Critic Reviews

• Jan Stuart, Newsday

  Assassination Tango runs aground with an accumulation of small illogicalities.

• Rex Reed, New York Observer

  It's a curious and unsatisfying lark, in which Robert Duvall the actor is rendered speechless by Robert Duvall the writer and sideswiped by Robert Duvall the director.

• Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

  Its many tiny character details make up for the ludicrous story it's telling.

• Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

  A film that uses tango as a metaphor for life ought to generate some fire. But Assassination Tango offers little heat.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  What we care about in Assassination Tango is the tango, not the assassination.

• Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle

  While the assassination plot is interesting, the rest of Tango is dramatically flaccid.

• Jason Gorber, Film Scouts

  He's an old assassin, she's a young local dancing hottie, and they mix dance, lust and guns.

• Jordan Hiller, Bangitout.com

  It is a form of condescension that Duvall could only perpetrate while being blinded by true love.

• Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

  O ritmo é lento, falta foco à narração e o ato final é confuso. Por sorte, este não é um filme sobre "tramas", mas sobre personagens - e é aí que merece elogios.

• Jeremiah Kipp, ToxicUniverse.com

  It's slow, but it's also sure-footed. Duvall takes it at his own damn pace, and his grouchy old man of a contract killer is a well-rounded and wholly believable personage.

• Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

  More a song about living and dying well than a picture that makes much sense in the traditional definition.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  For tango lovers and homicidal maniacs that like to dance before killing.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  I loved this film for what it didn't try to do.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  Turgid and self-indulgent...haphazardly constructed and featuring dialogue that sounds poorly improvised--as well as a central character who's less a human being than a collection of cliches.

• Victoria Alexander, Movie Reviews in Croatian

  Are there 72 year-old hit men?

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  ...it would be a mistake to dismiss Duvall's career behind the camera as a rich character actor's hobby.

• Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune

  If Duvall wanted to celebrate his hobby, he should have made a documentary.

• Josh Larsen, Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

  You get the feeling Duvall took a tango trip to Buenos Aires and haphazardly decided to make a crime movie while staying there.

• Jason Anderson, eye WEEKLY

  While Duvall's contribution to the tango canon may not add much to its mystique, it still offers considerable pleasures to anyone who shares his interest.

• Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  Not so much a movie as a chance to sidle up alongside Robert Duvall and twirl around a cinematic dance floor with him.

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