Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
Assassination Games is a fairly standard direct-to-video action thriller pairing Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins. The plot hits familiar beats — revenge, reluctant partnership, corrupt agents — without much originality or depth. Acting is serviceable but unremarkable beyond the physical performances; Van Damme coasts and Adkins is competent but underwritten. Cinematography is modestly above average for its budget tier, with some decent framing and a gritty European location aesthetic. Novelty is low — the premise is thoroughly recycled from dozens of similar assassin-partnership thrillers. The ending resolves predictably without memorable payoff.