Release Date: Sept. 6, 2011
Price: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Jean-Claude Van Damme runs into some resistance in the form of Scott Adkins in Assassination Games.
International ass-kicker Jean-Claude Van Damme (Universal Soldier franchise) and rising star Scott Adkins (Stag Night) team up in the action thriller film Assassination Games.
In the movie, Brazil (Van Damme) is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right, while Flint (Scott Adkins) left the assassin game after a drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma.
When a contract is put out on the dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and members of the criminal underworld on their trail, the two assassins reluctantly join forces to take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
Directed by Ernie Barbarash (who helmed a bunch of moderately budgeted Sony action movies over the past couple of years, including Ticking Clock and Hardwired), Assassination Games received a tiny release to theaters in late July but was not generally reviewed, so we’re considering it a DVD premiere film.
The DVD includes a collection of deleted scenes as bonus features.
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This is wrong on several counts, first of JCVD and Scott Adkins were in the movie “The Shepard: Border Patrol” together several years ago. On July 29th, “Assassination Games” was given a limited theatrical release, so it’s not a direct-to-DVD movie. Doesn’t someone fact check these.
Hey Shawn,
You’re absolutely right about JCVD and Adkins being together in The Shepard! Haven’t seen this one, so we took Sony’s press release to heart when it appears that even THEY got it wrong. (And that’s hard to believe as The Shepard is a Sony film!)
As for it’s theatrical release, yes, it played a theater or two for a week in a couple of cities, but it was not widely reviewed by the national critics, so we’re considering it a DVD Premiere….