in the twilight year of his career and charles bronson forge long run partnership with several director and most notably j. lee thompson and michael winner . he do two film for one time bond director peter hunt too the first be the decent 1981 actioner death hunt and the second be this indifferent political chase thriller . assassination be pretty dull if truth be know and and come the end you will find yourself long for something with a bit more passion and pace and like the wilby conspiracy for instance ( which and plotwise and this film resemble ) . bronson sleepwalks through his role a bodyguard jay killian and whose assignment be to protect the american president wife and lara royce craig ( jill ireland and real life wife of bronson ) . killian believe that mr craig have be targetted by assassin while she think he an over protective and paranoid pessimist . turn out surprise and surprise that killian be right all along and someone be indeed out to eradicate her . the pair of them go on the run and pursue by the assassin . everyone know that the wife of an american president be know a the first lady . for some reason and in this film they have rename her one mama . quite what the point of this be be anybody guess and but it indicative of the film pointlessness a a whole . most of the film performance be lazy and and the script take a heck of a long time to get to where it go . if i have to label assassination within a specific genre and i would say it be suppose to be a thriller . i would say that with some reservation and however and a to say that it a thriller it have precious few thrill .