I like how the film started like I thought Assassination Game is literally a game like the film, "the tournament". But it really doesn't work out for me. The film is just so usual as a point of view of an assassin to kill a target, the only thing that is unique with the film is, two assassins were turned partners; plot to assassinate a gangster and other government official who had previously left with an unfinished business among the two assassin.Assassination game is terribly made, bad lighting that should not incorporate with, because it looks over exposed, too many cliche's scene, and should have ended with the first half of the movie.

Roland Flint (Scott Adkins) takes a job to kill the recently released drug lord Polo Yakur who put his wife in a coma. Just as he is about to take the killshot, he's interrupted by assassin-for-hire Vincent Brazil (Jean-Claude Van Damme). They both fail in their attempts and reluctantly join forces against corrupt Interpol agents to hunt down their elusive target.Ernie Barbarash is very much a B-movie director. The start is too disjointed trying to get the movie going. The movie improves once the two guys team up. They are able to develop a little bit of chemistry. Adkins is a bit stiff but Van Damme has a small amount of fun. Van Damme has that faded star quality and would make for a good villain. This is not that bad but it doesn't exceed its B-movie DNA.

Despite this movie being a cheap straight to DVD action movie, I really wanted to like it. Mainly because it has Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins in it. Plus I was really in the mood for an action movie. The plot is so generic and has been done better, about two guys who are good at what they do teaming up plot-line. Yes, it's been done but much better. And the fight sequence between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins is just super weak. That has to do with Van Damme getting old, but man it was weak. The dialogue is super cheesy and the dialogue is equally bad. I wanted to see some cool fight sequences but it even lacked in that department. Even the action was so freaking cheesy and has been done before, if you have seen a few action movies. Chances are you will see the same or similar parts in this one. The execution was even poor. Plus this isn't one of those movies you can roast with a group of friend either. Just pass on this one even if it has Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins in it, which was the main reason I saw it in the first place. There is so many noticeable plot-holes in this that it's just ridiculous. The bad guys are super idiots and the assassins makes choices that just doesn't make any sense.3/10

A small handful of better than average action sequences highlight an otherwise generic and trite tale of two assassins with different tactics and end goals searching for whomever set them up. Van Damme fans would be much better off watching JCVD for a good latter- day Damme flick. As he performance in here is good, but the movie is mundanely average at best. There's also a prostitute sub-plot that's admittedly pretty awful. As the movie wore on I found myself less and less interested in a film hat I couldn't help but believe I saw before in minor variations in the past. And better, in all honesty.My Grade: C-