Good Morning Lovelies, 

Starring Michael Keaton and Dylan O’Brien, American Assassin is the action film that could have won other several generations, due to its casting. However, with failed storylines, that never seem to find a key theme, the film falls against many hurdles.

At the age of 14, Mitch Rapp (O’Brien) lost his parents in a tragic car accident, which was never really solved. Years later, horror strikes again, when just moments after proposing to his partner, she is killed right in front of him on a beach by terrorists. Unable to move on from their deaths, Mitch falls into a deep depression, leading to angry outbursts and terrifying acts of violence.

However, his acts of violence and gun training – something he began after losing his fiancé – are all to do with something he feels will get back at those who have hurt him. Infiltrating a terrorist cell and killing all the people inside. Impressed with his plan, the CIA decides to join him on his journey to help him kill those inside themselves. As they work together, the CIA decides to hire him, however, to work with them further he is forced into training with Stan Hurley, played by Keaton.

The film could have succeeded where many failed, by bringing audiences and fans of both leading men to cinema sits. However, the plot never becomes a fresh story. In fact, the story uses too many troops from classic films that make it hard to follow at times. And not because it is so confusing.

Many of the action scenes are so unbelievable that you can’t even say that no one would believe them. Fights in public places where no one tries to do or say anything, the police never being in sight and characters who walk away unharmed, yet should be carried off in ambulances, make for uneasy viewing. When you think a key plot is coming, violence and an over the top bomb storyline just gets in the way and takes it off the audience’s hands.

Overall making the film an unbelievable and silly action film, that has lost all sense of the real world, which has there so earned itself…