How can an action movie be so boring. By filling it with almost every cliche in the book and making me not care for any of the characters. It had a few moments where it had my interest, like the opening beach scene, but that was almost all due to the shock value. I did not realize this was R.
Better than other reviewers made it out to be. Enough unique elements to not blur in with other action movies.
It wasn't supposed to be a slow and boring movie; i think we all expect from this movie to have a good story (at least decent) and good action scenes. Well, this movie doesn't have any of those things.
Not everyone should be able to make movies
I kept falling asleep during this movie. Took me 4 hours to get through it. I felt like killing myself! The first 15 minutes was interesting and went downhill afterwards. Very cliche. You can predict the entire movie. Very disappointing. Glad it’s over.
Fantastic movie!! It makes your eyes glued to screen for the whole time. Superb real life action. A movie worth to watch. So take out your popcorn and go for it.
Wow, quite brutal at times, but a good movie tbh.
That shooting at the beginning was so unexpected and brutal. Really shows the horror of such a situation! I was expecting something bad to happen but not that there would be such a mass shooting. It started so suddenly and resulted in immediate chaos.
They both should've ran though. Their chances would've been so much better than when looking/searching for one another during the shooting. I hope love doesn't make one so shortsighted. I'd definitely fear surviving alone though - that would suck. But it would still be the right/best decision to run.
That scene of the physicist in the trunk, the gasoline, and the cigarette was "funny" (horrible but kind funny in a stupid way).
Not as funny as the fake manual shifting in that automatic Alfa Rome though xD That was quite amusing somehow :)
Annika shooting herself like that (wow!) was just dumb. She might want to die first but she could've at least taken down the bad guy first. But then again that would've been an abrupt ending of the movie :D
I did like the ending. I really enjoyed the concept of letting the bomb explode (which is cool/fasciniating - as long as it isn't real) without the casualties (or at lest very few or just minor injuries).
But the explosion didn't seem that realistic (especially the implosion at the beginning - shouldn't that be at the end after the explosion?). Anyway, still fascinating!
The last scene was consing though. I guess he's undercover there? I didn't get the message of it. I guess he's fighting "bad guys" in general now?
NOT A SPY MOVIE, like other reviewers have said, it is full of cliche to the point where you know how scenes will develop. I would just add to this the whole "one man army" syndrome, which is really disturbing when you take it at face value, and instead of making you think about the concept of vengeance in a modern society, you go along for a not so much emotional rampage among unnoticeable civilians. This could have worked 10-20 years ago. In today world? not so much.
Sure it's full of cliches. Yet I was glued to the screen throughout. Dylan O'Brian was surprisingly solid.
quite an interesting movie to watch
Much better than expected - worth taking the time to watch
Great action movie! Highly recommend it.
Wonderful acting. Amazing stunts. They pushed the envelope when it came to typical gun play on a spy movie.
The writing/pacing was straight garbage. It was rushed & over the top ridiculous . It was like they had a list of crappy cliche plot points they were trying to hit rather than make an enjoyable movie.
I’m really surprised at some of the comments on this movie. Have actually had it in my collection for many years but never quite got around to it until today.
I agree there’s nothing groundbreaking but I certainly didn’t find it slow or boring.
A high-octane action movie that delivers a satisfying blend of thrills and intelligent plotting. The action in the film is impressive and well-choreographed, with a number of intense fight scenes and thrilling shootouts. The film's fast pace and high energy keep you engaged throughout, making for an exciting movie experience. The plot is also a highlight of the film, with an intriguing storyline that keeps the audience guessing until the very end.
The casting for this was bad enough, but add in the mouth-breathing dialogue, and it's astonishing that it took five so-called screenwriters to put this garbage on a waste of good paper. The premise alone made this venture pointless; Middle-Eastern terrorists show up at a beachside vacation spot, and begin indiscriminately shooting people? This may be the single dumbest premise I've ever seen in a major motion picture. This was made-for-broadcast-television bad. Actually, in fact, it was worse than that.
Didn’t care about the main character at all.....it was an alright film
What's new in this movie.
