‘The Assassin’ review: "perimenopausal James Bond" hits the target

‘The Assassin’ review: "perimenopausal James Bond" hits the target

License to kill? What about license to sort breakfast and do the school run? 'The Assassin' gives the James Bond blueprint a family twist

The Assassin Review – 'Cutthroat Action'

Streaming on: Prime Video Episodes viewed: 4 of 6 The Assassin starts with an assassination. Several of them, in fact. The series opens with a masked killer making their way through a group of unlucky guards: so far, so typical of the hitman genre. But then the mask comes off. It’s at this point we're introduced to Julie (Keeley Hawes), who does something we don’t often see assassins do: check a pregnancy test, squirrelled away in her stealth su…