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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

If there's no other movie to watch and would like to kill a couple of hours to watch a bad film look nowhere else...this is the movie to watch. Just make sure to start using your brain again after the movie is finished (if you have patience to finish it).

The movie starts out fairly well, giving us an interesting premise of a revenge assassin film, the first 20 minutes continue on this note, just to be quickly derailed into yet another american propaganda flick, therefore completely losing its potential. This move should not be called ''American Assassin'', since there really is not that much assasination going on, so to speak, this film is more about international spying/espionage than assasinating targets. Anyways, seems like Dylan O'Brian has found a decent genre for himself, as i would not go as far as to say he was bad in this mediocre little flick, O'Brian clearly showed he is serious, when it comes to pursuing his acting career as an action movie star, eventhough the movie was quite blatant and not as witty as you would expect, he still delivered some intense, action packed moments for us to enjoy. Overall not great, a mediocre action movie to say the least, something you will surely forgot in a matter of days. Watch only when bored and do not expect clever plot/interesting or original scenes, go in expecting some mediocre fighting scenes and spying.

I don't understand, it seems getting a film made is really, really hard to do - even for the best directors/writers. So who signed this writing off? It's the most implausible film since the Bond films of the 70's, in fact it makes these Bond films look like documentaries. A decent cast, great production values, but ridiculous plot lines throughout. "Ooh, I'm gonna go online and track down a terrorist cell, then I'll meet the top guy in the first meeting. Then I'll be a maverick CIA man, in no time at all. I don't follow orders, my gut feeling is better, every time." Surely this is what 8 year old boys play out, not for big budget movie-making. This was the only film I had downloaded to my device while on a flight, I'd finished my book and read the duty-free leaflet 4 times, otherwise I wouldn't have persisted with this joke of a film.

American Assassin: Revenge thriller involving Jihadis, rogue Iranian Generals, rogue US Agents, a bereaved Dylan O'Brien and a rough grizzled CIA veteran Michael Keaton. O'Brien's fiance is killed during an Islamist attack on a holiday resort, swearing vengeance he trains for the next year and pretends to be a jihadi sympathiser with the intent of killing a leader. He is being interrogated by the islamists who are a bit suspicious of him when a Seal team bursts in and slaughters the jihadis. In spite of all of their Spy-Fi tech it was only through monitoring O'Brien that they were able to track the Islamist leader. CIA chief Sanaa Lathan then recruits O'Brien and Keaton trains him for an upcoming operation.There is much observation here, everything is on a camera/screen somewhere but not always at the right time, tracking devices don't always work, the more sophistication the more things which may go wrong. It is very much a tale of the murky smoke and mirrors of the intelligence world where strange alliances may be formed and broken. Training of O'Brien, his maverick nature and his relationship to Keaton are central to the film. Piecing together a nuclear device, getting the plutonium, trigger device and an experienced physicist also provides an interesting sequence.A competent Techno-Thriller. 7.5/10. On Netflix.