Assassination Games (2011)

Simply A Masterpiece

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

*SPOILERS* Assassination Games (2011) is not a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie I remember, watch a Lionheart (1990) instead with Van Damme that is the real movie. This movie however Is not a JCVD movie! I love the "classic" Van Damme action movies that I grew up. Direct to video movies he made that I like are The Order, Replicant, In Hell, Wake of Death, 6 Bullets, Pound of Flash and Until Death. This movie however sucks ass! This one is horrible. Boring, almost pathetic. It seems that action stars who aren't successful anymore, like Van Damme or Wesley Snipes, are making movies in Romania, mostly cheap action movies which apparently want to cash in on the old reputation of these action stars. Pathetic. Again: This movie is no fun at all, save your money.I'll never understand the praise for this film. I'm sure someone will try to explain it to me...please feel free. Cinematography that has a Poor-Yellow Color on everything, Van Damme in 'Zombie Mode', an ending that is just 'a Remote-Controlled Gun in a Lame Way', lack of excitement/thrills/action, zero chemistry between its' leads, and a boring as hell storyline. The dialogue is horrible, not watchable, the color is yellow. Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins gave the worst performances of their life's! The action is terrible, the martial arts are not in this movie at all. All the time I kept seeing yellow color, thank god I did not pre order this movie on Blu-ray cause it so suck.I don't get why anyone likes this movie? Why is 6,2 on IMDb? I don't get it. This movie is a poor movie not a Van Damme I remember. I don't care for this crappy movie. It is boring and doesn't deserve the high rating on IMDb. I will never watch it again! What a waste of 2 great on screen martial artists! Scott Adkins also was the king in The Legend of Hercules and he sucked in that too. His acting is rough around the edges and it does bother me.This movie is just terrible, awful and I don't get it. I would rather watch The Killer (1989) with Chow Yun Fat and director John Woo than this poor lame Ernie Barbarash crappy movie. No martial arts in here, no epic fights really nothing! Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) at least had an epic fights between Van Damme and Adkins, this movie has nothing, pat poor lines from two stars. This movie get's an 1 from me :P.Assassination Games is a 2011 American action film directed by Ernie Barbarash, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins. The film was released in the United States on July 29, 2011.1/10 Grade: F Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins Director: Ernie Barbarash Producers: Justin Bursch, Brad Krevoy, Patrick Newall Screenplay: Aaron Rahsaan Thomas Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 41 Mins. Budget: $8.000.000 Box Office: $3,400,000

In little words --- what else could a man want from a movie. I mean i am no expert or a qualified guy but of late there have been very few movies that have been so riveting. I mean I went to see Thor 2nd. I expected it to be a drab and it was so as with Robocop and all the other big budget movies with their promotion and gizmo's, they literally suck. I went in to watch this movie expecting it to be another mindless bore but what i saw was repeated yeah... but well done. And lo and behold i was a fan of Jean-Claude van Damme all over again. Scott Adkins was great. Different from his "Undisputed" self. Jean has used hid age gained calmness well.

This Van Damme action picture displays lots of violence, action filled, thrills and fierce combats . It is entertaining , well paced and including interesting characters . It's thrilling and tense , at time suspenseful movie and the firepower, explosion, struggles, shootouts are very well done . It deals with two assassins agree to work together as one named Roland Flint (Scott Adkins who replaced Vinnie Jones) attempts to revenge his wife (Bianca Bree , also producer) and the other named Vincent Brazil (Jean Claude Van Damme) collect a reward for a job to kill a mobster (Ivan Kaye) which is backed by dirty Interpol Agents . Meanwhile , Vincent helps a prostitute (Marija Karan) but the events go wrong .¨Assassination games¨ is one of Van Damme's better films . It packs violent action, suspense, shoot-outs, and martial arts fighting and results to be quite amusing . Entertaining movie , thanks to tight pace, skillful edition and well mounted combats . It's tense and exciting , at time lackluster action movie , but the struggles and fighting are well done . During the scene where Flint visits Polo's 'hardware guy', he utilizes a laser-guided gun to target him , the effects used for the mechanical movement is taken from Robocop (1987) . Suffering Van Damme plays finely an affected killer , acting similarly to 'Hard cops' . Enjoyable relationship among two rival assassins , nicely played by Van Damme and Adkins ; both of them form an uneasy alliance to take down a deadly target . Van Damme is good as action hero in this middling budget filmed in Bucharest, Romania and New Orleans, Louisiana ; here Jean Claude plays a hit man , confronting nasties and using his martial-arts skills . Long time ago he played big budget movies (¨Time cop¨, ¨Universal soldier¨ ,¨Double team¨, ¨Hard target¨), nowadays he makes low-medium budget and directly to video (¨Derailed¨ , ¨Wake of death¨ , ¨In hell¨) like in his first films (¨Black eagle¨, ¨Cyborg¨, ¨Bloodsport¨). Remaining cast though unknown make nice acting as Kevin Chapman , Ivan Kaye and special mention to Marija Karan as a beautiful whore mistreated by her pimp . This movie film results to be a standard actioner , but packs interesting main roles , atmospheric action set pieces and is fast movement . It's produced with middling budget by Van Damme and Paul Leonard ; being professionally directed by Bernie Barbarash (¨Ticking clock¨ , ¨Hardwired¨ and ¨Six bullets¨ , again with Van Damme) , though Russell Mulcahy was originally set to shoot . The picture is extremely energetic and to be liked for real devotees of main actor . It's a must see for Van Damme fans.

Good to see van damme back into action, just need to see a lot more faster action and more bone cracking spin kicking karate, but overall good movie, i give a 10 just due to i made it to the end of his movie....enjoy worth the watch, i think he needs to team up for some action/comedy with a known actor to get him back on the big screen... Looked like a well budgeted movie, and was under done with cheap shots or crappy dialogue.Van damme looking a bit older not really looking as tonned as he use to be, hopefully his next few movie he will tonne up a Little, his definitely lost weight from his last few movies,maybe he getting ready for expendables 2..