In The Assignment, Michelle Rodriguez plays a male hitman who’s forced to undergo surgery to live as a woman.
That doesn’t change the fact that The Assignment appropriates a minority’s very real-life experience and claims it for its own amusement and horror.
The thing is, Frank isn’t a transgender character; he’s a cis man who has, against his will, been physically feminized.
The rest of the movie follows Frank hunting down the surgeon to fulfill his own revenge mission.
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