Last Will & Testament

'Last Will & Testament ''? '''is a 1987 British American Action Thriller Drama Science Fiction Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Brian De Palma.

The film stars Tess Harper, Ed Harris, Richard Dean Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Victoria Principal, Mary Ellen Trainor and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.

The film is a becnhmark in American history and was a huge commercial success as well as audience and critic favourite.

The film was amongst the first to combine the genres it did and is considered to be one of director/writer De Palma's finest works of cinema.

The film was released theatrically on October 19th, 1987.

Plot
A female assassin Jezebel Clarity is checked into the Texas Memorial Hospital where she is executed by a blonde assassin Harleen Davies.

A nurse Ione Whittle witnesses the killing and then herself is pursued by the woman and five other individuals who corner her in a medicine closet.

The leader of the five named Jonathen Bloome proceeds to seize her by the throat and strangle her.

Believing she is dead Jonathen and the others leave the unconsious Ione in the medicine closet.

When she comes to police officers and paramedics surround and begin to ask questions as to what happened.

Ione however asks as to wether the patient Jezebel Clarity is dead to which they confirm.

They inform that the woman was discovered to be long lost sibling and then proceed to ask wether she saw what happened.

She lies and claims she did not see anything and sets out on a mission of revenge to kill those who took her sister's life.

She tracks down the master assassin who trained her sister Mr. Yuki Tamagoshi who trains her in the art of swordplay, hand to hand combat and the deadliest martial arts moves one can master as well as the use of other weapons.

He soon is killed by the other male of the five that killed her sister Antonios Seville who blows him away with his trademark shotgun weapon.

Ione then comes for the group one by one engaging in bombastic all out battles with each before executing them.

First she takes care of Marina Everett a former victim of severe bullying in high school who commited her first murder at age 12 and has gone on to be the CEO of a large company distributing virtual stimulations of her creation.

She faces off against in a sword play with Marina in a stimulation and executes her via cutting her in half.

She then comes for Lois Douglas who was formerly a for hire assassin turnt homemaker raising her niece after her sister perished in a terrible car accident along with her brother in law.

An at home battle occurs whilest the niece Jenna is away at a friends house for the night.

Lois is executed as Ione slashes her across the throat with a garden trowel.

She then comes for cowboy entertainer Antonios Seville who she locates in the Nevada Desert.

She faces off against him but he gets the upper hand and renders her unconsious.

He places her in the back of his wagon and plunges the vehicle off a cliff.

She escapes just in time and latches onto the cliff as she arises upward.

Her emergence distracts Antonios as her sister's killer Harleen Davies comes to the scene and blows apart Antonios' head with a sawed shotgun.