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Henry Golding's new movie lands rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating

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The first critic reviews are in for Henry Golding's new film Assassin Club, and it's not good news.

The film stars Crazy Rich Asians actor Golding as Morgan Gaines, an elite assassin hired on one last job to kill seven people around the world. But he soon finds out that each of his targets are equally skilled assassins set to kill him, with Daniela Melchior, Sam Neill, Noomi Rapace and Jimmy Jean-Louis co-starring.

However, the first reviews aren't positive, with the movie receiving a rare 0% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing.

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The reviews highlighted the plot and pacing of the film as issues, relying too heavily on 'tired' action sequences and cliché chase scenes, with the dialogue also suffering as a result.

"A dull potboiler that lumbers from one European city to another as various hired killers battle it out for murky reasons," The Sunday Times review stated.

"Everyone is travelling economy, with a tatty script stuffed way down, out of shame, in their carry-on luggage," The Guardian wrote in its review of the Camille Delamarre-directed film.

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"The obvious limitation is that Delamarre remains baffled by any scene that doesn’t involve guns, cars or fisticuffs; his best guess is to screw in eight gaudy lightbulbs, go handheld and hope his actors can rescue him.

"They, however, are preoccupied with some of the most leaden dialogue ever transmitted in Dolby surround."

Meanwhile The Times' review reads: "None of it holds together. The action scenes are tedious and Golding’s permanently constipated-looking Morgan spends far too much time driving around aimlessly in his souped-up Audi, searching, presumably, for an exit out of the movie."

Assassin Club is out in cinemas now.

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