Nothing just common story
Wonder if they thought, "Let's see how many clichés we can fit into out movie.". Found it very Meh!
Do yourselves a favor and skip this one. Truly awful. Very boring and slow paced with unlikable characters all around.
Excruciating film. As is kept playing, I couldn’t wait for it to end. It was like waiting in a line for ten hours on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I am thankful it is over. I kept thinking about how the decision was made to make this film, and how people agreed, somehow, to actually make it happen. That disturbs me...
For an action movie, it wasn't as thrilling to watch like it should've been or as thrilling as you'd expect. I'm not sure whether to consider that a bad thing or a good thing. The whole plot after what happened in regards to what changed Mitch was pretty subpar. It could've been because of the writing, and that's to blame. Maybe there was a similar plot in one of the books, but I'm sure it was done a whole lot better. Orion, a special, secret team of "Ghosts" was probably the only thing that was actually interesting, yet that wasn't further expanded on. There were a couple of cool moves as far as the fighting goes, but the choreography overall wasn't that good and the sound effects only made it worse. And the last fight sequence was the worse possible combination of the two. It was acted and choreographed in a way that made each attack look like it was hard, except the volume of the sound effects was set so low, for whatever reason, which took the immersion out of the fight, provided you were even immersed in it, to begin with. I'm a fan of Dylan O'Brien even though Teen Wolf is the only show/movie I've watched that he's in, but for this is be his second major movie, the first Maze Runner movie being the first and the rest excluded, being the main actor of, is disappointing.
I like so much!
Dylan O'brien is a amazing actor
Uh huh huh huh.. you said ass ass in...yeah!!! yeah!!! Asssssss assssss....shutup dillhole!!!
Action packed, thrilling and immensely entertaining. I enjoyed watching Dylan O'brien in a setting that actually leant to him showing off his acting skills. Not to mention he left Teen Wolf and turned into a whole SNACK. My first experience with Michael Keaton was a family Christmas movie but he plays intimidating hard ass oh so well. There were so many action scenes that I had to rewind because they were too good and that opening scene....jaw.on.The.floor.
The film begins well, with a brutally efficient opening scene. Sadly, it then leads nowhere particularly original, and it lost my interest well before the halfway mark.
AKA The John Wick Identity Supremacy (and if you've seen either of those franchises, you've already seen this film)
Pros: It had lots of action and not a lot of romance.
Cons: The action was hackneyed and the fight scenes were so badly choreographed that the director had to hide them behind quick cuts and blur effects.
I have a high tolerance for boring movies. Especially when the movie has a handsome lead. But this was too much even for me.
The first few minutes were shocking! More violent than I expected but set the tone for an action packed revenge movie. Then it slowly went downhill to the point I stopped watching. My husband, who does not fancy Dyan O’Brien but DOES love action movies lasted a bit longer than me.
DNF. Don’t even care to google the end. It was boring.
(912-word review) I watched this in December 2017, a month after its release, and again in August 2019. The first time was when I watched shows and films without writing anything about it, for the most part, since there's a whopping total of three "reviews" (more like one sentence) that I posted on Trakt in 2017. But, from 2018 to 2020, they improved to a few more sentences: not to "actual" reviews yet; that started at the end of 2020. March 2022 is when they became "efficient" in my eyes.
My point is this: I "reviewed" (https://trakt.tv/comments/248054) this film in 2019, and while my "review" was "better" than the ones in 2018-2019, that was only in the form of having a few more sentences; it was still pretty terrible.
The overall summary of it is that I thought it was underwhelming for an action film, that the fight choreography wasn't that good (and that the sound effects were way worse), and that I may've considered Dylan O'Brien's performance slightly subpar (that part is iffy because I wasn't clear enough with that part of my "review" for the present me to be 100% on the same page).
Now, with a broader scope of looking at television and cinema, particularly the mindset of writing proper reviews/my thoughts, there was barely any change concerning my feelings this time. I feel the same way regarding those things, give or take.
This film had an apparent lack of excitement behind it, contradicting the necessary and expected essence of action films. The fight choreography was so-so, with decent enough (but not good enough) editing (at times), and the sound effects were dreadful; the fact that they got through to the final product is embarrassing.
