Assassin Club

Hyper action/thriller movie about a young terrorist agent who kills people and subsequently seeking relentless revenge. Intriguing and suspenseful movie containing thrills, crosses, double-crosses, shootouts and spectacular action scenes. The plot is simple and plain, it is acceptable and passable at times; but eventually results to be predictable and delivers a 'deja vu´ sensation. The ordinary vengeance story carried out by a relentling young, who finds himself tangled in a deadly conspiracy, while attempting his redemption, but things goes wrong. An assassin, Morgan Ganes (Henry Golding who produced as well), is given a contract to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are also assassins who have been hired to kill him. Morgan was enlisted by his mysterious godfather Caldwell (Sam Neill) in a secret organization and he becomes a tough killer operative in Black Ops. Morgan has a beautiful girlfriend, Sophie (Daniela Melchior) with whom he is deeply in love and who pushes him to lead a quiet life and get married, so she gets pregnant. He wants to retire to a settled life, but Morgan is mercilessly chased by two stubborn police inspectors, Agent Vos (Noomi Rapace) and Leon (Jimmy Jean-Louis). Ganes chasing a terrorist cell, and repares to take his vengeance on the mysterious murderers responsible for previous massacre. Agent Vos having secured an invitation to meet him face to face, confronts Morgan.

'Assassin Club' contains suspense, noisy action-packed, intrigue , thrills , shootouts, twists, turns and loads of violence. The film is incredible, action starts and doesn't finish until ending title, there're several shootouts causing a horrible carnage. This is a so-so thriller with strong violence, plot twists, turns, breakneck action-packed and a finale filled with double-crosses, greed and vendetta. The plot is plain and simple, the typical contract killer who wants to get out of the dirty business but things get worse when he tries to leave his bloody past behind, an ordinary theme we have already seen much better in other films.

This Assassin Club (2023) bears certain resemblance to ¨American Assassin¨ and ¨John Wick¨, taking parts here and there. An action thriller directed by Camille Delamarre that adapts the ideas from a well-known and overused script by Thomas Dunn. What results from this unoriginal and convoluted story is all rather poor, though the idea isn't bad, but it is plenty of clichés. Henry Golding's special achievement, giving a passable work , attempting to incorporate his own personal obsessions about international terrorist organizations and producing the film too, along with co-star Noomi Rapace. Noomi Rapace has become herself an expert heroine in various thrillers, action and suspense movies, such as : Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , Rupture , Stockholm, The drop (2014) , Child 44 (2015) , Unlocked (2017) , What Happened to Monday (2017). Together with Henry Golding and Noomi Rapace showing up various nice actors completing the cast, as the film includes the following: Daniela Melchior, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Sam Neill, Anastasia Doaga, Claudio Del Falco, Gabriele Rossi, among others .

It displays a colorful cinematography by cameraman Matthew Chuang, shot on various European locations in Turín, Piazza Navona, Roma , Italy , Lisboa, Portugal, London, England. As well as thrilling and pulsing musical score by Alexandre Azaria. The motion picture was mediocrely but professionally directed by Camille Delamarre and what now ensues is generally weak and nothing new to watch here. Filmmaker Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions, Transporter legacy, The Way, Into the night, Cannes Confidential) gives the action a dance-like quality and the whole movie lasted various months for production, idea, script, casting, filming, etc. Rating: 4.5/10. Passable and acceptable, though inferior action movie. The picture will appeal to explosive action fans .

Being an unlimited viewing member I have seen most cinema releases, this film has few redeeming qualities. Henry Golding & Noomi Rapace made this an easy decision to give it a go, the trailer looked promising however, this film is like my local courier... (it fails to deliver) The direction is manic, I feel like he wanted to use every shot in the playbook! There were times I had to look away as the shots were starting to make my head hurt. And what is with Noomi's accent? Is she French? Or Southern state USA? This plot has more holes than a teabag. That being said if you don't mind spending your cash to see something mind numbing and don't care about the story or the characters then this probably the right film for you. Enjoy?

Teen Jonna is left an orphan after a masked assassin kills her father. Seven years later, assassin Morgan (Henry Golding) is working for Caldwell (Sam Neill). His target is a human trafficker, but another mystery assassin shoots him. His school teacher girlfriend Sophie (Daniela Melchior) is clueless to his real work. He's looking to retire, but Caldwell has a final contract. The new targets are six other assassins and real bad guys. Falk (Noomi Rapace) is a creepy-eyed blonde killer.

This is just another action thriller B-movie. Henry Golding doesn't really have the intensity to lead this type of movie. It tries to steer into his nice guy personality by emphasizing that his targets are all bad guys. It doesn't really seem sensible and Sam Neill is acting too suspicious. The setup is poor and the writing is generally weak. The movie has a lot of competent action, but that's all it has. It's not logical or even fun. This B-movie just lays there without anything compelling.

Sam Neil and Noomi Rapace are co-starring in supporting roles in this movie. Those 2 (once great) actors were the reason I started watching this movie. How disappointing it turned out to be...

The bad: despite the presence of these 2 (once great) actors, they both UNDER perform. Their screen presence is less than I hoped for and the real leading actor has got NO actor's charisma whatsoever.

What I feared it would be (an ordinary B-movie) turned out to be exactly that: a cheaply made copycat gangster movie that is severely lacking in any sort of thrill or suspense.

Not any good then? Some of the action scenes are solid. But those are few and even during those few action scenes lots of stupid credibility flaws made me cringe alot.

Recommended to be entirely avoided, even for Sam Neil or Noomi Rapace fans...

Average (at best) CGI, acting, script, and dialog. There are a few decent scenes but only finished watching it because I was invested enough to see how it ends (and I like Sam Neill).

One scene epitomizes the quality and logic of the movie ... the protagonist runs to and escapes in an ambulance (the scene leading to this is equally poorly done). As he is running there are at least 15 trained gunmen with automatic weapons shooting as he stops at the door of the ambulance yelling at the drive to get out, then opens the door and pulls him out. And of course nobody hits him.

As he drives off there are now at least 25 people shooting at him with automatic weapons, heavy arms, and pistols from all directions - including a trained assassin who is an expert marksman. This is a thin walled ambulance with large windows all around the driver that is hit by hundreds of rounds. Yet not a single one even comes close to hitting him, one of the oxygen tanks, or any of the other flammable items on the ambulance.

This continues as 6 or 7 vehicles chase the ambulance while continuing to fire. And they must be really bad shots because the number of holes appearing in the ambulance is only a small percentage of the number of shots fired.

While were at it - didn't anyone at all during all of this think to shoot at one of the tires?