American Assassin (2017)
Genre: Action / Thriller
Duration: 112 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Michael Cuesta
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton and Taylor Kitsch
IMDb score:
6,2 (99.989)
Releasedate: 14 September 2017
American Assassin plot
"Assassins aren't born. They're made."
American Assassin follows the rise of Mitch Rapp, a recruit from a CIA Black-Ops team led by war veteran Stan Hurley. The duo are led by Director Irene Kennedy to investigate some indiscriminate attacks on both military and civilian purposes. Together, they discover a pattern that leads to a joint mission to a murderous cop.
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Actors and actresses
Mitch Rapp
Stan Hurley
'Ghost'
Annika
Irene Kennedy
Victor
Director Stansfield
Minister Behurz
General Rostami
Katrina
Reviews & comments
JacoBaco
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- 10573 messages
- 2411 votes
A bit Jason Bourne-esque, but less good. The film starts quite believable and tries to keep it up very ambitiously. However, it does get silly after a while. That's a shame, because the movie really could have competed with like I said a Jason Bourne movie. But unfortunately. Everything comes together well and it really doesn't look cheap. It's not the actors' fault either and Keaton is also doing well. It's basically all above average, but the film fails on some really stupid things. A shame, otherwise at least a 3.5.
And then Scott Adkins. Not the best actor, but come on, he's not that bad. He only has 1 or 2 lines of text and what he is really good at (fighting) he doesn't do either. Yes, 1x during a training. He really does have a really stupid side role here. Let that man do what he's good at, but that won't happen. I do not understand that. He may want a little more fame by taking on roles in movies that are watched by a much larger audience. Because I saw him in movies like Doctor Strange and Zero Dark Thirty, for example. And yes, those kinds of movies have a little more fame than a Hard Target 2.
So, a whole paragraph for Scott Adkins, because the movie doesn't do him justice.
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coumi
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- 1462 messages
- 12346 votes
Slick action film, with a messy and rather unbelievable story. Certainly not top notch, but quite entertaining, a bit comic strip level (but a very violent comic strip). Just like the action, the lyrics they put in the actors' mouths are also quite exaggerated, but don't take it too seriously, partly this is also meant to be humorous. Then you can also enjoy an idiotic, well-developed torture scene between Kitsch and Keaton, or that spectacularly intended bomb explosion at the end: all hilarious. O'Brien is quite doable in the lead: finally no above-average muscle bundle, but a man with a normal build, just real. Keaton and even villain Kitsch do a great job in their over the top contributions, that's called delivering effective work. But it's a shame that the story itself jumps from one piece to the next and then unabashedly jumps from one to the other again. One bizarre twist follows another, every now and then impossible to follow. Ideal project to finish with three stars (sufficient), that's all.
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IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
American Assassin
Nice action smasher. The best part of American Assassin is actually the lengthy opening scene with the terrorist attack on the beach, and from there develops a revenge story wrapped in a predictable 'we have to save the world from a nuclear attack' story.
The script is the film's biggest flaw, with Taylor Kitsch also failing to impress as a bad guy. But O'Brien is a sympathetic protagonist and shows that he can carry these kinds of films. Especially the interplay with a glaring Keaton (the torture scene alone) yields entertaining scenes. The pace is fast, and the action scenes are well put together and are sometimes quite hard. You don't see a scene like this with Annika (Negar), who would rather commit suicide than fall into the hands of the bad guy in these kinds of movies. Usually the good guy saves the girl... All in all, American Assassin is an action movie that does exactly what you expect it to do. Fine.
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