History Film / TrueMemoirsOfAnInternationalAssassin

* FakeNationality: InUniverse, the Venezuelan President isn't even from Venezula. He's American, from San Diego, and hates ''everything'' about Venezuela: the people, the weather, the cartels, the food, ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking SOCCER]]'' ("Go [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Padres]]!"), and is extremely depressed.

Sam Larson (Creator/KevinJames) is an unassuming office worker who spends his free time writing a thriller novel about a hired killer known as "The Ghost", ''Memoirs of an International Assassin'', as a refuge from his daily grind. After completing it, he manages to get it published with an e-book company. Unfortunately, the company changes the title to '''''True''''' ''Memoirs of an International Assassin'' and markets it as a non-fiction book. Because of the book's massive success, Sam plays along with the deception - which comes back to bite him in the ass when a Venezuelan rebel leader kidnaps him and orders him to assassinate the country's corrupt president. Aided by an American DEA agent, Sofia Bolivár (Zulay Henao), and watched with amusement by two CIA agents (Creator/RobRiggle and Leonard Earl Howze), Sam has to weasel his way through the conflicting plans of several powerful people or die trying.

!This film provides examples of:

* FakeNationality: InUniverse, the Venezuelan President isn't even from Venezula. He's American, from San Diego, and hates ''everything'' about Venezuela: the people, the weather, the cartels, the food, ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking SOCCER]]'' (“Go [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Padres]]!”), and is extremely depressed.

** Finally, General Ruíz orders him to kill Masovich to take away his influence over the president. [[spoiler: He’s also plotting his own coup de tat against whoever comes out on top]].
** The two CIA guys don’t seem to have any real goal in mind other than their own amusement, though later they turn out [[spoiler:to have a vested interest in the sitting president staying in power]].

* SideBet: Cobb and Cleveland spend the movie making escalating bets on whether or not Sam survives the ordeal he's going through. It eventually reaches a year’s pay, described as “The easiest seventeen-grand I ever made!”

* BasedOnATrueStory: This trope [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie played for laughs]].

!This film provides examples of

* CIAEvilFBIGood: [[spoiler:The CIA guys turn out to be the ones keeping the Venezuelan president in office and to have killed Sofia's partner to keep him from bringing charges against him]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Venezuelan rebels, El Toro and Juan in particular. While it's unlikely that El Toro would make a much better replacement for the sitting president, Juan is more genuinely well-meaning.

* TheCameo: Katie Couric (as herself) interviews Sam twice in the movie.

** Katie Couric interviews Sam for a Yahoo! webcast.

''True Memoirs of an International Assassin'' is a 2016 action comedy Creator/{{Netflix}} original movie directed by Jeff Wadlow.

Sam Larson (Creator/KevinJames) is an unassuming office worker who spends his free time writing a thriller novel about a hired killer known as "The Ghost", ''Memoirs of an International Assassin'', as a refuge from his daily grind. After completing it, he manages to get it published with an e-book company. Unfortunately, the company changes the title to '''''True''''' ''Memoirs of an Internation Assassin'' and markets it as a non-fiction book. Because of the book's massive success, Sam plays along with the deception - which comes back to bite him in the ass when a Venezuelan rebel leader kidnaps him and orders him to assassinate the country's corrupt president. Aided by an American DEA agent, Sofia Bolivár (Zulay Henao), and watched with amusement by two CIA agents (Rob Riggle and Leonard Earl Howze), Sam has to weasel his way through the conflicting plans of several powerful people or die trying.

* ImprobableAge: No one bothers to do the math and realize that Sam is rather young to reasonably be the Ghost (given the Ghost was active in the 80's and earlier, he'd have been a teenager if he was Sam). [[spoiler: the real Ghost looks to be in his 60's or 70's, which is a much more probable age for an active agent from his time period]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: At the end, Sam convinces Juan to turn against El Toro, due to Juan living by a code of honor, while El Toro shows a complete lack of scruples, notably by hiring Sofia simply as a pretext to torture and kill her for knowing too much.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: At the end, Sam convinces Juan to turn against El Toro, due to Juan living by a code of honor, while El Toro shows a complete lack of scruples, notably by hiring Sofia simply as a pretext to torture and kill her for knowing too much.]]

Sam Larson (Creator/KevinJames) is an unassuming office worker who spends his free time writing a thriller novel about a hired killer known as "The Ghost", ''Memoirs of an International Assassin'', as a refuge from his daily grind. After completing it, he manages to get it published with an e-book company. Unfortunately, the company changes the title to '''''True''''' ''Memoirs of an Internation Assassin'' and markets it as a non-fiction book. Because of the book's massive success, Sam plays along with the deception - which comes back to bite him in the ass when a Venezuelan rebel leader kidnaps him and orders him to assassinate the country's corrupt president. Aided by an American DEA agent, Sofia Bolivár (Zulay Henao), and watched with amusement by two CIA agents (Rob Riggle and Leonard Earl Howze), Sam has to weasel his way through the plans of three people or die trying.

Sam Larson (Creator/KevinJames) is an unassuming office worker who spends his free time writing a thriller novel about a hired killer known as "The Ghost", ''Memoirs of an International Assassin'', as a refuge from his daily grind. After completing it, he manages to get it published with an e-book company. Unfortunately, the company changes the title to '''''True''' Memoirs of an Internation Assassin'' and markets it as a non-fiction book. Because of the book's massive success, Sam plays along with the deception - which comes back to bite him in the ass when a Venezuelan rebel leader kidnaps him and orders him to assassinate the country's corrupt president. Aided by an American DEA agent, Sofia Bolivár (Zulay Henao), and watched with amusement by two CIA agents (Rob Riggle and Leonard Earl Howze), Sam has to weasel his way through the plans of three people or die trying.

* ImprobableAge: No one bothers to do the math and realize that Larson is rather young to reasonably be the Ghost (given the Ghost was active in the 80's and earlier, he'd have been a teenager if he was Larson). [[spoiler: the real Ghost looks to be in his 60's or 70's, which is a much more probable age for an active agent from his time period]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: Masovich kills his servant, whom he has known since he was a child, for failing to stock up on his favorite vodka.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The President]].

** The two CIA guys don’t seem to have any real goal in mind other than their own amusement.

* FakeNationality: InUniverse, the Venezuelan President isn't even from Venezula. He's American, from San Diego, and hates ''everything'' about Venezuela: the people, the weather, the cartels, the food, ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking SOCCER]]'' (“Go [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Padres]]!”), and is extremely depressed.

* FakeNationality: InUniverse, the Venezuelan President isn't even from Venezula. He's American.

* JugglingLoadedGuns: Subverted in one scene, where Sam is working on his novel, gets stuck and starts playing around with a gun and even scratches his head with the barrel. [[spoiler:Then he fires it across the room and it turns out to just fire foam darts]].

* SideBet: Cobb and Cleveland spend the movie making bets on whether or not Sam survives the ordeal he's going through.

** Finally, General Ruíz orders him to kill Masovich to take away his influence over the president.

!Tropes

* AndHerCodeNameWasMarySue: Downplayed with the main character in Sam's novel since we don't actually hear a physical description of him, but still qualifies since during Sam's imaginings of the events in the book, he's the one doing them.

* CorrupCop: Detective Diego Garcia, who is on the take for the president.