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"You think you're a good man, don't you, Morgan?" Paramount has revealed an official US trailer for the action movie Assassin Club, which will be skipping theaters and debuting on VOD in May. This recently opened in UK cinemas this month, and it already played in a few other countries including Italy and Israel, but they're dropping it at home right away in the US. It doesn't look that great, which is why this all makes sense. This plot sounds like something we've seen many times before: An assassin is given a contract to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are also assassins who have been hired to kill him. Starring Henry Golding as Morgan, Daniela Melchior, Noomi Rapace, Sam Neill, Claudio Del Falco, with Jimmy Jean-Louis and Anastasia Doaga. There's not really any impressive glimpses in this trailer, and even the action seems rather dull.

Stars: Henry Golding, Sam Neill, Noomi Rapace, Daniela Melchior, Claudio Del Falco, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Anastasia Doaga | Written by Thomas Dunn | Directed by Camille Delamarre

Henry Golding and Noomi Rapace headline this hitman mystery thriller from director Camille Delamarre. Sadly, Assassin Club isn’t going to do either of them any favours and the only mystery about it is how it got made in the first place.

Golding plays Morgan, one of those international assassins who’s quite happy to murder for a living, as long as his targets are certifiable bad guys like drug lords or sex traffickers. He receives his orders from Caldwell (Sam Neill), his handler-slash-mentor, and otherwise enjoys a quiet life with his girlfriend Sophie (Daniela Melchior), a primary school teacher who remains blissfully ignorant of his extra-curricular activities. However, all that changes when Morgan accepts a contract to take out seven international assassins, only to discover...