"Sam Larson" (Kevin James) is an aspiring writer who desperately wants to have a spy novel he is working on to get published. Although he has a vivid imagination he depends on a friend named "Amos" (Ron Rifkin) to give him inspiration for his book due to the fact that Amos once worked as a clerk for the Israeli intelligence service and has plenty of knowledge on the subject of espionage. Then one day Amos tells him a story which so excites Sam that he immediately puts every detail down in his book even though Amos had sworn him to secrecy. However, no sooner does his book hit the internet then Sam is abducted by a Venezuelan revolutionary named "El Toro" (Andy Garcia) who believes him to be an infamous assassin known as "the Ghost" and orders him to kill the President of Venezuela. To make matters even worse, he is subsequently abducted by a Russian narcotics dealer named "Anton Masovich" (Andrew Howard) who instructs him to kill El Toro. Not long after that he is abducted once again by a general loyal to the Venezuelan President who demands that he kill Anton. And all three men mean business. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a decent comedy which contained plenty of action from start to finish. Although the acting wasn't great by any means, the plot had several twists and turns along the way which kept things interesting for the most part. Likewise, having a beautiful actress like Zulay Henao certainly didn't hurt either. In short, this was a somewhat entertaining film which I believe some viewers may enjoy and all things considered I rate it as slightly above average.

I saw the ad, liked the idea and started Netflix a few minutes later. In recent years, there were quite some movies with the same basic setting that stood out and were fun to watch, e.g. "The Man Who Knew Too Little" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_49).Unfortunately this movie will not become one to be remembered in a few years to come. It is an example of a streamlined, mass-production Hollywood blueprint without any surprises: Everyone with just basic knowledge of movies could easily predict what would happen next. It clearly had budget and the actors are good, but the story was - even with all these action scenes - rather slow and couldn't gain speed.On top of that, this movie cannot decide whether it's a comedy or an action movie. People will get shot or killed otherwise throughout the movie quite explicitly (sometimes even with rather large sprays of blood), preventing it clearly from being suitable to minors. (Especially since killing of - even decent! - people is shown as nothing of great value.)To state it clearly: If I would have had to pay admission for this, I would have been upset. Since it came with my Netflix package without extra charge, I was only slightly bored. Bottom line: 100% average in all aspects, keep it on the long list for a long winter evening...

I managed to see this Netflix original comedy starring Kevin James over the long Thanksgiving weekend, and this is pretty much what you would expect -- another in the long line of Sandler-esque comedies starring either James, David Spade or Adam Sandler himself. KJ plays a wannabe Ian Fleming who's digital novel, after a little mistaken identity situation, becomes a reality, and the hilarity ensues. I had heard AS had a 4-picture deal at Netflix, and thought this may have been one of them as a producer, but don't see his name anyplace on this. I think Kevin James is back where he does his best work TBH, on a network sitcom -- "Kevin Can Wait", which is a pretty funny show; as I mentioned in a post earlier, pretty much "King of Queens, Part Deux"... LOL As for this movie, if you generally like his previous work, and the other works in the Sandler-produced long line of mediocre comedies, I think you'll like this.

So I decided to waste an hour and thirty minutes of my life on Netflix's newest film courtesy of their deal with Adam Sandler to put out six "original" movies, the first two being "The Ridiculous Six" and "The Do-Over", which haven't garnered a warm exception from critics but did very well with Netflix's audience, so now here we are with "True Memoirs of an International Assassin", and surprisingly it ain't too bad, it's definitely not good, solid, nor decent but it's a step up from the other two films, probably because Adam Sandler is nowhere to be seen. The direction from Jeff Wadlow is decent, the editing is surprisingly really good, and Kevin James is not a bad actor, but this is nothing more than an average, cliché action comedy that mostly falls flat on its face, it's a bit of a shame though because the premise is an interesting one that could have been done better with a more focused team behind the scenes.