“Assassin Club” (**1/2 out of four) was a stylishly done action melodrama about a world-weary assassin (Henry Golding) who is hired by his mentor (Sam Neill) to kill 7 different people but subsequently finds that these 7 people are also assassins who have been hired to kill him and they all have to outsmart one another in a chase around the world to the death. Good of its kind, with moody direction from Camille Dellamarre and sharp dialogue from Thomas Dunn and strong intrigue although it lags a little in its second half when film ought to be peaking. Neill is excellent as usual; Noomi Rapace is wasted as a mysterious female underworld figure.

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