And Dylan O'Brien's performance, likely contrary to what his fans thought/think, especially the hardcore ones, aka the stans, wasn't "noteworthy." The way it looks, he doesn't fit the profile for a role like this; the lackluster writing didn't do him any favors, though.
He's not terrible, but overall, he isn't A-Lister material – yet; that may change eventually – like his fans have made themselves believe, and the parasocial relationship many of them have "with him" is – well, hilarious. There, I said it. Do you have your pitchforks at the ready? ("B-but, h-he was S-shirtLess!!! H-he wa-s SOOOO MAnlY!!!! A-aNND RIPPeD AND RUGGED!?? U KNOW!!!? OMGGG!*& hsakhahadhp HOW DARRRRREE U!???!?)
While the first hour was serviceable at best, making you wish it was a tiny bit better at the very least, the rest of the film was less so – and, to tell you the truth, I'm not sure why; it felt less so, and I don't care enough to rack my brain trying to grasp why.
I also didn't care about the sidebar attempt at implanting character depth (for both characters) so far into the story through this weird dynamic with Mitch and Annika that comes across as stereotypical-female-character = love interest that must be mandatory at this point in the film industry, yet somehow self-aware that it's bad writing at the same time – but the writers didn't follow through with it, so everything's good! Why insert that expectation in the first place by ALMOST doing it? To NOT do it? Uh, okay. It was "there for appearances' sake."
In actuality, the best was before an hour. Everything up to Mitch's training completion was the best, followed by what came after, up to 'the death.' The serviceableness continued after that briefly, but that was the start of the "downfall." Criminal misuse of Scott Adkins – he didn't even have a spotlight for his martial arts prowess – but why cast him in the first place? With someone like him, why would you not utilize his capabilities? Tragic.
On top of that, Ronnie 'Ghost' Kitsch was such a snooze-worthy antagonist – not to mention torturing someone right next to the nuke for Stan to follow along with the plot (he's one of us, you guys! Awww!). Diabolical! Innovative! Top-Tier Antagonist! Sorry, I meant to say dumb: antagonist and the writing.
He was even tough to dislike – no, I'm not saying he was likable – as is the intention with antagonists: being dislikable. Instead, he was so dull. If you're having trouble falling asleep at night, look no further; your solution is right here.
Also, what was up with the car explosion? Don't get me wrong – I know the "point" was so Irene would know their location to then send the plot device (other known as a helicopter) to Stan for him to deliver this SHOCKING order to 'Awww, he's dense' Mitch – "Throw the bomb overboard!" – but I don't think the cause made much sense.
The most significant props I can give are to, 1.) Steven Price, the composer, whose score was good. It immediately brought Brian Tyler to my mind because it sounded similar to his work for the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in 2011 – and 2.) Michael Keaton, whose performance was undoubtedly the best one, but it ventured somewhat into comic buffoonery with the torture scene.
On a lesser level, one part of Michael Cuesta's direction was good in the form of particular shots, and so were bits and pieces of Enrique Chediak's cinematography, helped by the work of the location managers.
As per the course of peak cinema, all you need are four writers (!?) and Dylan O'Brien, whose only purpose is to look rugged and be shirtless a few times for the villainy cabal of stans.
Great movie. Book series was even better. Sad the author died of cancer
Crazy brutal movie. If you loose someone. The emptyness gonna fuck your brain up. Revenge is not the way imma be real honest with yall for real for real. Action movie with out Bruce Willis shame on you Mr. Director.
Dylan O'Brien managed to be both totally unconvincing and completely unlikable in his part. Quite a feat!
I'll never understand how anyone thought this scrawny ass who looks bummed over failing a boyband audition he even get a special haircut for could work as an action hero.
did not finish watching because it was late, but looks like OK movie ...
If I'm inclined to be on my phone more than I am to paying attention, it's probably not the greatest action movie. However, I didn't hate it. I think it can be a good Sunday movie for when you want to watch something that doesn't demand too much of you as a viewer.
It’s definitely not the worst movie I ever saw and it does have some good action scenes.
