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Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a criminal psychologist. He is a happily married family man with a loving wife, Karen (Kim Delaney) and two children. All that is about to change when he is in a terrible car accident on his way to work, in which he loses his arm.

Doctors are able to give him a new arm from a donor, thanks to the ingenuity of Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan). Soon after the operation - hailed as a success - Bill is being haunted by nightmarish images. It is revealed the arm he received belonged to a vicious killer named Charles Fletcher, who killed more than twenty people, and was executed.

When Bill starts experiencing violent tendencies, he distances himself from his family (to protect them) while investigating Charles. He learns there is much more beyond the operation - and Dr. Webb - than meets the eye.

Remo Lacey, a painter, received Charles' left arm, and he is suddenly overcome by inspirations for his work, also based on haunting images. Unlike Bill, Remo embraces the change in him. A young athlete, Mark Draper (Peter Murnik), received Charles' legs. Bill at times loses control of his arm, while Mark loses control of his legs.

Now, Bill wants the arm removed, but Charles Fletcher - who's head was attached to a new body - now wants his body parts back! 'Body Parts' has a great premise for a horror movie, and the effects and action sequences are awesome. The film also features very good performances from a great cast. I enjoyed this.

Sylvester Stallone stars as assassin Robert Rath. While about to conclude his next assignment, another assassin, Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas) eliminates the target. Bain is captured by the police, but escapes and soon Bain and Rath find themselves in a cat and mouse game. Distrusting the agency, Rath wants out, but one last assignment offers $2 million, which he accepts.

His assignment is to eliminate four Dutch buyers, retrieve a disc and terminate the surveillance expert, Electra (Julianne Moore), selling stolen data to the Dutch buyers. Things get complicated for Rath when Bain once again shows up, and Rath decides to help Electra.

The premise is good but it was unclear what information the disc contained and why it was so valuable. If the contractor was prepared to pay $2 million (and later $20 million) they should at least have told us more about the data. It felt as if the writers didn't really care about this information, and merely wanted to write an action thriller without really giving it much thought.

As with most of these kind of movies, it was predictable for Rath and Electra to become romantically involved. At least here it was subtle, and believable.

As for the action sequences, yes, they are very good. Antonio Banderas steals the show as the villain with a fantastic performance. In general, 'Assassins' is exciting and entertaining and delivers what it sets out to do.

The viewer is immediately dropped smack bang into the action in an opening scene so impressive it looked like the film's climax.

It is 1996. Sociopathic criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), keeps a busload of people hostage in an abandoned building. After failing to save the hostages - and involuntarily causing their deaths - Sergeant John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) - together with Simon - is sentenced to several decades sub-zero rehabilitation.

In 2032, Simon escapes during his parole hearing, killing several officers. The City of San Angeles has since become a crime-free city and the police is no longer used to violence and don't carry guns. When Simon kills several more people and causes havoc in the city, they realize there is only one man wo can stop him: the same man who captured him back in 1996 - John Spartan.

John finds it difficult to adapt to the 'new' world and this causes many funny moments. It's just a bit unrealistic that the population could - or would - have adapted so easily and quickly to the new way of life in just 36 years, especially considering the fact many of the characters were older. It was a bit exaggerated, but nevertheless still fun. There's also plenty of satire.

Sandra Bullock stars as Lieutenant Lenina Huxley, who works together with John - well, sort of - to capture Simon. She serves mainly as comic relief, as her character is never to be taken seriously.

Being a big budget Sylvester Stallone film, there is action galore - Hollywood big budget style! Both Stallone and Snipes are in top form and I rather enjoyed Snipes as the villain. And boy, they seriously meant to give this film a CLIMAX!