XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

pik923 I have a huge respect for Robert Duvall. We've had the luck of watching his career - from The God Father to The Great Zantini, to The Apostle. Here is is the star, film script author and director and it is obviously a work of great love. You can feel how much he appreciates the art of tango, not just tango but going to the root of tango, going to Argentina for the 'real thing' how wonderful. The film has a gentleness, even though it is a thriller, it has a rhythm, a sensuality because it centers around the beautiful movement of the tango. The dancing is gorgeous - and reminds me in part of TANGO by Carlos Saura and of course Sally Potter's THE TANGO LESSON. This film belongs to that category of art films based on the tango.Congratulations to Robert Duvall and to Executive Producer, Francis Ford Coppola for bringing this film to the screen. Enjoy

Wayne Dear Robert Duvall made two mistakes in making Assassination Tango. First, he hired the wrong director. So watch this some evening on the IFC channel and imagine Woody Allen behind the script and the camera.Really, people, it has the classic Woody elements: an older, ratty-looking leading man; way younger hot women as romantic interests; and barely suppressed angst.Oh, yeah...the second mistake: Duvall gives up the story in the title. So after viewing this film, compare it to his work and make up your own tag. How about Invasion of the Tango Snatchers?One more observation: Manuela, the tango teacher, is played by Duvall's wife, Luciana Pedraza. Never direct your wife in a movie, or her ass might look big as it does in some tango shots.

lionel-libson-1 Robert Duvall's greatness lies in part, on his ability to become the character he's portraying, his identity subsumed in the film. In this movie, unfortunately, he emerges not as a hit man, but as an odd permutation of Harvey Keitel. I found myself wondering exactly "who" I was watching. Discovering after the fact that Duvall wrote the screenplay, all became clear. Actors tend to be empty vessels, filled by a writer's creation...Duvall mistook his acting gifts for writing talent, and produced an interesting glimpse of Buenos Aires' tango world, populated with the road show cast of "Reservoir Dogs". A few viewings of "The Official Story" might have provided better source material for Duvall, although the dialog consistently fails to ring true.

Tim Johnson Diane and I watched this engrossing film last night after she had purchased it because of her recent trip to Buenos Aries and both of us loved what we saw. I guess, because of my general drift towards evaluating films visually, I was taken by Felix Monti's cinematography which was deep and almost malevolent in its intensity--a perfect match to the unfolding drama. The movie remains open ended at its conclusion with a number of parts at the end that, as usually happens, does not leave absolutes for viewer. This ambiguity must be a factor of my lame mind but it is an obvious tool used by the Duvall to leave threads of thought left untied.As opposed to many that post their reviews of movies on this site, I use IMDb as a diary of personal impressions about films I have just seen: not necessarily thoughts about the script of a movie' just my immediate ideas that flow into my thoughts after a movie's conclusion. Hence I take movies at face value; I do not even evaluate movies that I do not like. This movie has been criticized for Duvall's appearance as an aged man; the movie's bad dancing; Dufall's arrogance in making a movie that is "his baby" alone and other attacks too numerous to mention. I cannot agree however; the movie was slow moving and as such it painted for me a delicious pastische of the life of a complicated man doing a surreal job under surreal circumstances. Of course there may be holes in the plot and holes in the execution of that plot but to my mind, a movie, as a whole, must take on a dynamic of its own and this movie certainly did for this viewer.Diane said that the shots of the cafe's and the Tango clubs and the music and the dancing are what she saw in BA when she visited last year. Duvall's direction was excellent in that all the actors delivered their lines in documentary style with no sound stage or theater theatrics. I had the feeling that I wasn't looking at a movie, except for the subject matter, just a look into the life of a guy in a foreign city doing a job. The substance of that job comes as a shock when reality kicks in towards the end but in the totality of the movie it plays such a small part.We both loved the film, no doubt for different reasons but the satisfaction was the same. Definitely check it out after reading other comments if only to see what you think.