Maximillian

Well first of all, in twenty years on this site and I never wrote a review. But I will do it for this film. This piece has certainly been produced with $2 and 3 pennies. The story is not innovative. The fights are well choreographed in the sense they reminded me the fights my friends and I used to produced when I was offered my first camera. After watching them on tv we were busting in laughter, so ridiculous we looked after hours of rehearsal. The all team seemed to have a good time. It looked like they could not hide their joy of being on a set. They look like a collection of art students lucky enough to be hired for the occasion. Last thing, the sound post production is just terrible, the actors reciting their lines without life or soul. Well I had innocent fun thank to this effort but... I am afraid I will never watch it again.

These people who gave it high ratings must be family members of the cast. It's a really bad movie. The acting is 3rd rate and amateurish. The martial arts scenes were laughable, like I walked into my dojo and saw two kids sparring. The plot - well, I'll give the movie an extra star since there have been other movies that were better but with even less believable plots. Cinematography - gosh, lighting was bland, composition just run of the mill, just...meh. Roger Deakins this guy ain't. Skip this one folks.

I wonder why here is so much hate regarding this movie.. I found this movie amazing and worth watching

I could see something this bad make it into a finished product 20 years ago, but it blows my mind how this came out in 2019. Sooo bad, I couldn't finish past 30 minutes. It was torture after the first line was spoke.

I almost didn't watch this film because of the negative reviews. Some of them were so bad that they made me want to see it for myself knowing that sometimes the bad ones are entertaining just because they are so bad. This was not the case with this one. No true fan of action and the art of martial arts is overly concerned with the storyline to begin with. With that being said, the storyline was good but the action itself was great. Did the actors seem like newbies or independent film actors? Yes, but the strong fight choreography more than made up for it. Not to mention the length of some of the fight scenes. Even as novices, the performers held their own. Kudos to the fight coordinator. Hollywood has jaded audiences with their big budgets, big name actors and flashy special effects so much so that people have lost their appreciation for passionate artists who can get a solid film done on their own dime. The cinematography was definitely solid for an independent film. Without giving anything away, while their have been other films in this genere that bear similar aspects, one of the most unique concepts was the incorporation of a certain supporting character. For me it was like The Raid meets Fight Club. Were some of the special effects like the plasma swords Hollywood grade? Short answer no, but for me it almost seems as if it paid homage to sci/fi films from back in the day which as someone who appreciates nostalgia, it only added to the films appeal. Is this film worth a watch? Definitely. I would even suggest watching it more than once to get a true appreciation for it and a real sense of what the filmmaker was trying to accomplish with this piece. There were subtle things I didn't pick up on the first time that I caught the second time that helped pull everything together. Given the fact that the future of traditional Hollywood is so uncertain right now in the age of Covid-19, its a good thing that independent films and independent filmmakers like this exist. From the looks of the crew IMDb page, this film was done with very few people. Big budget films have never and will never be able to pull off the quality of films that people are accustomed to with such a small crew. With the strong possibility that independent films will be the wave of the future, Assassin's Game is a solid victory for the coming new age of independent films.