The True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Like his mate Adam Sandler, Kevin James has ventured into making films directly for Netflix. Now that’s not necessarily an insult but so far this year Netflix’s film output hasn’t been great with The Do-over and Foreign Correspondents being rather unmemorable. Memoirs of International Assassin isn’t exactly going buck that change but at least it doesn’t plummet to the depths of Adam Sander’s The Do-over.
The basics of the plot is Kevin James plays Sam Larson, an author, who gets mistaken for an international assassin following the publishing of his fictional book which drew many parallels between the infamous assassin known as The Ghost. Sam is kidnapped by the Venezuelan rebels (led by Andy Garcia’s El Toro) fighting against the current regime and he is forced to assassinate the president of Venezuela.
Many action-comedies struggle to maintain a perfect balance by keeping the laughs consistent and the action interesting. In the case of Memoirs of International Assassin it fails to do both with any effectiveness as the film struggles to raise more than a small snicker and the story, though not exactly without merit, is mostly unengaging and messy.