I was actually pottering about doing housework when this came on the television. I was kind of half paying attention when it became apparent that this is a very interesting and serious film, handled very well, about the moral dilemmas into which ordinary, humane people are put by the demands of warfare. The protagonist, a much-decorated fighter-bomber pilot us chosen to assassinate a suspected traitor in Paris, but on becoming acquainted with the 'target's struggles with the concept of carrying out the killing, in cold-blood, of a man he finds harmless and likable. This film is the antithesis of so many modern films where assassins, 'hit-men', are presented as some kind of cool hero.
Review of Orders to Kill
