American Assassin

An okay action thriller with the potential of being much better.

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Michael Keaton is fascinatingly gruff in what feels like a retread of old Tom Clancy adaptations.

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American Assassin is a sillier and duller Jason Bourne.

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Even when logic goes up in flames, the film speeds ahead like a heat-seeking missile.

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"American Assassin" is an action film, a spy thriller, a meditation on revenge, and a story about mentors and pupils, but mostly it's a movie that loves to maim and kill people and is very good at it.

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The movie, directed by Michael Cuesta from a script by a team of blue-chip writers (Stephen Schiff and Michael Finch are credited, along with Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz), shows more skill than personality.

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Recruited to an elite black ops unit, self-trained agent Mitch Rapp (O’Brien) is soon sent into the field to track down stolen plutonium and prevent Islamic terrorists starting a holy war.

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Is there room in a world already defended by the likes of James Bond and Jason Bourne for pulp counter-terrorism hero Mitch Rapp?

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Despite the actors hired to deliver the story, the superassassin of “American Assassin” isn’t quite human. He’s just revenge in a henley T.

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Michael Keaton's cynical, sadistic thriller is about as much fun as an angry wasp.

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Michael Keaton plays an Aviator-sporting ex-Navy Seal in this risible attempt to blend counterterrorism manoeuvres with The Hunger Games.

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