Perfect Assassins (1998)

FBI agent Andrew McCarthy deduces a brainwashed hit man is the longlost brother of gun-loving blonde Portia de Rossi, and that he has been programmed by mad scientist Nick Mancuso, who tortured him as a child. With his ex-wiseguy best friend Robert Patrick, McCarthy heads for Mexico and Mancuso's Moreau-cum-Skinner compound where abducted kids are zombified. A lot of pop guns are fired off between tough talk until the conspiracy clamps down. Patrick and Mancuso try to add eccentric riffs to their overfamiliar characters, but softie McCarthy is nobody's idea of an action hero.
KIM NEWMAN

First Published In: Empire (issue unknown)

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