The movie lacks substance - which I was only expecting due to the high rating this movie has been offered here. The characters are underdeveloped, and the storyline is predictable. The movie attempts to create an air of mystery and intrigue, but fails to deliver. The characters are one-dimensional, and it is difficult to empathize with any of them. The dialogue is weak, and the movie relies heavily on its action sequences to carry it through.

Additionally, some scenes in Assassin Club defy all logic. It is difficult to suspend disbelief when some of the characters' actions or their outcomes seem improbable, if not impossible.

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 .

Based on all the wannabe critics and their 1's, and clearly ignoring the bogus 10's, and considering the very low overall rating on here and RT, I didn't expect much going into this, but still had fun watching it.

Clearly it's a B film with a bigger budget, an international production with relatively unknown filmmakers and B-list actors, yet it still managed to pull it off. The acting wasn't bad, and any abilities lacking I'm sure was due to inexperienced cast directing, such as Noomi Rapace's inconsistent, annoying and cringeworthy accent that sounded like a cross between a redneck and a European cabby.

The story itself was actually interesting and engaging, albeit poorly executed and a missed opportunity. The directing was on-point, especially for a B film, but the main problem here was the screenplay. There was too much unnecessary and gibberish dialogue, and many long, dragged out and unnecessary scenes. There were also many plot and technical issues, and some logic defying scenes, and aside from plucking in random secondary characters, there wasn't much character development. I could overlook that had there been less filler and nonsense in between the main yet clunky narrative, but the nearly 2-hour runtime simply had too much filler, and the plot trotted along too slowly for the most part. Had this film removed the filler and been trimmed down to about a 90 min runtime, I feel more people would've enjoyed it.

The cast carried their own, the cinematography, sets and locations were great, and the score surprisingly good especially for a B film. The action scenes could've been filmed better, but were still better than most B grade action films out there. It's no John Wick, but hundreds of times better than most Bruce Willis recent action films, and there were even times when it exceeded my expectations. Thus considering its big budget value, inexperienced filmmakers, and it's B-grade production, it's well deserving of a 7/10 from me.