Description

A CIA assassin attempts to break out of the contract killing business to try to lead a normal life. But when the system tracks her down and frames her for the death of her husband, she embarks on a path of revenge that leads her back into the life she tried so hard to abandon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19345 in DVD
• Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENT.
• Released on: 2009-01-13
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 86 minutes

Features

• Desperate to live a "normal" life after functioning for years as a contract killer for the CIA, a female assassin learns that this is one job that she can't just walk away from when "the system" frames her for the murder of the person she loves most. Accused of killing her husband and hunted by the very people she once worked for, the trained assassin hatches a plan to hit back

Customer Reviews

Good for what it is: a fast action thriller !
If you are into Action Thrillers then this is for you, otherwise don't even bother with this DVD. The Story is nothing special, but also not a run of the mill type that would bore the audience. What distinguishes this film are the fast paced action parts which are well dispersed throughout the film. The protagonist is a young woman that has been set up by "her" own intelligence agency that she's working for as a contract killer. When her job is done she was supposed to be killed in order to get rid of any lose ends for her contractors who are in the highest positions of that intelligence agency. She, however, manages to escape her henchmen and turns the tables on the contrators once she discovers that they have been into some very illeagle schemes. Enough said, its worth watching, especially for the action scenes and the thrills that go along with them.

THUMBS UP ON THIS DVD PREMIERE!
Solid action flick. Good acting and moving plot. Must have for any true action fan. I haven't heard of the actors but am impressed by Frida Farrel. She plays a bad a** CIA assasin trying to break out of the killing business and live a regular life. As suits continue to follow her around, suspense ensues. The only thing about this movie is that it will make you paranoid by the end, sorta like the BOURNE movies or an ENEMY OF THE STATE.

Probably looked better on paper...
Contract Killers may have looked better on paper, but the more I dwell on it, the less I think anything could make it look better.

The movie follows a conspiracy theory of higher ups in the intelligence community plotting mysterious wicked things. Our hero, an assassin who calls herself Jane, gets involved via a contract she pulled off, and she becomes enraged when she wakes up to find her husband murdered. The FBI comes to take her away, she brutally kills some innocent S.W.A.T. members who were trying to apprehend her, she escapes thanks to one smokebomb a gasleak and a scooter, and I immediately lose respect for both the protaganist and the film in the first ten minutes.

From there we race off into danger. Although, instead of "race" I should say we begin at a moderate pace. Somewhere around a jog, not a sprint. And the danger turns out to be a some other assassin hot on her tail and another government official.

The action scenes are what you would expect a handful of teenagers re-enacting their favorite scenes from the Bourne trilogy to film. Which is to say that they're boring.

The plot held a bit of mystery, too bad that mystery was revealed to be a big plate of boring and forgettable. Also, once the mystery was revealed, the movie finally decides to actually race somewhere: the ending. Forget dwelling on any of the implications of the reveal, or even, I don't know, giving the reveal some kind of climatic feel whatsoever, we are immediately picked up and placed down in the final shootout of the film. A couple of epilogues for the characters of both teams and the credits roll.

I, luckily, got this one for free and was hesitant to watch it, but the cover finally convinced me that maybe there was some kind of fun to be had from Contract Killers. Nope, wrong, there isn't!