The phrase "a skilled assassin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing characters in literature, film, or real-life scenarios involving covert operations or espionage.
Example: "In the novel, the protagonist is portrayed as a skilled assassin, feared by many and respected by few."
Alternatives: "an expert killer" or "a proficient hitman."
Comic relief is certainly not part of the organising principle of Taken and its sequels, though the incongruity of Neeson as a skilled assassin was built into the structure of the first film – something impossible to carry over into subsequent instalments of what has become a successful franchise.
Sandra Oh plays an MI5 desk jockey turned detective who must catch a skilled assassin (played by Jodie Comer).
The story concludes the plotline begun in Venom: Carnage Unleashed with Kirstin's mother, a skilled assassin, trying to kill Venom and killing the Sin-Eater.
Oh plays MI5 desk jockey Eve Polastri, who is promoted to detective and tasked with hunting down a skilled assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
He also roams the country as a skilled crossbow assassin, followed by 130 personal vassals.
Now a skilled, ruthless assassin thanks to her training with the Faceless Men, Arya showed us exactly what she is capable of when she killed Walder Frey, who betrayed her family at the infamous Red Wedding.
Robert Zemeckis' "Allied" begins in Casablanca, 1942 — talk about setting the bar high — where two skilled assassins, played by Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, have been sent to assassinate a German ambassador.
In Olen Steinhauer's scathing portrait of the CIA, the agency's highly skilled assassins are called Tourists.
Indeed, I will argue (in a later column) that Microsoft is terminal: it has cancer, heart disease, strokes, and Alzheimer's, while also being shot, knifed, and poisoned by skilled assassins.
Trapped by a skilled inquisition.
