Widescreen Online Review Plus: Netflix's True Memoirs of an International Assassin This November

Friday, October 28, 2016

Netflix's True Memoirs of an International Assassin This November

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Memoirs of an International Assassin

The story: courtesy of Netflix Media

Inside every average guy, there’s an action hero dying to get out. Yet
when aspiring author Sam Larson’s fantasy life crashes into his everyday life,
he learns the hard way that there are no re-writes in the real world. With his
life on the line, Sam is forced to channel his fictitious alter ego to beat the
bad guys and become the hero of his own story.

In True Memoirs of an
International Assassin, Kevin James shows audiences a side of his persona
they’ve never seen before. James — whose comedy kingdom includes TV (“The King
of Queens,” “Kevin Can Wait”), movies (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Grown-Ups,”
“Pixels”) and the standup stage – plays mild-mannered accountant Sam Larson, a
wannabe author aiming to make the best-seller list. His imagination is bigger than
his cubicle can contain, and his research into the espionage world includes
deep background from a former Mossad agent (Ron Rifkin).

When he writes an adventure novel called Memoirs of an International Assassin, his millennial e-publisher
(Kelen Coleman) adds the word “True,” labeling Sam’s book as non-fiction in an
effort to goose sales. Mistaken for an actual assassin, Sam is kidnapped and
taken out of the country, where violent revolutionaries, a Russian crime lord
and CIA operatives assume he is “The Ghost” — the stone-cold, highly skilled,
gun-for-hire from his book. Sam isn’t The Ghost — but if he wants to survive,
he better learn to be -- FAST.

“Sam is a dreamer, who has his dream handed to him, but it isn’t exactly
the way he wanted it,” says director and writer Jeff Wadlow (“Kick-Ass 2”).
“It’s scary, and it freaks him out. But to see a guy become the hero he’s
always fantasized himself as is why we go to the movies. Who doesn’t want to
see someone they care about live his dream?”