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.

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?

This starts off with shades of the real Tunisian beach attacks from 2015, when "Rapp" (Dylan O'Brien) and his girlfriend find themselves caught up in a shooting that ends in tragedy. Determined on revenge, he attracts the attention of the CIA with whom he ends up working before being sent to the ultimate ninja training camp under the auspices of veteran "Hurley" (Michael Keaton). Working with local intelligence, they identify their target and after a few predictably failed attempts, they are soon on the trail of the criminal who has plans of his own to exact revenge on the American imperialists. O'Brien is easy enough on the eye but the rest of this is about as derivative as it comes. Set piece action scenes ensue as day follows night, peppered with who to trust issues and the introduction of an unlikely enemy in "Ghost" (Taylor Kitsch) who has his own axe to grind with "Hurley". This is genre-fodder, and kills just short of two hours effortlessly enough (though the CGI at the end is really poor for 2017!). You are unlikely to recall it afterwards, and the plot has virtually no jeopardy so don't expect much here.

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.

_American Assassin_ might be the most nothing movie of the year. I was sold on the trailer, I though Michael Keating looked great (and to be fair, he kinda was), but watching the movie itself, I felt completely blank. I can't even recommend _American Assassin_ as background noise.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._