recommended

Better Late Then Never

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

*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

When corrupt Interpol agents spring a powerful drug dealer from prison and put a hefty price on his head in hopes of luring out their former #1 contract hit-man that they want dead who has a dark history with said drug dealer and another elite assassin is in the mix, you know things are about to get … complicated.Jean Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins in a film called Assassination Games and here's the rub. Its not the type of flick you're picturing in your head. Okay maybe that's a half truth. The prerequisite elements are within. Guns, death, fisticuffs, deception, etc and it gets off to a brief but predictable action start, but then slow city. Between Van Damme's detached, solitary arch of a (hit)man and Adkins broken past, there's a lot of drama and the pacing is monumentally slow. No wham, bam thank you ma'am. Its nearly two hours long.Shot down and out in Romania, much of the film's backdrop isn't visually intensive / interesting. That doesn't mean it isn't well shot however. Watched in SD, felt like HD. Acting wise, the two leads acquit themselves fine and some of the supporting cast actually stood out. The story could be more exciting and/or shorter, but as it is, Assassination Games finds itself not at the bottom of either stars resumes, but hardly at the top neither.

"Assassination Games" is the movie I'm reviewing in this movie review. This movie stars Jean- Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins. This movie came out in 2011. I believe it was some time in the last quarter of 2011. I happen to watch this movie on Netflix. I don't think this movie came out in the movie theater. When I saw the previews for it and saw that Van Damme was in the movie I was eager to see it. Judging from the previews it looked like the makings of a descent film.This movie is about two of the world's greatest assassins that don't know each other, but work together to achieve both of their personal goals.This was very good film to me. This film had a good plot. This film had a good story and the execution was on point with the film. The action was good and it was enough to fit this type of film. I felt like that was important. Lots of movies that are consider action movies have a problem with not putting enough or the right amount of action in the film. This film doesn't have that problem. The fight scenes were very good and believable. There's this one scene in the movie were the assassins are trying to kill the same guy and they bump heads. (didn't know each other at time) I thought that was pretty cool. Their mistakes on both of their behalf's were do to the fact that they were both excellent at what they did. You have to keep in mind (while watching the film) that this is an "assassination movie," not transformers. All in all, this was a descent film.A can't really say anything bad about this film. Don't expect Oscars acting performances either. As a fan of Van Damme, it was nice to see him in a movie again.My final rating for this film is going to be an 8 out of 10. Solid film, very good execution and is well deserving of it high score. If you have a couple of hours to burn and you like these kinds of movies, you have blessing to see this one. You won't be disappointed. Currently, this film is on Netflix, so watch it on there of course, but if I see this film in the movie store for fewer than ten dollars. I'm going to purchase it.

Just finished this movie on the Netflix. On paper, "Assassination Games" had all the ingredients of being a fairly decent entertainer - Van Damme, mafia, interpol, 2nd assassin - but on screen it is NOT.Someone (director? Producer ?) didn't want to make just an action movie.. they decided to add "depth" to a low budget action movie! So they shot the movie in sepia. They try to give "character" to the entire cast. VanDamme is a violin playing assassin - really ? And it takes the good-hearted prostitute 5 meetings to get him to bed (without adding any sexual tension in the process the director might be hoping for). None of this adds to film in anyway.. just makes it longer than it needs to be. The action scenes are so pathetic that you see better action in TV nowadays. A very direction-less film, trying desperately to sell movie using any device they could fit in.I heard they just had a 4million budget to work with - which explains some shortcuts. But why did they spent it on adding pointless minutes is beyond me ? I am being generous when I give it at 5 rating. I would have been really disappointed if I had paid specifically for this movie to watch it.