It’s problematic when a possible franchise-launcher feels like an indifferent later entry in a series, and that is the case with “En Brazos de un Asesino” aka “In the Arms of an Assassin.” This Pan…
It’s problematic when a possible franchise-launcher feels like an indifferent later entry in a series, and that is the case with “En Brazos de un Asesino” aka “In the Arms of an Assassin.” This Pantelion release has the requisite basic elements for undemanding escapism, with attractive leads, erotic elements and ample bullet-riddled peril. But despite being based on the first of seven interlocking pulp romantic-thrillers by J.A.
Playing a character described in publicity as “one of the world’s most handsome men,” producer/co-scenarist William Levy is the subtly named Victor Faust, a globe-trotting hitman introduced walking fearlessly into the heavily guarded compound of drug lord Javier . He’s so lethally cool he susses that one of Javier’s men has a gun on him, then shoots the man dead — all without even turning around to look.
After a few shootouts, the film simply leaves behind what had appeared its principal plot engine , embarking belatedly on a new focus. Our leads are now glamorous co-conspirators in the business of meting out justice to other wealthy international bad guys, the first being an Italian hedonist . You don’t expect psychological depth from this kind of enterprise, but it’s disappointing that there isn’t more chemistry between the leads, despite a few arty sex scenes. It’s difficult to swallow that Spanish thesp Sanz’s wide-eyed heroine would so readily fall for a new captor who seldom treats her much better than the old one, let alone that she’d eventually want him to train her as an assassin, too.
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