It’s something to watch when there’s nothing else to watch.
.. I'm thinking about going back to my review of Savagas (2012) to give it one rating point more, because this movie here was worse than that.
This movie has been sitting on my unwatched shelf for quite a while and yesterday I finally got around to watch it.
I actually found this movie to be not too bad actually. It is far from a cinematic masterpiece but it is a pretty solid action/revenge movie. Dylan O’Brien is, unfortunately, pretty meh as the main character. Michael Keaton on the other hand is quite good in his character.
It is a reasonably action filled movie and I really like that they didn’t try to turn it into some PG-13 crap. It is sometimes fairly brutal. The story is okay. It works. It is not overly complex and some people are probably moaning about it not being original enough. Well, I say, so what? It is a good concept so why screw with it? I do like revenge movies and although this one is far from the best, it is not at all shabby.
I wonder why some people seems to be claiming that this movie is just crap, one star out of ten and so on and so forth? Is it maybe because it dares bring up the subject of Islamist fanatics killing innocents? Or maybe because it doesn’t try to sugarcoat things and explain these “poor misunderstood” psychopaths but lays the blame straight on said lowlife as well as on Iran? Or maybe because it doesn’t try to blame certain of today’s political retards’ preferred boogieman Russia?
I have not read the book so I guess, if it doesn’t do the book justice, I can somewhat understand not liking it. However, to me, this was a decent, not spectacular but decent, two hours of entertainment. Decent action, decent speed and (with the exception of O’Brien) decent acting.
OMG what a terrible ending. Started so well and went downhill from there.
Just your average fast pace action packed film with a good cast that I enjoyed. I hope to see more from Dyan O'brien XD
'American Assassin' is extremely uneven, especially tackling it's "gritty" approach to politics. So lifeless in fact, even Michael Keaton knows there's better roles out there and saves his talents for something better.
However, it dose have some interesting action sequences and decent looking shots. So the technical side of things stops this from being flat out bad.
Dylan O'Brien, on the other side, is at least trying his best from what he's given. Slowly building himself to be a action star or a strong leading man, if he continues this path.
It's not big thing, but it has action and it's entertaining, to see once it's worth
It's a decently made action/spy/thriller with some cool sequences that have bite, but overall it's fairly generic. Nothing very stand-out. I can't see this actually launching a franchise...
This movie was a total disappointment. I’ve read all of Vince Flynn’s books and this was a very poor attempt to compress all of the book into one movie. Mitch Rapp, the main character in the book took a back seat to Stan Hurley played by Michael Keaton... and I would bet that was by design during casting. I really hope that another Director and film company will pick up on the Mitch Rapp story and do it justice. If done correctly, it would be up there with Marvel and DC movies.
This movie was a total disappointment. I’ve read all of Vince Flynn’s books and this was a very poor attempt to compress all of the book into one movie. Mitch Rapp, the main character in the book took a back seat to Stan Hurley played by Michael Keaton... and I would bet that was by design during casting. I really hope that another Director and film company will pick up on the Mitch Rapp story and do it justice. If done correctly, it would be up there with Marvel and DC movies.
i didn't get the movie i was looking for.shame. but i rated it 7 for Dylan path and how he is seeing it, so there's that. hopefully he'll step it up in the near future.
Did anyone else think, fat cobra at anytime during the movie?
I gotta admit I liked it for what it was. The title American Assassin is a terrible name for a movie and Sanaa Lathan continues to make everything she is in worse than it needs to be. But the movie features a strong Michael Keaton and decent acting by Dylan O’Brien who I admit have never heard of before and Taylor Kitsch aka Tim Riggins. No the story was not great but the action scenes - gunplay as well as hand to hand combat - were above average and the consequences of a nuclear explosion under water was something I have not seen before in any movie. I’d give this a 7 out of 10.
It was an OK movie. At least there wasn't a Magical Cure-all VaginaTM.
Shout by RobertoBlockedParent2022-01-12T21:02:10Z
Fine action movie, more then ten kills in first 10 minutes and a main character which is well trained. We need more of this in 2022+