assassination of a former U.K. PM (Pierce Brosnan) Salt – 2010 film by Phillip Noyce in which Soviet-era moles target the Russian and American presidents Red – 2010 film by Robert Schwentke where a retired CIA agent (Bruce Willis) pursues a plan to kill a war criminal, the U.S. Vice President The Expendables – 2010 film by Sylvester Stallone about a multinational military force (Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, others) tasked with assassinating a South American dictator Green Zone – 2010 film by Paul Greengrass about a U.S. soldier (Matt Damon) who tries to prevent the assassination of an Iraqi general by U.S. government death squads Machete – 2010 film by Robert Rodriguez about a former Mexican federale (Danny Trejo) whose assassination of a corrupt U.S. senator goes awry Edge of Darkness – 2010 film by Martin Campbell about the murder of a corporate whistleblower and the investigation by her father (Mel Gibson) The American – 2010 film by Anton Corbijn The Kennedys – 2011 History Television/ReelzChannel miniseries by Jon Cassar where U.S. President Jack Kennedy (Greg Kinnear) is killed by a Dallas Book Depository employee who is then killed, while his brother Bobby (Barry Pepper) is killed five years later El asesinato de Carrero Blanco – 2011 ETB miniseries by Miguel Bardem about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco (José Ángel Egido), Francisco Franco's Prime Minister, by the ETA in 1973 J. Edgar – 2011 film by Clint Eastwood about FBI director J. Edgar Hoover includes the 1919 anarchist bomb attacks against U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and others The Devil's Double – 2011 film by Lee Tamahori involves several attempted assassinations of Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday (Dominic Cooper), or Uday's double, Latif Yahia (Cooper) Killer Elite – 2011 remake by Gary McKendry in which ex-Special Forces hitmen try to kill ex-SAS men, including author Ranulph Fiennes, over a grudge about a 1972 Omani battle Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – 2011 film by Lasse Hallström with an attempt on a Yemeni sheikh (Amr Waked) for bringing water to the desert against God's will The Double – 2011 film by Michael Brandt involving the murder of a U.S. Senator The Mechanic – 2011 remake by Simon West about a hitman (Jason Statham), his protégé (Ben Foster), a drug lord, and a TV evangelist Assassination Games – 2011 film by Ernie Barbarash where two hitmen team up against