The Mission

This offbeat, thoroughly engaging film has Touzie playing a hit man from Iran, sent by the Khomeini regime to eliminate enemies of the state and former allies of the deposed Shah. In New York, his new assignment is to bump off Sayyad, a former colonel in the Shah's SAVAK secret police. As a devout Muslim in the Babylon of New York City, Touzie goes through numerous culture shocks to which he cannot adjust, such as a lightly clad Marilyn Monroe displayed openly on television. Eventually he closes in on his victim, but before he can strike, he inadvertently saves his target from being mugged. Sayyad, grateful for what his fellow countryman has done, takes his would-b...