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Badge of the Assassin

Badge of the Assassin

Badge of the Assassin

1985
Drama
TV Movie
2h 0m
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans. (imdb)

Directed by:

Mel Damski
Mel-Damski
32 total credits
Mel Damski has 32 credits at Criticker, including: Yellowbeard, Mischief, Legendary, Early Edition and Breakout Kings

Writers:

Lawrence Roman
Lawrence-Roman
14 total credits
Lawrence Roman has 14 credits at Criticker, including: A Kiss Before Dying, McQ, Naked Alibi, The Swinger and Paper Lion
,
Philip Rosenberg
Philip-Rosenberg
9 total credits
Philip Rosenberg has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Badge of the Assassin, Murder of Innocence, Close to Danger, Contract on Cherry Street and Detective

Starring:

Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet-Kotto
56 total credits
Yaphet Kotto has 56 credits at Criticker, including: Alien, The Running Man, Live and Let Die, Midnight Run and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
,
James Woods
James-Woods
90 total credits
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Ghosts of Mississippi and Casino and as the Disney villain Hades in Hercules. Acting awards include two Emmy Awards and two Academy Award nominations... (Wikipedia)
,
Pam Grier
Pam-Grier
63 total credits
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974's Foxy Brown. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She is one of a few African-American actresses to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress... (Wikipedia)
,
Richard Bradford
Richard-Bradford
33 total credits
Richard Bradford has 33 credits at Criticker, including: The Untouchables, Internal Affairs, The Crossing Guard, The Chase and The Missouri Breaks
,
David Harris
David-Harris
12 total credits
David Harris has 12 credits at Criticker, including: The Warriors, A Soldier's Story, Jerusalem Countdown, Fire with Fire and Badge of the Assassin
,
Rae Dawn Chong
Rae-Dawn-Chong
52 total credits
Rae Dawn Chong has 52 credits at Criticker, including: Commando, The Color Purple, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Quest for Fire and Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
,
Alex Rocco
Alex-Rocco
42 total credits
Alex Rocco has 42 credits at Criticker, including: The Wedding Planner, Find Me Guilty, Batman: Year One, The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Dudley Do-Right
,
Akosua Busia
Akosua-Busia
14 total credits
Akosua Busia grew up in Ghana, and began her acting career at the age of 16, attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama on scholarship. Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is the daughter of a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. Akosua
,
Steven Keats
Steven-Keats
20 total credits
Steven Keats has 20 credits at Criticker, including: Death Wish, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Black Sunday, Silent Rage and Hester Street
,
Kene Holiday
Kene-Holiday
9 total credits
Kene Holiday has 9 credits at Criticker, including: The Philadelphia Experiment, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Matlock, The Josephine Baker Story and G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
,
Richard Brooks
Richard-Brooks
21 total credits
Richard Brooks has 21 credits at Criticker, including: The Hidden, The Crow: City of Angels, The Substitute, To Sleep with Anger and Shakedown
,
Tamu Blackwell
Tamu-Blackwell
3 total credits
Tamu Blackwell has 3 credits at Criticker, including: Claudine, Badge of the Assassin and Crisis at Central High

Genre:

Drama

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Badge of the Assassin

1985
Drama
TV Movie
2h 0m
Avg Percentile 42.44% from 9 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

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Rated 18 Dec 2023
45
21st
Great cast, but a bland and strictly generic treatment of the subject matter with what you might call a very Blue Lives Matter perspective on Black nationalism.
Rated 21 Sep 2023
44
14th
The pieces are there but they don't fit into a satisfying picture. Did the world miss out on something special? Yes, yes we did. Detective Kotto and DA Woods could've fleshed out a great relationship over the course of a tv season but it's too stilted here with the limited time provided. Don't take my word for it though. I thought the world missed out on something special when they went with Daniel Craig as James Bond instead of Lorenzo Lamas.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Mel Damski
Mel-Damski
32 total credits
Mel Damski has 32 credits at Criticker, including: Yellowbeard, Mischief, Legendary, Early Edition and Breakout Kings

Writers:

Lawrence Roman
Lawrence-Roman
14 total credits
Lawrence Roman has 14 credits at Criticker, including: A Kiss Before Dying, McQ, Naked Alibi, The Swinger and Paper Lion
,
Philip Rosenberg
Philip-Rosenberg
9 total credits
Philip Rosenberg has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Badge of the Assassin, Murder of Innocence, Close to Danger, Contract on Cherry Street and Detective

Starring:

Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet-Kotto
56 total credits
Yaphet Kotto has 56 credits at Criticker, including: Alien, The Running Man, Live and Let Die, Midnight Run and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
,
James Woods
James-Woods
90 total credits
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Ghosts of Mississippi and Casino and as the Disney villain Hades in Hercules. Acting awards include two Emmy Awards and two Academy Award nominations... (Wikipedia)
,
Pam Grier
Pam-Grier
63 total credits
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974's Foxy Brown. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She is one of a few African-American actresses to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress... (Wikipedia)
,
Richard Bradford
Richard-Bradford
33 total credits
Richard Bradford has 33 credits at Criticker, including: The Untouchables, Internal Affairs, The Crossing Guard, The Chase and The Missouri Breaks
,
David Harris
David-Harris
12 total credits
David Harris has 12 credits at Criticker, including: The Warriors, A Soldier's Story, Jerusalem Countdown, Fire with Fire and Badge of the Assassin
,
Rae Dawn Chong
Rae-Dawn-Chong
52 total credits
Rae Dawn Chong has 52 credits at Criticker, including: Commando, The Color Purple, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Quest for Fire and Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
,
Alex Rocco
Alex-Rocco
42 total credits
Alex Rocco has 42 credits at Criticker, including: The Wedding Planner, Find Me Guilty, Batman: Year One, The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Dudley Do-Right
,
Akosua Busia
Akosua-Busia
14 total credits
Akosua Busia grew up in Ghana, and began her acting career at the age of 16, attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama on scholarship. Her first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is the daughter of a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. Akosua
,
Steven Keats
Steven-Keats
20 total credits
Steven Keats has 20 credits at Criticker, including: Death Wish, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Black Sunday, Silent Rage and Hester Street
,
Kene Holiday
Kene-Holiday
9 total credits
Kene Holiday has 9 credits at Criticker, including: The Philadelphia Experiment, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Matlock, The Josephine Baker Story and G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
,
Richard Brooks
Richard-Brooks
21 total credits
Richard Brooks has 21 credits at Criticker, including: The Hidden, The Crow: City of Angels, The Substitute, To Sleep with Anger and Shakedown
,
Tamu Blackwell
Tamu-Blackwell
3 total credits
Tamu Blackwell has 3 credits at Criticker, including: Claudine, Badge of the Assassin and Crisis at Central High

Genre:

Drama

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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