Friday, September 14, 2012

Assassination Games (2011)

Jean-Claude Van Damme is Vincent, a cold as ice assassin who has a secret luxury apartment hidden behind a wall in his tenement apartment.  When an abusive man and his girlfriend move in next door, tough as nails career hitman Vincent lets the girl stay in his place after rescuing her from a beating and finding she's locked out of her own place.

Vincent admonishes her not to touch anything and stay on the couch. But unfortunately our professional assassin forgot to close the door to his secret lair (palm smack to skull) and comes home to find her asleep in his  luxury bedding.  Instead of protecting his secret life, his heart melts as she teaches him how to pet his turtle, (that's not a euphemism).

On the other side of town, retired best assassin ever Roland cares for his comatose wife who was sexually assaulted and punched into oblivion by a drug kingpin who is due to be released from prison.

When Vincent, who has a contract to eliminate the drug lord, and Roland who is out for revenge, both blow the kill, they team up to complete the hit.

While Vincent spends the movie looking sad and walking through doors, Roland spends his time staring blankly at his brain dead wife (in what is supposed to be a display of emotion).

The concept is good and there's potential, but it falls flat as it's fairly boring.  How can it be boring when it is about two assassins and a hit?  Good question.

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