Review: American Assassin, More Like Jason Bland
- Sep 19, 2017
- 2 min read
With the success of the Bourne franchise, the solid revival of James Bond and the powerhouse that is Mission Impossible, pretenders and imitators were inevitable. Tom Cruise tried in Jack Reacher and failed, now it's time for an unknown and a veteran to give it their best shot.
Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) was just your average guy before a violent terror attack on a Spanish beach tore away everything he had. For the next 18 months he infiltrated the group that killed his fiance, became an expert marksman and martial artist and, finally, met with the man he had been wanting to kill for over a year. But the CIA don't like people doing their job for them so, naturally, they hire him and throw him into an assassin training course led by Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). But global terrorism waits for no man and soon enough Hurley is leading his unprepared team in a mission you'll wish you never watched.
I'll make this quick, something American Assassin didn't have the decency to do. It sucks. It's more boring than a documentary about grass, the action is as forgettable as the characters, the plot is more predictable than an episode of Sesame Street and the acting is sub-par at best.
The lead is wholly unlikable, mostly being an incompetent ass for the films 2 hour run time, Keaton seems shoe-horned in and the villain, played by the ever so dull Taylor Kitsch, is totally incompetent. At best the movie is boring, at worst it is mind numbingly dull. Lacking the intensity of Bourne, the class of Bond and the energy of Mission Impossible, it comes off as little more than a weak attempt to cash in on better films. Do yourself a favour and watch something else instead.
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